Shark diving in South Africa
Oct.12,2011When most people think of scuba
diving, it’s a tropical coral reef that comes to mind, or maybe a sunken wreck covered in seaweed and barnacles. There are both wrecks and reefs in South Africa, but diving here has one more major draw card – the sharks. The coasts are patrolled by a diverse range of large predators, and while most of them don’t consider humans as a menu item, swimming, snorkelling, and diving with them is still incredibly exciting and sometimes pretty scary. For divers, it might just be the ultimate adrenaline rush.
Around the Cape Coast and in the waters off KwaZulu-Natal you can findthe bull shark, the strange and intriguing hammerhead, the tiger shark, and last but not least, the biggest and most formidable of them all, the great white shark. Between May and October South Africa may be the best place in the world to find large numbers of great whites.
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