The ocean's most dangerous predator

Great White Shark, originally uploaded by john white photos.

What is the ocean's most dangerous predator? Actually, it is rubbish. yes, plastic bags and human garbage kill more sea ecosystems and wildlife than great white sharks every year.

Anyways, today, Jennifer and i spent the day in Gaansbai where we got to go cage diving with the great white sharks (note, that is not my picture, but one borrowed from John White of flickr). We met the Animal Planet's Sharkman, John Rutson. In fact, John and many people at the dive shop and crew remembered Jennifer from 5 years ago when she did her research out in Gansbaii. They were all really nice and gave us a huge discount on diving, free gifts, and good times.

Anyways, the dive was pretty awesome. We pretty much get taken 20 mins off the coast and then get dropped into a steel cage. Then the shark crew throw "chum" and huge fish into the water to lure the great white sharks in for our viewing. It was pretty exciting and we were within a few feet of sharks measuring over 10 feet long.

On a side not, after the shark viewing, the entire boat got to view a very exciting yack show. Yes, I entertained the whole boat on our ride back to town by vomitting 4 times off the side of the boat. For some reason I coudln't find my sea legs and hold breakfast down. It was quite a sight and even two motion sickness pills couldn't help me. I hope this won't kill me during the Sardine run.

anyways, i will post our own actual pics from the shark dive and South Africa on our flickr soon so keep on checking..

www.flickr.com/photos/ruchbum

Hope everyone is doing well at home