Seal Island
South Africa · Africa
About Seal Island
The dive site Seal Island is an offshore site in the northern False Bay, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Seal Island travel guide
Understand
This is a place you go to see Great White sharks.
Position S34°08.25’ E018°34.95’ 1 Seal Island This site is not in a Marine Protected Area (2004). A permit is not required.
Name The island where the seals breed has been known as Seal Island for a long time, and is identified by that name on the official maps
Depth Shallow - less than 2 m in the cage.
Topography The island and offshore reefs are granite of the Peninsula pluton, and have the familiar rounded look of other similar outcrops. Geology: Late Pre-Cambrian granite of the Peninsula pluton.
Conditions
Getting there
Boat dive with licensed Shark Cage Diving charter. The site is about 12 km from Kalk Bay harbour, 14 km from Miller's Point, or 25 km from Harbour Island, Gordon's Bay
See
Marine life
These dives are for one purpose only: to see sharks. Other fish may be attracted to the bait, but this is not what you do this dive to see.
Photography
Suggested Routes Get in the cage, watch for sharks, get out again. Repeat if you have the time.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.