White Shark Diving Company 

Spectacular viewing and front row seats! Founded in 1998 and based near Gansbaai, join White Shark Diving Company for an unforgettable shark cage diving trip in one of the world's shark capitals. Combine a shark dive with seasonal whale watching, a scenic flight or a game drive. Explore, protect, respect: Our various conservation initiatives aim to preserve this vulnerable species. 

The Dive 

We have been operating Shark Cage Diving Gansbaai Eco-tours in Cape Town for over 20 years with a 100-per-cent safety record. The shark cage dive takes place out at Dyer Island, roughly 15 minutes by boat from Gansbaai. The island is home to a colony of over 50 000 Cape Fur Seals – the white shark’s favourite food and primary source of nutrition. Running between Dyer and neighbouring Geyser Rock is a channel of ocean so frequented by great white sharks that it has been dubbed "Shark Alley". The sharks move between Shark Alley and Die Dam and our boat anchors in these areas for up-close encounters with great whites. 

The cage is dropped at the diving site and you will be allocated your diving gear. Participants take consecutive turns in the eight-man floating cage to experience thrilling underwater views of this majestic apex predator. When not in the cage, you or non-diving passengers can enjoy sightings of the white sharks and other sea life, such as seasonal whales, from the viewing deck of the boat. The great white shark is a surface feeder and thus all the activity takes place on or very close to the surface, so surface viewing from the boat and photographic opportunities are excellent.