Hi divers Despite summer doing its best to hold on, the winter diving has started and in general the viz in False Bay has improved. The sun takes its time getting up in the morning… Continue reading…

Nowhere has the fraught and complex relationship between surfers and sharks played out with as much drama as at Réunion Island, a department of France situated in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar. A surfers’ paradise,… Continue reading…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the worst movie ever made. I don’t think a worse movie could be made; I’m willing to make this prediction even… Continue reading…

Hi divers So, the week has been a bit hectic – hectic wind and and hectic rain, but today was mild, sunny and mostly dry so we dug a hole in the garden and filled… Continue reading…

Hi divers Today I was fortunate enough to spend the day at sea being part of the release of two ragged tooth sharks in Gordons Bay by the Two Oceans Aquarium. The care, dedication to… Continue reading…

Date: 10 February 2013 The peaceful appearance of Hout Bay as I approached over Chapmans Peak drive for a day of diving was deceptive. When we arrived there, we found the parking area wall to… Continue reading…

I’ve been appallingly tardy in writing about this talk, but recent events in False Bay have reminded me that my notes have been sitting waiting for me to attend to them for several (ahem) months…. Continue reading…

Christopher Neff studies the complex interplay of politics and shark bites on humans. We have heard him speak at the Save Our Seas Foundation, and another article he wrote – that argues that the words… Continue reading…

Hi divers March weather has not been too kind and we have had very few days of good conditions. Two long weekends of no diving and we once again head into a weekend that does… Continue reading…

Here’s the rest of the set of photographs I took on Friday 22 March of the shark exclusion net being deployed for the first time at Fish Hoek beach. There’s a press release about the… Continue reading…