Great White Shark Spotted in False Bay After Eight-Year Absence

Great White Shark Returns To False Bay After Eight Years

Great white shark spotted in False Bay for first time in eight years

Simon’s Town has witnessed a remarkable return to its waters, with a young great white shark spotted at Seal Island for the first time in eight years.

Crew spots first great white in years

Wednesday morning gave Simon’s Town something it has waited eight years to say: A great white shark is back at Seal Island, Cape {town} Etc reports. A young shark, described as a sub-adult, swam up to the African Shark Eco-Charters boat just north of the island on 23 September, and the crew filmed it. It is the first great white... Read more →

Great white shark spotted in False Bay after eight-year absence

Bold as brass, a lone great white shark made a big splash off the coast of Cape Town on Wednesday, September 23, becoming the first of its species to be sighted and filmed in False Bay in nearly eight years. These sharks disappeared from False Bay, largely because of predation by killer whales with an appetite for shark livers.