Where have all the Great Whites Gone?

Years ago, my gran aged 88 told us she’d just seen the Steven Spielberg movie, Jaws, which featured a giant great white shark chomping swimmers. I was somewhat taken aback ’ it”s not exactly sweet, little, old lady entertainment. Curious to find out if she”d enjoyed it, I asked her about the movie. “Just a lot of old fish," was her comment. Would that the world had viewed it the same way. Instead, Jaws sparked a terror that would see this animal become the world’s most feared and misunderstood creature.

I’ve personally had several shark encounters, though not perhaps in the best way. On one of them, on a fine Cape day with a south-easter blowing, my husband Anthony and I were practising our boardsailing skills. Little beats the exhilaration of “flying” across the water under a big sky. About 300m o'shore we gybed and were heading back towards