These immersive tours lead visitors and locals through kelp forests and tidal pools to gather materials which is then prepared into nutritional dishes rich in taste, culture, and history.
On Sunday, three divers were repeatedly attacked by a seal at a popular Cape Town spearfishing reef in False Bay.
A government-appointed team of nine experts has released the results of their study into why great white sharks have all but disappeared from what were once hotspots.
This past weekend, three orcas put on a great show in False Bay, with full breaches and tail slaps caught on camera.
Great White in False Bay. Iran retaliates. Don Jr.’s Hillary gun. Eskom’s 13th cheques. Diana’s niece to marry SA-born billionaire. Schalk Brits’ road to the top. Madonna’s daughter.
The disappearance of Cape Town’s great white sharks has attracted plenty of international media attention, and now CNN is wading in.
The Shark Spotters research team have no confirmed sightings of a great white this year, and shark cage diving eco-tourism operators who frequent False Bay’s Seal Island have been just as unsuccessful.
False Bay plays home to a number of visiting whales that come here to breed, as well as a resident population of Bryde’s whales and orcas. Now they’re under threat.
This last summer season, Shark Spotters recorded an all-time low number of great white shark sightings. This has opened the door for other species.
Over a period of nine years, researchers in False Bay recorded 1 105 great white shark sightings, identifying 303 individuals species. Here’s what they learnt.
You might not be keen on braving the waters off False Bay yourself, but you really should take a look at life amongst the kelp.
Called out on a whale rescue mission, the NSRI successfully detangled a large southern right whale before things could get out of hand.
It’s generally accepted that octopi are very intelligent, clever creatures however the depths of their cunning has never truly been measured, until now. An underwater camera, in South Africa’s False Bay, captured footage of one of the molluscs stealing an entire bait cannister – that was attacehed with three cable ties – while keeping a shark at bay!
In the wake of the tragic death of 20-year old Capetonian bodyboarder, David Lillienfeld last Thursday, the City of Cape Town has agreed to implement a shark spotting programme at Kogel Bay, where the young man lost his life.
Chris Fischer is an American documentary maker whose program, Shark Men, is in the Cape tagging Great White sharks along our coastline. A group opposed to this have lodged a complaint with the Department of Environmental Affairs, claiming the “research” Fischer conducts might make good TV, but is damaging to the sharks. Both sides of the story, after the jump!