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Diving with Fur Seals

Fur seals are agile, torpedo-shaped pinnipeds found along the Southern Ocean coasts of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Underwater they are acrobatic and inquisitive, often approaching divers with speed and playfulness. Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa, offers world-class fur seal diving, and the site is also famous for great white shark predation events.

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Seal Island – False Bay
Seal Island – False Bay
South AfricaIntermediate

Seal Island is a granite outcrop in the middle of False Bay, home to a colony of some 64,000 Cape fur seals that in turn attract one of the world's highest concentrations of great white sharks, particularly famous for spectacular breaching predation events in winter. Snorkellers and divers encounter young bronze whaler sharks, blue sharks, and sevengill cow sharks throughout the year in the island's shallower kelp-fringed margins. Water temperatures hover around 12–16 °C year-round.

5–18m
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