Shark Awareness Day 2017

July 14, 2017 Brenda du Toit

The main purpose of the annual Shark Awareness Day is exactly that – creating awareness of sharks as a critical part of our oceans.  Sharks are a large group of fish that have inhabited the oceans for over 400 million years. There are over 500 species of sharks in the ocean but here at Marine Dynamics and the Dyer Island Conservation Trust, our team deals with one of the most charismatic ones, the great white shark. After four confirmed orca predations on white sharks since May, the sharks had been scarce in Gansbaai but as if knowing there was something special about the 14th July,