In 2011 Tim van Heerden, 49, was killed by am 8ft Great White at the Keurboom River Mouth, Western Province, after being pulled off his surf board twice, suffering horrific injuries and dying later in hospital.
The Great Whites have only one known predator in the oceans which is the Killer Whale and can have as many 3,000 teeth growing in rows in their jaws at any one time up to three inches long. They can grow up to 20 feet long and weigh up to 2 tons and the largest ever seen was a Great White dubbed 'Deep Blue' off the coast of Hawaai last year - estimated to be about 23 feet. There is an average of six shark attacks a year in South Africa with 15% proving fatal and the main culprit is the biggest of them all - the Great White, of which there are thought to be 300 to 500 along the coast. In the past ten years, 12 people have been attacked and killed by sharks in South Africa - five by Great Whites four by Bull sharks one by a Tiger shark and two by unknown sharks. For these surfers, it was their lucky day and they will never forget what happened out there as it is on film'. 'They said they came out the water so fast and the beach was cleared by the lifeguards. Plettenberg Bay resident Michael Herbst said on social media: 'The drone footage is just mental and these guys said they had no idea the Great White was there until one of them yelled "shark". The NSRI carry emergency medical shark kits on all their sea rescue craft and rescue vehicles, and their medics carry the kit in their private cars to respond quickly. 'It is important for people to remember that Great White sharks are naturally inquisitive apex predators and that although shark bites are rare, water users must understand the inherent risk associated with sharing the ocean with these animals and change their behaviour accordingly to avoid encountering sharks'. If you can't get enough movies about people and the sharks that eat them, you can do much worse than this.Sarah Waries of City of Cape Town Shark Spotters programme said: 'The behaviour seen in this drone footage shows the shark is aware of the surfers and is investigating them. 'Deep Blue Sea' is not a classic movie, but it delivers in its own modest way.
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The sharks are the stars, and everyone involved with the movie knows that. But once again, no one will be watching 'Deep Blue Sea' for the acting. Saffron Burrowes is okay as the lead scientist, and she's not above stripping down to her undies if the situation calls for it. Thomas Jane has the 'action hero' part, and he's solid, but unspectacular. He also has a very memorable encounter with a shark in a kitchen. Rapper LL Cool J does a good job with what could be a clichéd character (the religious man who struggles with his faith under dire circumstances), and injects the role with humanity and humor. 'Deep Blue Sea' is not an actor's movie, but most of the cast acquits itself fairly well. However, there is one death that is so unexpected and surprising, you might find yourself hitting the 'back' button on the DVD remote to make sure you weren't seeing things. For the most part, 'Deep Blue Sea' works fairly well, and there are some good jolts and action sequences, but at the same there's nothing here that's particularly fresh. With the base flooding and sharks roaming the corridors, the survivors find themselves in a race for survival. It seems that those meddling scientists made the sharks smart, and they're about to pay for their folly. One typhoon and several gratuitous explosions later, the scientists find themselves cut off from the surface of the facility and at the mercy of a group of sharks that are smarter than the average fish. Things are going swimmingly, until Mother Nature grows tired of having some of her creations tampered with. How? By meddling about with the brains of live sharks (don't ask). The plot of the movie is simple: a group of scientists at an undersea research facility are on the verge of discovering a cure for Alhzheimer's disease. It's short on logic, the dialog is dumb, most of the actors don't seem to be trying very hard, and the science is dubious at best, but despite all that, 'Deep Blue Sea' manages to entertain. If 'Jaws' and 'Alien' had a baby, that baby would probably look a lot like Deep Blue Sea', a big, loud, dumb action movie that doesn't try to pretend to be anything else.
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