Early Shark Detection & Bather Protection Technology Unveiled By Local South African Company What started 6 months ago as an environmental discussion on a trip back from Mozambique has led a local South African survey company, Land & Marine Surveys, to unveil a new set of complementary technologies for early shark detection. Clint Marx – … Read more
ORI: 30 Years of tagging fish A press release from Stuart Dunlop of ORI (Oceanographic Research Institute) announces 30 years of tagging fish in and southern African waters. “The Oceanographic Research Institute’s Cooperative Fish Tagging Project (ORI-CFTP) was the brain-child of past ORI Director Rudy van der Elst and was initiated in 1984. After 30 … Read more
Jason Heyne Dive Report for KZN Jason Heyne is our man on the underwater scene – he has been patrolling the waters of the KZN coastline for decades now and knows all the nooks and crannies, kooks and nannies and everyone in on the dive scene. Thanks Jason! Awesome sea conditions this week with the … Read more
Natal Shore Dive Champs, easterlies and big swells The sea conditions have not been great this week with very few fish coming out. Big swell and variable wind direction has turned the sea into a washing machine. The forecast for Saturday is not good with a 15 knt plus northeast blowing and up to 2m … Read more
Where are the sardines 2015? The word in the carpark, up and down the KZN coastlines is that we should not give up hope, for a second coming, of sardines this year. In fact, today brought with it an entirely new ocean, with lovely polished swells coming out of the south, a stiff offshore breeze, … Read more
