White Shark Diving - South Africa

Nigel Motyer · Issue 4, Jan 2002 · pp. 17–23

Products mentioned: White Shark Diving Company

I’ll never forget the first shark I saw. 1985, 30meters down the drop off at Ras Mohamad a grey reef shark left a pack of about seven or eight sharks swimming out in the blue and cruised in to take a look at me. It passed about four feet from me. I was totally absorbed by the experience and have been fascinated by sharks ever since. Over the years since a good portion of my dive travel has been focused on seeing and photographing these amazing animals. Of course the grand daddy of all sharks is the Great White and they had always been something I had wanted to see. At the time I first started looking into these trips Southern Australia was really the only place where tourist divers could get to see Great White sharks. Peter Gimble had put Dangerous Reef on the White shark map in his 1971 film Blue Water White Death. This was an area that had reasonably clear water and big sharks, 5 meter…