First off, the blue shark dive! We took a three hour boat ride from Simon's Town to our dive site--The Middle Of Nowhere, The Ocean. It was a long, cold boat ride. I was riding on a 9m boat with inflatable pontoons on the side so it was a comfortable ride (bounces over swells don't hurt as much), but much less sheltered than the other, larger boat. About 20 minutes into the ride, I was as wet as if I'd already jumped in the ocean. The dive site really was in the middle of nowhere. There was no land in site and we were sitting over an area of ocean that was about 700m deep. Once at the site, chumming started and, after attracting a few sharks to the area, we hopped in for the dive. The dive itself was about 40 minutes long, max depth of 25 feet, and water temperature 58 degrees F.
Blue Sharks are amazingly curious. They'll come right up to a diver and actually get so close that you need to give them a little shove. They're absolutely beautiful little sharks. The largest we saw was just over a couple meters and the smallest was about a meter. It's easy to see how they got their name--their dorsal surface is a gorgeous shade of blue. Photos from the Cow Shark dive in a kelp forrest, penguins at Boulder's Beach, and a seal dive are coming soon!
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| Gearing up on the dock. |
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| On board the "duck" |
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| Rounding Cape Point and heading for the open ocean! |
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| The view from the dive site. |
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| Blue Shark |
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| Just a shark coming in for a little closer look. |
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| Well... got half of me and the shark! |
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