By Nellie Huang
This was one of the reasons that drew me to South Africa: the chance to get close to one of the world’s most intimidating animal, the Great White Shark. Gaansbai, just two hours away from Cape Town, is considered the white shark capital of the world – home to densest population of great white shark in the world. Here, I got the opportunity to get into a cage and enter the shark’s world.
Earlier that morning, our resident marine biologist, Matt, gave us a crash course on sharks. While movies have made sharks appear to be mindless man-eating machines, they are really not as lethal as you would imagine. Sharks may kill between 5 to 15 people a year but we human beings kill over 100million sharks a year. Statistically, we are more likely to get killed by... More...
