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From: http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/sard...aculous-things It's all about sardines, seriously. The next time you pop a tin of sardines or more accurately in this case, South African Pilchards, you may see them in a new light? These massive bait balls are chased by dolphins, sharks, whales and squadrons of gannets. The dolphins are thought to trigger the feeding behaviors captured on film at times. From: http://marinesci.ukzn.ac.za/ More about the sardine run and dynamics at: http://marinesci.ukzn.ac.za/biology/...rdine-run.html From: http://marinesci.ukzn.ac.za/ Migrations often follow temperature gradients. It is thought sardine runs start when nearshore temperatures drop below 21 C. With climate change this trigger and migration have become more problematical. Runs are becoming less frequent it is said. From: http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/sard...aculous-things The bubble geyser of dive bombing gannets are memorable to see. In the first clip you can see an advancing front of gannets swimming underwater sideways like a large school of humpbacks into prey. .
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They are really amazing to watch, every year around July they would come past Durban, some of the schools would be huge, easily half a mile long some years, you could easily spot them because of the birds. When the sardines were running the beaches were normally closed for swimming for the month they were around and the shark nets lifted although we still used to surf if they were not too close. Sometimes millions of them would come right up to the shore and everyone would go crazy and grab washing baskets, nets and anything else that they could use to catch them with and go into the water and get them.It was great because when they did come in the bigger fish came in after them so surf fishing was really fun due to the sizes of some of the larger fish you would catch right of the beach.
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Beautiful, dynamic place you come from Greg. Lots of great images from SA, above, on and beneath the water!
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"PALM BEACH -- Two South Florida divers had a close encounter few would believe. They came face to face with a shark that had a plastic ring around its neck. John Dickinson and Chip Garber not only saw it, they have proof. They videotaped it. They were with a group that was diving on a wreck off Palm Beach called "The Princess Ann" when they noticed a nurse shark lying lifeless on the bottom of the ocean. "We thought the shark was dead, however after pulling her tail she began to swim away," Dickinson said. They noticed the shark had a large Frisbee-like ring around its neck that prevented it from eating. They decided to make a brave move. Garber was able to approach the shark from behind, grab the ring and remove it. "You can tell in the video that the shark had lost a lot of weight. Hopefully the shark will begin eating again and live a long healthy life," Dickinson said." http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/mar/...rk-palm-beach/
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Waiting for calm water or conversely wind waiting? Why not check out the dozens of other videos at: http://vimeo.com/user256908/videos .
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