Air Sharks by Niamh

Air Sharks

By Niamh S

The Great White Shark is a remarkable predator of the sea. It has a keen sense of smell and stealth to hunt a variety of prey in the deep ocean. It has once again shown its adaptability by its aerial predation in the waters of False Bay.

These Great White Sharks tend to swim around seal island 400 meters out in the ring of death which is by Cape Town in South Africa.Great white sharks have a attack before questioning strategy so they don’t only feed on seals, but dead whale and sea birds.

They attack in different types trajectory such as a shallow attack ,midwater attack and deep attack. With three different attacks these sharks make it harder for the prey to get escape so they never know what hit them. But in some cases the seal (or prey) escape or the sharks miss but it’s most likely for the prey to escape.

Cape Fur Seal's main predator is Great white sharks so the seals do whatever they can to not become lunch. There are about 60,000 cape fur seals living on Seal Island. Swimming out in groups of 8-12 and returning in groups of two. The seals can swim freely in front of the island where there is turbulence just before they leave to get their feed. The sharks can’t go in that area where there is turbulence. Just before the seals return to the island they take one last breath before swimming to the bottom of the turbulent area.

Sharks are remarkable sea creatures breaching into the air, gliding around in the water and finding different ways of attacking prey.

These extraordinary creatures are remarkably manoeuvrable and do all these amazing things and most likely more!