Cape Town Great White Sharks Disappear

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.

Cape town great white sharks disappear.

Then in 2017 the number of great white sightings recorded by the shark spotters plummeted to 57. Working in tandem with a conservation group called shark. September 30 2019 12 00 am edt updated on september 30 2019 10 37 am edt 5 03. Experts are baffled by the development.

30 2019 12 00 pm. The shark spotters applied research programme has been monitoring great white activity and behavioural ecology in false bay since 2004. Great whites vanish from cape town s waters 06 13. 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.

For the past 18 months the cape town municipality has been monitoring the gradual disappearance of great white sharks from false bay. By 2019 there were zero recorded sightings mirrored by a complete absence of white sharks in cage diving encounters. 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.

Great white sharks have disappeared from cape town south africa with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months. By linda nordling aug. The apex predator. Sightings of white sharks carcharodon carcharias have crashed this.

Great white sharks have suddenly disappeared from one of their favorite hangouts. In 2018 this figure dropped further to just 50. So where have they gone and why. As great white sharks disappear cape town searches for reasons by.