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Shark Diving Unlimited

GREAT WHITE SHARK CAGE DIVING TRIPS:  

Shark Diving Unlimited is a PADI registered dive company offering great white shark diving tours around the Dyer Island area off Gansbaai. However you DO NOT need to be a qualified diver to dive with great white sharks from the cage. And if you prefer to stay dry we promise an awesome view of the action from the top deck!

We cater for non-divers, sport divers and professional film crews alike. Shark Diving Unlimited has been responsible for helping to create some of the most impressive images of great white sharks seen on international television and in magazines.

Our aim is to give divers and observers an unforgettable interaction whilst informing you all about the great white shark's biology and conservation.

Shark Diving Unlimited's crew has over 10 years experience working with great white sharks and are happy to share their knowledge with you.

On board is a marine biologist and videographer. DVD's of your unforgettable day with the oceans top predator can be purchased afterwards.

Shark Diving Unlimited also offers : Free-diving with the great white shark.- Kelp dives - Cape Fur Seal dives ; Ship wreck dives and many more!

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White Shark Ecoventures

Established in 1992 (when shark cage diving was unknown at Dyer Island), White Shark Ecoventures became one of the first companies to offer shark viewing / diving tours in the channel at Dyer Island. The company has gone from strength to strength and today, are better known as the most experienced and longest established operator in the field. Our directors consist of Cindy Thornhill, Mariette Hopley, Margo Francis and Nyami Booi. Our company is Black Economically Empowered, since we believe in gender and race equality as well as job creation in order to fight poverty in South Africa.

Our tours are not only highly educational, but we also actively participate in documenting valuable research information on great white sharks, which is forwarded to Marine & Coastal Management Research and various Marine Biologists world-wide. Our company were the founders of the Great White Shark Protection Foundation, a body dedicated to the protection and preservation of the great white shark globally.

Our crew consists of; SATOUR registered specialized tour guides; Dive Masters; Level 3 Medics; Qualified shark handlers and PDP licensed drivers. Our skippers are licensed with ICASA (Independent Commission Authority of South Africa), as well as SAMSA (South African Maritime and Safety Authority

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We dive out at Dyer Island which is situated off the coast from Kleinbaai (Gansbaai). Between the months of May through October is considered to be the best time to view the Great White Shark, although they are seen throughout the year!

This is due to the 30 000 strong Cape Fur Seal colony that inhabit Dyer Island, which is the Great White predators primary source of nutrition. The Great White Shark is a surface feeder and thus all the activity takes place on or very close to the surface, due to this, the surface viewing from the boat is excellent.

You do not need any diving certification to do the cage dive. The ride to the dive sight takes15 – 20 minutes where we anchor for between 4 and 5 hours. Diving time is unlimited, and for the first dive you stay in the cage for about 30 - 45 minutes. We use a 5 person cage and so there is plenty of time to cage dive. (We can guarantee you at least 2-3 dives, depending on the shark activity for the day).

Scuba Diving With The Great White Sharks

Once the sharks are around, a specially designed, four-man shark cage, that floats right bellow the surface, is lowered into the clear aquamarine waters. Divers with at least snorkel or regulator experience, may enter the cage where they hold on to its inside ring still out of the water, waiting for the shark to approach closer. This part of the cage is still out of the water /40cm/. Only on the dive master 's command they descend. Divers are never more than 1 meter below the surface.

The water temperature ranges between 55° and 65° F and divers take turns in the cage, each staying approximately 15-20 minutes. A diver can expect to make two to three dives per day if good weather, sea conditions, shark activity and visibility prevails. Visibility is between 4m to 6m on average, but may exceed 15m on a clear day.

Sharks may brush the cage, but to date an attack on the cage has not been reported.

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White Shark Projects

White Shark Projects, world leading organisation focusing on the Great White Shark. We do filming, Conservation & Education, Diving and Viewing. Our organisation was founded in 1989 purely for research, carrying the name SA Conservation Education & Exploration Society, (CEES), which is now our conservation department.

Mission : We are humble and grateful for the privilege and opportunity that we have been given to work with one of the earth’s greatest predators face to face, causing no harm but furthering and enhancing the chances of the survival of this rare species.

Everything we do, we aim to do in harmony with nature and the environment we are working in.

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White Shark Adventures

Mission : Our top priority is to raise awareness, helping to change peoples attitude towards these animals and strengthen the cause of protection and preservation of White sharks through detailed information and education.

White sharks are on the verge of facing extinction in certain areas. Although raising awareness through campaigns and other media orientated approaches is an important tool, it cannot match the on-sight education value while watching and observing the White shark in their natural surroundings. Every possible step is being taken to ensure that it's health, life and biology is least disturbed or influenced by the operator and spectators.

As the most important aspect of the operation is the White shark itself. The second aspect is to ensure that the spectators themselves have a proper impression of the White shark and their natural life. Top priority being to change the public JAWS attitude towards the true biology and raising public awareness. Through this hopefully the continued existence of the Great White shark.

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Dyer Island Cruises & Marine dynamics  

CONSERVATION

We support shark research, and consult on a regular basis with research biologists from
leading South African Universities and museums as well as international researchers affiliated to universities and recognised research institutions.

In 2005 Marine Dynamics joined forces with Dyer Island Cruises, the boat-based whale watching
operator in Kleinbaai. Dyer Island Cruises has for many years been actively involved in coastal conservation, especially on Dyer Island. The team assists with the transport and care of oiled and injured seabirds, the artificial penguin nest project on the island, assisting researchers in field work and collecting data about marine life for scientists.

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