A place called Gansbaai (Shark Alley, Dyer Island) in South Africa has the densest population of Great White Sharks in the world. You have more chance of seeing White Sharks here than in Australia, New Zealand, California etc.
Certain times of the year they breach. We went at a time where there were plenty of Seals about, which meant the Great Whites were out in force.
In the video you will see the sharks start off small. What happens is they come along to see what's up, they can smell the Tuna head bait in the water. You have to watch out for the little sharks as they can take your fingers off. They can also fit into the cage if they wanted, so they are actually potentially more dangerous than the larger sharks.
The little shark disappears, this is the time to swap people out of the cage and get new people in, as there is a bigger shark close by. It's a hierarchy thing, so when the smaller shark goes, you know something bigger is about.
This happens throughout the dive until we get a HUUUUGE 5 metre Great White Shark at the end! I am on the boat filming, it was pretty intense.
When I was in the water we had a little 2 - 3metre, but I was lucky to be on the boat for the 5 metre shark as I was able to film.
I don't do great on boats out at sea so I was fighting off the sea sickness hard, we were out there for like 5 hours. When I was in the cage I was fine, but the moment back on that boat again its horrendous.
Those seals at Dyer Island STANK! haha but they were super cute.
I am glad I did the cage dive but I wouldn't do it again, mainly due to the sea sickness.
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