International Coastal Clean-up Day on September 17 is a promise to bring cleanliness and purity to nature as a whole. The day was started as a way to raise awareness about the growing pollution on various beaches of the world. Population growth and capitalism are just two of the main factors that have led to severely high levels of pollution in [...]
Audience attending the Marine Evening On Tuesday 6 September, the Great White House and Marine Dynamics hosted the monthly Marine Evening again, the first time since lockdown in Kleinbaai. The venue was packed with visitors from all over the Overstrand, excited to listen to the guest speakers, scientists from the Tuberculosis Research Group at Stellenbosch University. Team leader Dr [...]
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit” –Greek Proverb With Spring in the air, it’s time to celebrate Arbour Month. The theme for this year, being “Trees are Terrific…for Today and Tomorrow”. And so, say all of us! In celebration of Arbour month, the Dyer Island Conservation Trust in collaboration [...]
Runway show, organized by the DEEP BLUE AMBASSADOR students, spotlights sustainable fashion. Students from the Dyer Island Conservation Trust Environmental Programme known as DEEP, up-cycled trash bags, tissue paper, cardboard—even bubble wrap—into fashion-forward creations for their fourth-annual Trashion Show on August 26th, raising awareness about sustainable fashion. Pinkey Ngewu of the Dyer Island Conservation Trust hosted the event, entertaining a crowd of over 950 [...]
Shark Week 2022 ft Dickie Chivell, Alison Towner, and Michelle Jewell Marine Dynamics is a Shark Cage Diving company based in Kleinbaai, a small harbour town, part of Gansbaai in the Western Cape of South Africa. This area is known as a hotspot for the Great White Shark and the best place in the world to see and dive with these [...]
A pair of Orca (Killer Whales) that have been terrorizing and killing Great White Sharks off the coast of South Africa since 2017 has managed to drive large numbers of the sharks from their natural aggregation site. A new study, published today in the peer-reviewed African Journal of Marine Science, uses long-term sightings and tagging data to show that the Great [...]
Report by Alison Towner and Alina Pryazkhina. At 4pm on Monday 20th of June, a stranded white shark, Carcharodon carcharias was reported in from Die Dam area of the Overberg, GPS°34 46.101’ S, 19° 40.599’ E. The animal was a deceased subadult female. It was retrieved by the Marine Dynamics Academy (MDA) team and rolled into a trawl net, then transported [...]
Every year on June 8th, World Ocean Day is commemorated to raise awareness of the ocean’s vital role in human life and ways to conserve it across the world. Everyone has a responsibility to participate and contribute significantly to the protection and conservation of the ocean. The goal of the Day is to raise public awareness about the impact of human [...]
The first global environmental summit held in Stockholm in 1972 led to the establishment of World Environment Day. The inaugural event, which celebrates the planet and promotes sustainable development, was first held on 5 June 1973. Fifty years on, the planet faces the challenges of climate change, loss of biodiversity, and environmental pollution. This year's theme, Only One Earth, not only [...]
The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the dangers that threaten the survival of many animals around the world. Therefore, it is a fantastic time to explore and investigate endangered animals of the Greater Dyer Island ecosystem with our DEEP students. This is what the students had to say about endangered animals: “When a species is defined as [...]
