Overall Rating:
Rating – High Season
4.5 / 5, July to January
The best and most famous places to observe these creatures during the above period are Raggies Cave and Cathedral.
Rating – Low Season
4.5 / 5, February to June
In February you might be lucky and see one or two of the lazy ones that have decided to stay a little longer after that your chances are Zero. And they only come back after the Sardine Run in June.
Raggies Cave and Cathedral still score a respectable 4/5 out of season.
Rating – As A Dive
High adrenaline dive.
Description
During the high season mentioned above the Raggies that have followed the annual migration of the Sardines, move onto the shoal in their hundreds.
It is speculated that they move in there to escape the fierce currents that are found off the Kwazulu Natal coast and the abundance of food.
Although they have gorged themselves on sardines all the way to our relatively warmer waters as opposed to the Cape waters. They come here essentially to copulate.
There is evidence that feeding habits slow down as hydroid growth has been documented on their teeth during this period. It is these teeth that fall out and eventually end up as a memento of an excellent dive around many divers necks.
Although one of the fiercest looking sharks they are unusually calm and accommodating posing for the photographer at every opportunity. The dives are spectacular, imagine sitting in Cathedral or Raggies cave and have 30 sharks swimming around you!
They come right up to you with their menacing mouths gaping. However once you have experienced the sharks, witnessed their quiet and calm disposition, one quickly relaxes and bathes in the splendor of these magnificent creatures.
Location
Aliwal Shoal.
Depth
12 – 27m.
Visibility
Not specified.