Great White

[Winston Churchill (Sir)]

Great shot! I'd love to see one in the wild.

I think the missing ones from SA are on the East Coast of the US, particularly Cape Cod. There has been a huge increase in their presence over the last 4-5 years because of the bounce back of seals in the area.

That is very very interesting. Somewhere around 2015 or thereabouts - we had 18 months of not a single GW shark in Gansbaai - then about 3 years ago - they vanished again - I think there is one or two around on occasion now. I am glad they are at least somewhere Very little is actually known about them - they still don't know where these sharks breed (well at least not our lot) I dont think I will ever see them in the wild again. And apparently they don't do well in captivity. Wish I did better photos back then!

 

[Palmor]

That is very very interesting. Somewhere around 2015 or thereabouts - we had 18 months of not a single GW shark in Gansbaai - then about 3 years ago - they vanished again - I think there is one or two around on occasion now. I am glad they are at least somewhere Very little is actually known about them - they still don't know where these sharks breed (well at least not our lot) I dont think I will ever see them in the wild again. And apparently they don't do well in captivity. Wish I did better photos back then!

Did you know GWs can be artists?

Great White Shark Accidentally Draws Self-Portrait With Tracking Path

In 2020, OCEARCH tagged a pretty dang big great white shark. Breton appears to have accidentally drawn a bit of a self-portrait.

www.theinertia.com

 

[Winston Churchill (Sir)]

Did you know GWs can be artists?

Great White Shark Accidentally Draws Self-Portrait With Tracking Path

In 2020, OCEARCH tagged a pretty dang big great white shark. Breton appears to have accidentally drawn a bit of a self-portrait.

www.theinertia.com

what can I say

 

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Great White Shark - Gansbaai, South Africa. The decline has been immense around SA coasts - not many left.


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Very impressive moment well taken, enjoyed it, great shot.
Your Whites in the photo are nicely under control a thing i love about my D3X, i have never had a bad photo using that camera, its brought me so much joy, and with my 70-200 FL and 300 2.8 is flawless. It delivers natural or organic looking real photos. Amazing camera.
Its sad to see the shark decline in your area, any known reason, has the food chain moved or declined also.

Huge floating fishing trawlers/factory's have in the past just harvested the ocean and kept everything they netted, sharks dolphins etc, then smaller trawlers from north of Australia had been arrested with hulls full of just thousands of shark fins but no sharks, the bodies were discarded once the fins were removed.

We have seen warmer tropical weather moving progressively further south, our seal population according to fisherman have also moved further south.
We have seen more lone sharks in the swimming beaches than ever before.
We used to have sharks move south down the east coast from up north in massive schools of 500-600 - 1000 plus at a time, now no more.

I don't know what the answer is other than we are seeing lots of change.

Keep enjoying your D3X, i do.

Only an opinion

 

[Winston Churchill (Sir)]

Very impressive moment well taken, enjoyed it, great shot.
Your Whites in the photo are nicely under control a thing i love about my D3X, i have never had a bad photo using that camera, its brought me so much joy, and with my 70-200 FL and 300 2.8 is flawless. It delivers natural or organic looking real photos. Amazing camera.
Its sad to see the shark decline in your area, any known reason, has the food chain moved or declined also.

Huge floating fishing trawlers/factory's have in the past just harvested the ocean and kept everything they netted, sharks dolphins etc, then smaller trawlers from north of Australia had been arrested with hulls full of just thousands of shark fins but no sharks, the bodies were discarded once the fins were removed.

We have seen warmer tropical weather moving progressively further south, our seal population according to fisherman have also moved further south.
We have seen more lone sharks in the swimming beaches than ever before.
We used to have sharks move south down the east coast from up north in massive schools of 500-600 - 1000 plus at a time, now no more.

I don't know what the answer is other than we are seeing lots of change.

Keep enjoying your D3X, i do.

Only an opinion

Thank you - I no longer have the D3x but I can tell you I had severe remorse when I sold that body.
Poaching is probably the biggest factor here in the decline of the White Sharks and similarly - trawlers have an impact here too.
quite sad to see an Apex species disappear in my lifetime.