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Gordon's Bay (Afrikaans: Gordonsbaai) is a harbour town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is included in the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality Eastern Suburbs region (formerly called Helderberg Basin). [ 2 ]
Scientists studying this behavior in False Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa, estimate this shark caught a record-breaking 15 feet of air. This incredible hunting technique is called breaching.
Great white shark: Mr. M was surfing with friends at Hole-In-The-Wall when he was attacked by a shark. They found his body an hour later with a right leg severed, along with a severed artery on the left leg. [30] Ian James Hill, 39: December 28, 1997: Pringles Bay, Western Cape Province: Unconfirmed, probably great white shark
Another white shark that was tagged off the South African coast swam to the southern coast of Australia and back within the year. A similar study tracked a different great white shark from South Africa swimming to Australia's northwestern coast and back, a journey of 20,000 km (12,000 mi; 11,000 nmi) in under nine months. [47]
Killed by shark in waist-deep water at approximately 4:20pm. Only his bathing trunks were recovered despite a three-day search for his body. [4] Michael Cohen 42: 2011-09-29: Great white shark: Fish Hoek, Western Cape: Leg bitten off and the other severed below the knee in a shark attack [5] [6] [7] Lloyd Skinner 37: 2010-01-12: Great white shark
Most of the sharks spotted in the area are juveniles — despite their size, the great whites are only up to about 6 years old and very inexperienced hunters.
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay.
Astronaut photo of Cape Town showing the Cape Peninsula, and surrounding waters, including False Bay. Map showing approximate extent of the range of the article and identifying key locations and the borders of the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area Marine ecoregions of the South African exclusive economic zone Marine species distribution reference map of the Southern African ...