In African Shark Safari (9 p.m.), O’Connell and renowned underwater cinematographer Andy Casagrande want to find out where great whites go when they migrate away from South Africa every year. As ...

The common thresher shark that washed up on Sunset Beach, Cape Town, South Africa. The shark was photographed by Alex Aitkenhead, who made the rare sighting. Alex Aitkenhead/www.alexaitkenhead.co.za ...

Great white sharks were once abundant in South Africa’s False Bay and Gansbaai regions. But now, they appear to have ventured to safer waters elsewhere. Morne Hardenberg Courtesy Hakai Magazine ...

South Africa is renowned for having one of the world’s biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the ...

In less than eight years, white sharks in South Africa have all but disappeared from their historical hotspots in False Bay and Gansbaai, on the Western Cape coast. These areas were once known as ...

Great white sharks have disappeared from Cape Town, South Africa, with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months. Experts are baffled by the development.

To see a great white shark breach the waves, its powerful jaws clasping a shock-struck seal, is to see the very pinnacle of predatory prowess. Or so we thought. Several years ago, in South Africa, the ...

A recent article in African Journal of Marine Science focuses on two killer whales researchers have discovered that hunt great white sharks off the coast of South Africa. The whale pair's appetite ...

They just moved. Across South Africa, the scientists found, the white-shark population has undergone a pronounced eastward shift. To Jewell, who wasn’t involved in the research, this makes sense.

One of 20 female sharks slaughtered by a pair of orcas last week lays disemboweled on a beach in Gansbaai, South Africa. Facebook/Dyer Island Conservation Trust “Port” and “Starboard,” who ...

A great white shark jumps out of the water as it bites a fake decoy seal near False Bay, off Cape Town, South Africa, in this July 4, 2010 file photo. CARL DE SOUZA/Getty ...

Shark diving tourism is a growing, worldwide million-dollar industry and white shark cage diving tourism in South Africa developed shortly after the country passed national legislation in 1991 ...