Letter. The Great White Shark Mystery – I Think Not!

“We caught the Orcas predating on the broadnose sevengill shark, also an apex predator… Later, they were found to have predated on Great Whites in Gansbaai.” So says a marine biologist, aquarist and commercial diver from the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town. Great Whites raise a lot of interest but there is nothing mysterious about them according to the following letter written by a professional commercial and game fisherman.

Dear Editor,

My interest was tweeked by your recent article on Great Whites and together with the somewhat unbelievable rumours doing the rounds, I decided to investigate a bit further. It helped that I number amongst my close friends from the past, Brian, who virtually developed shark cage diving to what it has become today, and several involved scientists.

First, are Great White sharks a mystery?’ We know so little about Great Whites but that does not make them mysterious. It merely indicates our lack of knowledge about them!

Great Whites line up with other problems that are far more serious such as Covid 19, global warming, and an over-populated planet. We don’t have enough knowledge about how to deal with any one of these issues.