Went out on Sun with Chris Fallows (he of flying GW shark fame) to do a pelagic shark shoot. We stopped 25nm off Cape Point in the tuna fishing grounds and baited up. Within a few minutes the tuna were on the scene, followed shortly by the blues and later on a couple of mako's. Most of the sharks were juveniles and Chris is deeply concerned that there is a total scarcity of adult (breeding) sharks about. Seems the long-liners are having a dramatic impact on the pelagic population. Anyway it was a great day out and something a little different...
Went out on Sun with Chris Fallows (he of flying GW shark fame) to do a pelagic shark shoot. We stopped 25nm off Cape Point in the tuna fishing grounds and baited up. Within a few minutes the tuna were on the scene, followed shortly by the blues and later on a couple of mako's. Most of the sharks were juveniles and Chris is deeply concerned that there is a total scarcity of adult (breeding) sharks about. Seems the long-liners are having a dramatic impact on the pelagic population. Anyway it was a great day out and something a little different...
Blue sharks are really cool , thanks for posting !
Those are strictly caged dives or you can go out of the cage ?
Regards
On the day I went out it was cage diving only as there were too many divers to control. The cage was there less for our protection from the sharks and more so the operators know where you are and can direct the sharks right in front of you. We were not allowed out of the cage and I felt very restricted. The cage bobs around like crazy and made me very sea sick, and it was also difficult to capture the action shooting through the bars. Obviously being that far out to sea the operators worry about losing divers and therefore the cage makes sense for them. Chris said that it is possible to go out of the cage when the conditions are right and there are less divers about.
