CAPE TOWN, fishing boat arriving and offloading FISH at KALK BAY (South Africa) ⛵????
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Cape Fur Seal Kalk Bay Harbour
Kalk Bay, Cape Town - Cape fur seal swimming in the harbour, washing his face
Surface Tuna Action - Fish Tales Charters 2018 (Watch in HD!)
Captains log 2018-11-15
The past few weeks were pretty frustrating, watching 80kg plus yellowfin tuna jump clear out of the water but not interested in anything we through at them.
The day before the charter:
Johann gives me precious information on where he saw the jumpers on his charter with Fish Tales II & I start to put my game plan together. Two popping rods, lots of surface trolling lures, enough bait & a seriously positive attitude.
D day:
I meet up with my clients for the day (Pieter, Dewald, Maansie & Simon). Pieter booked this trip for some of his clients a few months ago but unfortunately they were not able to make it (I bet they are kicking themselves now), so he called up a bunch of his friends to join him.
After meeting the guys & having a chat, I think to myself “ this is going to be a awesome day on the water”.
Its 6am & we start heading out on a FLAT sea, already the day is off to a good start.
As we arrive at the current-line things start to liven up & we catch a couple of bonitos on the first cast. But we are not here for the babies, we are here for the big boys.
I push forward for another 8 nautical miles & the water starts to get a brilliant blue tinge to it, birds flying around & it just feels fishy.
Right, with a nice spread of trolling lures set we start our search.
Its not long & we spot massive smashes & yellowfin jumping clear out of the water. There is an anxious feeling on the boat as we approach the school of yellowfin, waiting patiently for the lines at the back of the boat to start screaming off........ but nothing.
Change tactic.. Bring in the trolling lines, get bait lines & the chum ready & arm the popping rods.
Charl starts a wicked chumline & there's just boils of tuna all around the boat. Soon one of the boils changes direction & starts coming right at us. Then the poppers goes in... one pop, two pops.. Fish ON & then the second popping rod goes on with another Yellow.
After 10min, the first fish comes off the popper, but do not despair.. As Pieter casts the popper again, one of the bait rods goes off & he gets another chance, this time on heavy tackle.
He makes quick work & we boat the yellowfin while Maansie is still battling it out with his yellow on the popping rod. Pieter pulled the fish so hard that he tore his favourite shorts in half..
After about an hour & thirty minutes, poor Maansie is pretty broken by his fish on the popping outfit, but he is determined to boat the beast. He gets the fish close enough to the boat so that we can see its a real beast. Just as he thinks he will get some rest the fish makes another dash & empties enough line off the spool to bruise anyone's spirit.
Steadfast to get his fish, Maansie gives it all he's got & gets the yellowfin back to the boat & on the gaff.
There's more boils but nobody really wants to go for another round on the popper outfit so we make another few drifts on the bait. Simon gets a run on the bait rod & lands a nice size long fin.
Then Dewald gets a run, picks up the rod & says “it feels like a longfin”. His words are not cold & that longfin turns into a beast of a yellow, taking so much line that I had to go to sunset on the drag.
After about 30 minutes he has the fish in the boat, all 90KG of it!
It goes a bit quite & the sharks start pestering us so I decide to make a new chumline close to another boil in the distance.
Bam, there goes Simon's bait rod. He fights the yellowfin like a champ & quickly we get colour on it, just for it to make another run out of sight.
All of a sudden the fish just starts to come, dead weight.. What just happened, did the fish roll over & die? As Simon brings the fish up from the depths we see a shadow come up from behind it..
Its a Mako shark.
When we get the fish in the boat we see that the Mako bit the tail off, just leaving a bit of skin attaching it to the body. Wow, that's a first for me. I've seen it happen while the fish is on the gaff, but never while its still on the line, making furious runs.
By now its about 14:00 & everyone has caught a fish. Pieter says that the skipper should also get stuck in.. Well, I don't mind if I do.
After striking out at the first boil we see another massive boil of fish breaching & jumping out of the water.
I make my cast into the centre of the boil, give a few pulls on the popper but nothing. I keep at it, with the popper halfway back to the boat I see there's 3 yellowfin chasing it. The first one misses it, 2nd one misses it & I just leave it floating for a split second. BAM it gets hit & its a solid take.
Now its the clients turn to chirp the skipper.. Don’t lift your rod to high skipper, keep your line away from the boat skipper, keep tension skipper.. Haha, great fun!
After I get my fish in the boat we head back to Houtbay for a nice daylight group photo & a cold one.
Till next time.
Captain Justin
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African Penguins & Shark Spotting: 48 Hours in Cape Town
Last year I travelled to South Africa with Cape of Good Hope Tours to discover the beauty of Cape Town. If you ever wondered what to see in Cape Town, this episode showcases how much you can see in only 48 hours. From wildlife such as penguins at Boulder's Beach, Simon's Town, sea lions at Kalk's bay, fynbos, and baboons, to Table Mountain, townships, wine and the beautiful city centre...
Cape Town is a beautiful city that won't disappoint you.
Places visited:
- Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Muizenberg Drive
- Kalk's Bay
- Simon's Town
- Cape of Good Hope
- Table Mountain
- Mzoli's township
- Groot Constantia
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Seals toying with Great White shark
Taken 180miles off Mexico at Isla de Guadalupe in October 2011. Seals come down and swim just behind and around a great white to keep tabs. Shark tests the cage steel!
IFAW Hunt Watch 2010 - Seal pups perish on the coasts of Newfoundland
The IFAW observation team witnesses dead harp seals on the coasts of Newfoundland. Harp seal pups are the tragic victims of the worst ice conditions on record in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Sadly, the Canadian government is moving forward with the commercial seal hunt, targeting the few seals that have survived without their necessary ice platforms
Sandbar Sharks On The Sea Floor
Keiko built a fun toy for One Ocean Diving to explore the bottom of their research site. Here's a little preview!
Awesome Great White Shark breach in South Africa!!
A great white shark known as Blackgill, who spends several months of the year hunting in Mossel bay, South Africa, has a special and spectacular way of hunting around the boat.
Blackgill is known to those who work and intern with White Shark Africa, a cage diving operator in Mossel Bay. To find out more about their work go to wsaecoprogram.co.za.
Great white sharks are awesome hunters, that deserve our admiration and respect, not our fear. Help to protect these animals by understanding more about them, and spreading the word!
CAPE FUR SEALS WITH CURTIS IGGULDEN & ADRENALISED DIVING
I recently had the chance to do a dive with Adrenalised diving based in v&a waterfront cape town. The dive was to see the cape fur seals. I have accumulated some great footage. This is a short film of the dive trip. Hope you enjoy it!
Scuba dive on the SS Clan Stuart with Curtis Iggulden
This is a short film of a dive in south africa in false bay. At the wreck of the SS Clan Stuart. with into the blue dive center. Lots of shysharks and Puffadder shy sharks.Hope you like the film.
Recco, a NZ Fur Seal, Released Back into the Ocean
Bon Voyage Recco! Recco, a NZ Fur Seal rescued and rehabilitated by Dolphin Marine Magic, was successfully released on 26 July 2013.
The AfriOceans Warriors Awareness Hike
On Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 430 learners from 14 high schools and junior schools from the South Peninsula, including 30 learners from COSAT in Khayelitsha, walked 8km in howling South Easter winds along a stretch of the coast from Muizenberg to Glencairn, Cape Town, South Africa to give a Voice to the Oceans.
This exciting AfriOceans Conservation Alliance (AOCA) initiative, an organization committed to aligning with others who share its vision, brought together the support of a number of governmental and non governmental organizations including SOS Shark Centre, SANCCOB, Dolphin Action Protection Group, Centre for Conservation Education, Kelp Environmental Learning Project, Seal Alert SA, Table Mountain National Park, City of Cape Town (YES programme), Jungle Theatre, Baboon Matters, Metrorail, NSRI, Western Cape Education Department, Science Education Resources Initiative, SA Navy, KEAG, Whale of a Heritage Route, REEF, Bright Weights, Pisces Divers, and Shark Lady Adventures.
The AfriOceans Warriors Campaign empowers the youth to become a member warrior of a unique African tribe who take action for our oceans. These young AfriOceans Warriors take ownership of their natural heritage and become leaders of awareness campaigns for Africas Oceans. The campaign encourages a reflection of African tribal roots and culture where profound values and empathy for the natural environment and animals is reflected. Armed with the correct knowledge and tools these young AfriOceans Warriors will take positive action in order to raise awareness and help save our oceans. They are set to become the Voice of Africas Oceans!
From the bottom of my heart I wish to thank all the dignitaries, partners, NPOs, sponsors, participating schools, their learners and teachers, volunteers, the helicopter owner and pilot, the aerial photographers, my supporting team, Charmaine Rochat, Terry Corr, Glenn Sieller, Adam & Michael Carenegie, Horst Kleinschmidt, and in particular a special mention to the initiator of the hike, Leonie Jacobson, Deputy Principal of Muizenberg High, supported by Principal of Muizenberg Junior, Dee Cawcutt, assisted by Lalette Mcgillewie, and Alan Linder of the Whale of a Heritage Route. It is amazing what we can acheive in so few days (we only had 8 working days to pull this off!) when we stand united! My dream of creating an army of ocean warriors is being realised, thank you!
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Great White Shark Volunteer & Intern Programme
Unique year-round opportunities to work with Great White Sharks, Southern Right Whales and the other marine species. Visit marinevolunteers.org
Oceans Research Internship
A short video summarising my amazing internship in Mossel Bay, South Africa (July 2015). Thank you to Oceans Campus! Visit oceanramblings.wordpress.com for more!
A Seal's Life in South Africa
Francois and his beloved Cape Fur Seals
FISHING AND SIGHT-SEEING BOAT TRIP - CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA // Planet Michaels
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Dramatic 24-hour Gray Whale Rescue off Laguna Beach, CA
IMPORTANT NEW INFO: WEBSITE LISTED AT END OF VIDEO SHOULD READ WWW.TheCaretakers.org. Capt. Dave and his wife, Gisele, were headed to dinner with friends Friday evening at 5:30 PM when they received a call from one of their whale watching boats that a whale with a huge amount of gillnet wrapped around its tail flukes had been spotted. They quickly abandoned their plans and headed to Dana Point Harbor where they met up with volunteer members of Capt. Dave's crew, Tom Southern, Mark Tyson and Steve Plantz and headed out in their whale watching boat to see the entangled whale and attempt to help it before it got dark.
After getting permission from National Marine Fisheries Service they quickly attached a buoy with a strobe light to the whale in the hopes they might be able to stay with the whale through the night and begin the disentanglement process in the morning. Plans went temporarily awry around 9 PM when the whale somehow managed to break free of the buoy and light and the crew members were now unable to follow the whale in the dark.
Knowing that this whale was in serious trouble and that it would be very unlikely that it would ever be seen again they made the decision to try the impossible and attempt to attach another buoy on the whale in the dark. With the engines shut off and listening for the whale in the dark, and with only a small flashlight for lighting, in what Capt. Dave called their 'first miracle', they were able to relocate the whale and re-attach the buoy after two hours.
Knowing that the next day would be a very long one, Gisele Anderson placed a call to another team member, Peter Bartholomew, and asked if he would 'babysit a whale through the night' so the disentanglement Team could come back and get some rest before the strenuous day that was ahead. Bartholomew readily agreed and after rallying two other volunteers, Hank Davis and Gary Weiberg, headed out to sea to truly 'whale watch' throughout the cold night until daylight the next day.
Early Saturday morning, the original team from Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari, assembled and were joined by Dana Friedman and Scott Davis from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center (PMMC), and Capt. Dave's friends Barry Curtis and Mike Johnson. Curtis and Friedman provided their Rigid Bottom Inflatables for the procedures. Bartholomew's team handed off the whale they had watched throughout the night and the disentanglement team decided to name the whale Bart to honor Bartholomew's efforts.
Working with specialized disentanglement equipment, Capt. Dave led the team through a dramatic effort that continued all day, until shortly before dark. Anderson observed a vast array of dead marine life called by-catch caught in the estimated 50-feet of netting.
What happened next was nothing short of astonishing. The team wasn't sure they would be able to finish the job with time running out before dark when one of the control lines snapped. 'Bart' submerged, taking four huge buoys with him like a scene from 'Jaws'. When he surfaced one minute later, the pull of the buoys had broken off the last of the partly severed ropes and netting and Bart was free.
'Bart' went first to the second support vessel and swam close by and underneath it several times. After placing their face masks in the water and taking underwater photos, they were able to confirm that 'Bart' was now free of nets. Bart then went back to the first boat, and came close enough to be touched. He raised his head out of the water, and opened his mouth. Team members all felt that this was his way of saying 'thank you'.
A sea lion, a leopard shark, two angel sharks, various crabs, fish and rays were all caught in the net. This whale was towing an entire ecosystem behind it, said Anderson, Nearly a thousand dolphins and whales die in nets every day, and untold numbers of other marine life die as well. Seeing it right there, in front of me, only made me want to get the word even more. In a strange coincidence , Anderson just released a new book, Lily, A Gray Whale's Odyssey a photographic, coffee table novel on this very topic, about Lily, another gray whale who was entangled in nets and rescued with Capt. Dave's help two years earlier. Half the profits from the proceeds of this book go to charity to help the plight of hungry children and entangled whales. TalesFromThePod to check out .
Seven Gill Cow Shark Dive in Cape Town - Adrenalised Diving
Misunderstood, Mistreated and heading for extinction with over a 100million sharks a year being killed for their fins. This a short clip of our dives with the Seven Gill Cow Sharks in Rumly Bay, one of the most unique diving experiences in Cape Town. Hopefully with more experiences like this we can help change peoples perspectives regarding sharks and it will help with the bigger picture of protecting them and ocean conservation as a whole.
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'Cane Talks: The Secret Life of Sharks
Neil Hammerschlag
Sharks are among the most mysterious and feared animals on the planet. Yet many shark species face their own deadly predator: humans. Faced with rising overfishing, shark populations around the world are suffering dramatic declines. Sharks play an important role in maintaining healthy oceans by keeping fish populations in check and removing weak and sick fish form the sea. Efforts to research and conserve sharks are complicated by the technical challenges of studying creatures who live below the ocean surface. Learn about the cutting-edge work of University of Miami Rosenstiel School research professor and shark scientist Neil Hammershlag and the team at UM’s Shark Research and Conservation Program to save the world’s sharks.
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NSRI took part in an exercise
A group of about 30 people took part in an exercise of the NSRI and other rescue services at Wilderness beach on Sunday 21 October. The exercise started shortly after 08:00. Representatives of the NSRI in Wilderness, Plettenberg Bay and Still Bay, George Fire Brigade, ER24 and paramedics of AMS took part. The AMShelicopter based in Oudtshoorn also participated.
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Video: Eugene Gunning, George Herald