A beautiful still day in the bay, spring is on the way. I picked up Hanli Prinsloo and Craig McKune and headed to Millers point for an afternoon of Cowshark freediving.
We entered the water and were greeted with 15m vis and 16C water…heaven!!!
I wanted to show the team what a healthy False Bay ecosystem should look like and point out a few fish species. I took them to the thick kelp bed near pyramid rock and by the third dive all the red roman, red steenbras, bankies and red stumpnose had come in from the surrounding areas to investigate the activity. Great to see these fish in the bay, it is near impossible to find them outside these safe areas.
We swam out into the sparse kelp forest that the Cowshark like to frequent and sure enough there they were. We dived on a small area and waited for the sharks to come to us. It is 12m deep in this area and simply by lying still on the bottom they came to investigate. I would guess we saw 10-15 sharks in total and 1 pregnant Spotted Gully shark.
As we headed into the shallows I spotted a puffadder shyshark. I love these sharks and dived to film it. I was getting a close up when a cowshark came from behind and swam straight into my camera and continued on its way, the clip is at the beginningCowshark diving of the video. Just goes to show you never know what can happen next.
Hanli Prinsloo and Cowshark
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