Gansbaai

Gansbaai is a fishing town and popular tourist destination in the Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. It is known for its dense population of great white sharks and as a whale-watching location. The main tourist attraction in Gansbaai since approximately 1995 has been cage diving with great white sharks. It is said that after Kruger National Park, the great white sharks attract some of the highest numbers of tourists to South Africa for any single activity.

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Two orcas named Port and Starboard have slaughtered at least eight great white sharks near the Gansbaai coast since 2015. Shark carcasses have been found with their bodies torn open and their livers ripped out. This behaviour could be a result of declining prey populations.