Cape Town Great White Sharks Disappear

The shark spotters applied research programme has been monitoring great white activity and behavioural ecology in false bay since 2004.

Cape town great white sharks disappear. For the past 18 months the cape town municipality has been monitoring the gradual disappearance of great white sharks from false bay. Experts are baffled by the development. Johannesburg south africa not a single great white shark has been spotted this year in a bay on south africa s coast which until recently. Cape town residents don t know who to blame for the disappearance of their great white sharks.

As great white sharks disappear cape town searches for reasons by. By linda nordling aug. Great white sharks which support south africa s shark diving industry and have been responsible for a number of fatal attacks off cape town haven t been seen in the region for 18 months. In 2018 this figure dropped further to just 50.

Sightings of white sharks carcharodon carcharias have crashed this. The city of cape town along with its shark spotter program has noted that there is an absence of great white sharks in the false bay area. 30 2019 12 00 pm. Great white sharks have suddenly disappeared from one of their favorite hangouts.

Great white sharks have disappeared from cape town south africa with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months. Cape town s world famous great whites have vanished according to local shark spotters. In the space of three years cape town s apex predators had literally disappeared. Working in tandem with a conservation group called shark.

Then in 2017 the number of great white sightings recorded by the shark spotters plummeted to 57. The apex predator. By 2019 there were zero recorded sightings mirrored by a complete absence of white sharks in cage diving encounters. Great whites vanish from cape town s waters 06 13.