SHARK NEWS

On Saturday the 16th of September, White Shark Projects’ Crew and Volunteers were joined by Gansbaai Tourism, La Pentola Crew, Gansbaai locals and the Cape United Soccer Team to clean up the coastal town of Gansbaai. For this year’s International Coastal Clean-Up Day, we decided to focus on prevention and chose to clean the town centre of Gansbaai, preventing all the litter from blowing into [...]

Responsibly Green: Eco-Tourism. Responsible Tourism. Sustainable Tourism. We’ve all heard the lingo, but do we know, or more frankly, do we care what it means? In short, responsible tourism is about creating better places to live in and better places to visit. The order of that sentence is key though. Its purpose is to educate the traveller on various levels; [...]

White Shark Projects featured on InfoHub.com + GIVEAWAY!!! Dear friends! Today we are thrilled to announce that one of our projects – White Shark Volunteer Project – has been chosen as an Unordinary Trip of the Month by InfoHub.com , the #1 travel portal on the Internet specializing in the out-of-ordinary , special interest vacations. Although it might seem a bit unusual for a volunteering project to be featured as [...]

I’ve just read an article in a local South African newspaper, which at first made me smile so broadly with delight but then, a few paragraphs later, made me fall into a deep despair. Allow me to explain my bipolar-like reaction to this article: The heading reads: “Plan in place to safeguard our whales” and the article kicks off with [...]

What a great day at the White Shark Projects! All of us volunteers went on the boat and shared this wonderful trip. It all started with a sighting of a Humpback Dolphin whilst getting the anchor and wetsuits ready at the bow. It was a brief sighting, as we only saw the back twice before it was gone, but it [...]

Sharks as Apex predators play an important role in the health of our oceans. A recent study conducted by the University of Western Australia, highlights yet another important impact sharks have on their ecosystems. So, we are all aware of the role sharks play in protecting seagrass beds, corals and shellfish populations by controlling or influencing the behaviour of turtles, [...]

While nearly half of the world's human population lives within 50 miles of a coast, all of us depend on the ocean and the resources it provides, whether it be for the food we eat or the oxygen we breathe. The ocean provides invaluable benefits and services: Here without any further ado, is the top 10: Food: More than 3.5 [...]

  Since the 31st of August, we’ve had the pleasure of diving with Bronze Whaler Sharks, also known as Copper Sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus). Even though Bronze Whalers frequent our waters, when we have Great White Sharks hanging around the boat, we don’t normally see the Bronze Whalers at all – they prefer to stay clear of the bigger fellas. Due to [...]

  Photograph of abalone (Haliotis midae) – Photo © Rob Tarr ǀ aquarium.co.za If you get a chance to visit the beautiful fishing village of Gansbaai you may notice one of the most common words here is “abalone”. When I first came to South Africa over 7 years ago I wasn’t really sure what an abalone was. So [...]