In Gansbaai at the southern coast of SA you find the highest concentration of Great White Sharks anywhere. Starting as research teams somebody got the genius idea to put some tourist into the cage and generating a business, helping support the studies about the still very unknown behaviour of sharks. After a short boatride out of sea the crew throw some fishoil into the water and the wait for the sharks begins. We had to wait just a few minutes before the first Great White showed up and tried to catch the tuna head which is dangling on a fishing line and pulled in towards the cage, while you are sitting in there, head just above the waterline and waiting for the shout to "Go down"! Then you see the shark out of the blue approaching the cage, sometimes have a little bite at the iron bars, checking out if it's edible. I really don't want to meet one of this creatures out in open water, but seeing them so close behind the safety of the cage was great! Thanks a lot to Julie and Liz, who helped to organised this trip and of course WHITE SHARK PROJECTS for sponsoring it.
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