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Shark Alley Express - Shark Cage Diving

After breakfast you will depart from Gansbaai Harbour for a 30 minute boat ride to nearby “Shark Alley” where you find two islands situated next to each other. We have a 57 foot motorised catamaran that was built especially for shark viewing and cage diving. This is the largest boat in operation in the Shark Cage Diving Industry, offering you the best in safety and comfort. Once anchored in the channel, we make use of a specially designed, secure, six man steel cage, which floats on the surface, with our divers no more than 1m below the surface. You do not require any diving certification to do the cage dive. Diving takes place on a rotational basis and on good diving days, it is possible for each diver to take more than one dive. The duration of each dive depends on the diver and the activity of the sharks, but could be up to half an hour per dive.

White sharks are surface feeders, providing brilliant surface viewing for our waiting divers or our non divers from the comfort of the shark-viewing deck of the boat, where exhilarating photographs and video footage may be captured, at close range.

Breakfast which includes coffee and tea, toast/bread, cereal, eggs, yoghurt, fruit, muffins and juice

Snacks on the boat include water, juice and potato chips

Lunch - a choice of 6 meals including non vegetarian and vegetarian meals, beers/ciders and cold drinks

A videographer will join you on your cage diving trip for the day and film all the action that takes place. After which you can view the DVD and decide if you would like to purchase it.

The Great White shark cage diving season at Shark Alley can be divided into three periods:

High season : May to October.
Intermediate : April, November, December, and January.
Low season : January, February and March.

During the high season the water temperature will be about 15C or 59F.
Visibility is usually 6 - 8 metres, but it can go up to 12 - 15 metres on a good day and down to 2 - 3 metres on a bad day. The visibility is better during the high season.

Waterproof jacket, warm clothes, hat, sun block, swimming costume (if diving) (towels will be provided on the boat), camera. If you are diving, underwater cameras (disposable) are recommended, and are available at the harbour curio shop or at most camera stockists.