Sardine Run 2025 July Update
Sardine Run 2025 July Update: Welcome back to The Sardine News!
Where we have an action-packed show for you today. Starting in the Durban area and heading all the way on down to Coffee Bay in the Transkei.
Sardine Run 2025 Update
What a sardine run 2025 it has turned out to be. And it ain’t nearly over yet!
You can take a quick look at The Sardine Sightings Map for 2025 to see how the sardine run has unfolded this year so far. There are also maps since 2021 – a great reference as we go each year.
Amanzimtoti
Today we start in Amanzimtoti, where Team Veez has once again successfully negotiated the surf, and pulled in a neat little net.
Noth Beach, Durban
A little while later Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper checked in with us, reporting a humpback whale hustling the local surfers at North Beach in Durban.
Thank you Adam!
welcome back to The Sardine News
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welcome back Sardine news breaking by Adam Kamdah
there is a humpback whale in the back line
right in amongst the surfers at North Beach
yep you heard that right in the shallows
so the whales are also here for the sardine
the sardine run is quite early this year
and these whales are now forming up at the right time
because actually normally
the sardine run only really gets going at about now
it’s been a hell of a good year
and there are many more sardines coming
there’s a big shoal south of Umdumbi still
there are shoals past Umdumbi
up towards Port Saint Johns
and I’m not sure what’s going on in the south coast
at the moment but Durban uh Toti
seems to be the hot spot for sardines
flat out there they just love that place
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Coffee Bay
The Sardine Team is actually in Mdumbi, just north of Coffee Bay, deep Transkei…
STOP PRESS: Shark Attacks Fishermen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NSRI – STATION 20, Shelly Beach
NSRI – KZN South Coast – Sunday, 6 July. Ongoing search for a missing man:
Police divers are continuing in ongoing search efforts for a missing man.
KZN SOUTH COAST:
A 37 year old male is missing following a reported shark incident at Mfazazana, near Hibberdene, KZN South Coast.
On Friday afternoon, 04 July, the SA Police Services, Police K9 Search and Rescue and WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Services) were alerted to a man missing at Mfazazana following a reported shark incident.
It was reported that 3 local fishermen were in the water near to a school of sardines. One man disappeared under water after a shark appeared to surface where the man was was fishing.
It appears that one friend attempted to intervene but it is believed that he was confronted by at least 2 sharks and he retreated to the shoreline.
It is believed that the sharks were feeding on the school of sardines at the time.
Police K9 Search and Rescue and WPDS attended at the scene on Friday but no sign of the missing man was located.
On Saturday Police K9 Search and Rescue and WPDS, assisted by NSRI Shelly Beach, continued in search operations.
Police have opened an investigation and are continuing in an ongoing search.
Police divers are continuing in ongoing search efforts.
Thoughts, care and compassion, are with the family and friends of the missing man.
-ENDS-
NSRI EMERGENCY: 087 094 9774
RELEASED BY
Craig Lambinon
NSRI COMMUNICATIONS
Email: communications@searescue.org.za | Cell: ?+27 (0) 82 380 3800? | nsri.org.za
Sardines and Sighting Maps
Follow the 2025 Sardine Run Map!
You can also download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.
Last year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! This year we have had two sailboat incidents already. PLUS, we have already logged some sardines! And a UFO!
Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps…
2024 Sardine Map
2023 Sardine Map
2021 Sardine Map
Channels
Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining surf reporting
Master Watermen – news from way down deep
The Sardine News – neva miss a single sardine
FishBazaruto – 1000 pounds plus
MYDO Tackle Talk – highly technical sport fishing
Surf Launching Southern Africa – getting out there safely
Water Woes – complain about your municipality here
Websites
umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za – will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
masterwatermen.co.za – news from under water
fishbazaruto.com – dreams
brucifire.co.za – surf retorts
