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12/07/2016
Location: Geldsteen
Water Temperature: 15..1’C + 15.0’C
Depth: 17.2m + 17.0m
Visibility: 5.0m + 5.0m
Number of Sharks: 12 + 11
Conditions: Clearing cloud coverage with a slight wind making for choppy conditons.
A overcast morning today however it wasn’t long till the clouds started to clear and the sun started to shine through. We had a shark not too long after arrival with a juvenile male arriving, however he did not seem too keen to stick around yet this shark was replaced by a much larger female, whilst we wereimpressed by her size she too did not stick around. It wasn’t until our third shark that we got one willing to hang around, with a small juvenile we have been seeing recently turning up and staying with us for the majority of the trip. We were also graced with the presence of some of our well known sharks including two of our recently adopted and monitored males “Dave” and “Bruce”, one of our acoustically tagged sharks and also a male shark known as “Poseidon” who between 2012 and the start of 2015 had a satellite tagged set into its’ dorsal fin as attached by Ocearch, more information on this shark can be found here.
The second trip of the day launched and headed straight back into the Geldsteen where we found two shark cruising alone the surface. Many of the sharks we saw on the previous trip were resighted on this trip with the addition of a large female known as “Ingrid” a shark we have been monitored since 2014, she has a very interesting past in which you can read more here. We also had a very interesting arrival during our fourth and last cage in the form of a very dark coloured smaller male that was happy to come nice and close to us and gave us the chance of a closer look at what appears to be wound on its’ right side from the fifth gill slit down and under the pectoral fin onto its’ underbelly. We hope to see this shark again so to give us a chance to monitor this injury. Towards the end of the trip we also spotted a small group of Cape Fur seals making their way towards us, they moved towards the back of the boat and appeared to be in the clear when BAM…an attempt predation from a White shark, from a distance it looked as if there is one very lucky seal that manae to escape becoming lunch for a White shark!
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