Shark Facts

Great White Shark Facts

The Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the shark of all sharks. It is beautifully and enormous in size , it is the ultimate super predator ..............

The Blue Shark Prionace glauca

The blue shark is one of the most attractive and graceful of the world’s sharks. With its indigo blue colouration, it is also one of the easiest species to identify...............

Shortfin makos Isurus oxyrinchus

The shortfin mako shark is a sleek spindle shaped shark with a long conical snout. This shark has short pectoral fins and a crescent shaped caudal (tail) fin...............

Airjaws

We help produced and starred in "Air Jaws". Since then the Discovery Channel has completed filming on "Air Jaws II" with us and we are facilitating several international film crews every year including the Discovery Channel and the BBC Natural History unit as well as Animal Planet.

Airjaws 1 and 2 is the most successful shark videos ever made by Discovery Channel, and it concentrates on the “flying” great white sharks of Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa ..............

Our Boat Blue Pointer

Our boat - Blue Pointer - is a custom designed 2006 36ft GECAT marine catamaran. The boat is a great platform to view and photograph the great white shark breaching and hunting behaviour ..............

Description of Chumming?

Chumming is a type of scent trail that that attracts fish, sharks, etc., to an area, or boat. It may be man made or natural ..............

Life History of the Fur Seal

An adult male Cape Fur Seals measure up to 2.7 metres in length and 350 kilograms in mass; adult females are generally less than 2 metres long and 100 kilograms in mass ..............

Strategies of Cape Fur Seal

Cape Fur Seals apparently reduce their vulnerability to Great White Sharks by staying in groups ..............

Great White - the Predator

At Seal Island, in False Bay, South Africa, you will have the unique opportunity to observe the natural predation by White Sharks on Cape Fur Seals ..............

Seal Island - South Africa

Seal Island is a small island half an hour by boat from Simons Town, South Africa ..............

Great White behaviour

The Great White Shark attack with a vertical rush; often leaping partially or completely out of the water, with or without a seal in its mouth ..............

Great White Breaching

Great White Sharks breaching! Don’t you mean whales breaching? Nope it’s true, and you have to see it with your eyes to believe that great white sharks can fly ..............

Great White Life History

Great White Sharks do not appear to breed at Seal Island nor anywhere within False Bay ..............

Predator Strategies

The Hunting Great White Sharks’ main predatory strategies rely on stealth and surprise ..............

Shark Awareness

Considering the number of people who use the ocean on a daily basis, the actual number of attacks by Great White Sharks is extremely low ..............

 

 

Dirk Schmidt - Great Whites of False Bay

This book is a world first, depicting the Great White Sharks which dominate the False Bay area and present a unique hunting behavior of breaching during predatory events

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Rob Lawrence is proud to have worked with and been associated with these companies:

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