So, I’m now back at our base in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast, and have been office bound for a while. Spending weeks catching up on a back log of e-mails, tape logging, and receipts from our Bahamian adventures is the penance you pay for getting to go to these amazing locations in the first place. After two weeks of this boring stuff I decided enough was enough and I had to get back out on the water.
At this time year the Red Sea comes alive (even more so than usual!). We see blooms of moon jellyfish, and are most likely to see whale sharks at this time of year. We also see much higher numbers of reef and pelagic sharks now, including scalloped hammerheads, silvertips, gray reef, and last but by no means least, silky sharks.
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Lesley Rochat, executive manager and director of education and awareness of the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, along with Clem Sunter, former CEO of the biggest gold mine company in the world, Anglo American, and now well known author of the best seller, Mind of a Fox, and a leader in the field of scenario planning, recently addressed a mixed audience of over 200 business people and matriculates in Cape Town, South Africa. (more…)
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Lesley Rochat, executive manager and director of education and awareness of the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, along with Clem Sunter, former CEO of the biggest gold mine company in the world, Anglo American, and now well known author of the best seller, Mind of a Fox, and a leader in the field of scenario planning, recently addressed a mixed audience of over 200 business people and matriculates in Cape Town, South Africa.
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The Bahamas is essentially a haven for shark life as longline fishing was banned here in 1993, however that’s not to say illegal longlining by foreign vessels doesn’t go on in remote parts of the archipelago. The end result is that the diversity and abundance here is as close to a baseline level as you will find anywhere in the world….. an amazing thing given the endangered nature of sharks. And that is what makes this story so sad…..
So a little while ago the son of one of our visiting scientists was wandering the docks of the local marina and spotted a large bull shark. Unfortunately the shark was dead, killed in the early hours of the morning by a group of guys who were having a party in which the side entertainment was killing this young female shark.
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Last week Morne, Monwabisi and I made our first trip of the season to Seal Island to determine whether the white sharks had returned yet. It’s been a few months since we last saw a white shark and we were eager to see what was going on. We took along two other Shark Spotters, Ghaliep and Wonga who had spent the summer keeping Cape Town’s beaches safer, but had never been to Seal Island nor seen a white shark close-up.
Shark Spotters at Seal Island Photos: Morne Hardenberg
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So, I’m now back at our base in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast, and have been office bound for a while. Spending weeks catching up on a back log of e-mails, tape logging, and receipts from our Bahamian adventures is the penance you pay for getting to go to these amazing locations in the first place. After two weeks of this boring stuff I decided enough was enough and I had to get back out on the water.
