SHARK NEWS

Who better than to bring this years 21 Days for the Ocean 2019 celebrations to a close than White Shark Projects Managing Director, Charmaine Beukes? Charmaine started 21 Days for the Ocean in 2014 with a vision to spread ocean awareness and optimism not only throughout the Overstrand area, bit also internationally. Thank you so much to everyone [...]

This month, White Shark Projects hosted our annual blue initiative campaign, 21 Days for the Ocean. Since 2014, we have been spreading ocean optimism and awareness not just in our local communities in the Overstrand, but also globally. Our 2019 theme was ‘The Ocean in Us’. Every one of us is connected to the ocean in some way – whether [...]

You can’t get around it these days, plastic is everywhere. There are many articles telling you about how harmful plastic can be for this planet. But what can you actually do to make a change? Below is information on just 8 easy ways you can reduce plastic usage in your daily lives. Remember, your effort to reduce plastic doesn’t have [...]

The lateral line is an important determinant of detecting prey, current speed and direction, providing useful information to fishes that live in streams or where tidal flows dominate. The lateral line has been one of the most mysterious of all vertebrate sensory systems. The sensory organ is a hollow tube with pores in connection to the surrounding in the skin, [...]

White Shark Projects organise and take part in regular coastal clean-ups to try and reduce the amount of pollution heading out into our seas. All around the world people are bombarded with talk of the impacts plastic straws and shopping bags have on wildlife and their habitats. However, during our beach cleans, it is clear to see what the biggest [...]

On the 1st September 2019, White Shark Projects were ecstatic to launch our educational group called Ocean Defenders, as part of our 21 Days for the Ocean Campaign. The aim of the Ocean Defenders programme is to provide young marine enthusiasts with the knowledge and skills to help protect the ocean environment which will in turn create a more sustainable [...]

Recently articles have been surfacing in the media on the absence of great white sharks in the Cape Town area. Here at White Shark Projects in Gansbaai we are delighted to say that we are not experiencing the same absence of sharks. In fact, 2019, and especially the last 4 months, have given us some of our best shark sightings [...]

The last time I wrote, I was living and working in Spain and then also travelling around to little areas nearby. But if you know me, you know that’s not all I would have up my sleeve when it comes to adventures to be had. You’d be right, too. After two and a half months of that, I got on [...]