Exploring False Bay’s Aquatic Wonders: A Diverse Diving Destination
Diving in False Bay offers a variety of dives, making it a sought-after destination. Location: False Bay is an Atlantic Ocean body of water between the Cape Peninsula and Hottentots Holland Mountains in southwest [...]
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The Kelp Forests of South Africa
Dive Travel — South Africa One of the world’s largest kelp forests is in South Africa. Kelp is a marine alga and not a true plant, with species ranging from shorter “bottom kelp” to taller [...]
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Blood Parasites of Catsharks off the Western Cape
The neglected diversity: Who would have thought that marine research, and specifically research on elasmobranchs (Elasmobranchii is a subclass of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish, including the sharks and the rays, skates, and sawfish), [...]
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Diving Protea Banks
A world-renowned shark-diving reef in Southern KwaZulu Natal If you want to dive with sharks, this is the place. We saw 8 different species of sharks, scalloped and great hammerheads, ragged-tooth (also called the [...]
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In the water with a Great White Shark
Shark behavior and tips on how to behave when you find yourself in the water with a shark A while back we did a dive trip to Tofo, Mozambique. On our 4th dive [...]
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8 Handy Tips for Improving your Underwater Photography
We have made a handy list of tips for you to improve your underwater photography skills. 1. Keep Still Try to keep your camera as still as possible in order to prevent camera shake. [...]
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6 Fascinating Sea Animals
Marine animals are probably the most interesting but the least known. So we made a list of some of our favourite sea creatures with interesting facts about them. All of these can [...]
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Octopus Roundup: Top Five Favorites
by Hélène ReynaudSCUBA DIVER LIFE Octopus are one of the ocean’s most intelligent animals, and while it’s hard to pick favorites, here are the five species we most want to see on a [...]
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Being a surfer and sharing the water with sharks
Shark illustration by Caitlin Judge So, I’m sure most of us have seen ‘that shark video’ by now which has gone viral. Drone footage showing an encounter with a respectably sized white shark [...]
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Meet the Indian Ocean’s first pygmy seahorse
which was discovered in KZN Jay Caboz , Business Insider SA The tiny and beautiful Sodwana pygmy seahorse is one of its kind to be found in Africa and for that matter the Indian [...]
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Mafia Island Tranquility
Going to Mafia Island was a spur-of-the-moment decision and one of the best we’ve made. We were going to Malawi but decided to go to Tanzania as an add-on to our Malawi [...]
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Weird & Wonderful Sea Slugs
Imagine a creature that looks like it was designed by a committee of artists on psychedelics: a sea slug that comes in every color of the rainbow, wearing its lungs on the [...]
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Underwater Photography is For Anyone
Can anyone do it? Underwater photography is growing in popularity, and as time goes by, more and more options are available to people from novice to professional photographers. Yes, anyone can do it. Pretty [...]
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Discover False Bay: 5 Reasons Why This South African Paradise Should Be Your Next Dive Destination
Where else can you dive with seven-gill sharks in a prehistoric kelp forest, explore old navy shipwrecks, and possibly spot breaching great whites – all in the same bay? False Bay, nestled [...]
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Tofo, Mozambique
Anticipation, excitement and amazing encounters! This trip definitely exceeded all my expectations, even though I try never to have pre-conceived ideas and checklists of what I want to see, you still have hopes [...]
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