Getting close-up and personal with sharks
Lead safety diver, Cera-Jane Catton, accompanied Roving Reporters director, Fred Kockott, on a shark dive at Aliwal Shoal on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast in preparing for The Wild Swim along a 22km stretch of the Wild Coast earmarked for heavy minerals mining.
The Wild Swim aims to raise R250,000 for eco-tourism in the area, marine conservation and associated environmental journalism training.
Photos: Blue Wilderness Shark Adventures
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- Roving Reporters, director Fred Kockott eases into his first shark dive
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- . . .under the watchful eye of Jess Escobar, the owner and lead guide at Blue Wilderness Shark Adventures
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- A pack of Black Tips converge on the chum on the surface
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- Kockott heads through the pakck
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- and gets his head knocked out the water by the dorsal fin of shark entering the frame of this pic
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- Conditions were perfect for close up encounters
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- Sharks circling the baited drum
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- This fella is named Smiley for good reason. He suffered a broken jaw and is now incapable of closing his mouth. This, as Kockott soon discovered, makes it look like he is always moving in for a bite!
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- He’s very sporty and curious shark, too!
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- This is how Smiley’s mouth would normrally look if he did not have a perpetual grin.
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- It;s amazing how quickly one learns to relax when one realises the presence of sharks does not mean imminent danger.
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- The Blue Wilderness team are amazing folk to spend time with
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- All the Blue Wilderness shark dives get captured on GoPro camera, resulting in truly amazing videos to treasure.
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- The Wild Swim lead safety diver, Cera-Jane Hatton stays calm and composed even when it comes to cheek to cheek shark encounters
