He's got many names, these are just a few. Mainly he's known as Bull Shark or in South Africa the Zambezi Shark. This type of shark is considered one of the most dangerous species yet in many dives at the Protea Banks of Margate we never had the feeling of being "under attack". Of course that is based on experienced diving with this animal and being knowledgeable about their behavior. We did experience a few times. let's call it, extreme curiosity! Most the time the Zambezi Shark is just cruising by at some distance, on occasion he did charge directly at me and at the last moment made almost a u-turn with the tail almost ripping the regulator out of mouth. There was no otherwise aggressive behavior shown so i call it just "testing us"….. You may want to view this video with/by Dr. Erich Ritter. Continue Reading »
Zambezi Shark = Bull Shark, Freshwater Whalers, Lake Nicaragua Shark

We apologize for any inconvenience browsing our shark divers website. Shark Society is re-designing (with a helping hand from the Wwwizzards) and some of the pages are temporarily not available or not complete. Launch date for the new, 2008 season website design will be middle of February 2008. Many new features and several NEW dive locations in Mozambique and Madagascar. Stay tuned, it will be worth the waiting. In the meantime you may want to check out this Tigershark video from the Aliwal Shoal. We are not into chumming or baiting the sharks yet the producer of this video was….:( Continue Reading »
New Shark Society website design