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Regular blog contributor Bryan Hart sent us this report on the diving, or lack of it, in and around the Durban area.

The diving season is going to plan…. Dec and Jan are usually great, and Feb is traditionally not…..

This means that the water is very warm but dirty, due to all the rivers dumping their sediment into the sea. And then just when it looks like it is clearing up, a big old cyclone pulls in!

This can be a very tough time of the year for any diver - low viz and cancelled launch’s and that feeling of going to work on a Monday that you have missed out on something….tensions at home run high - spouses get irritated by having you home on the weekend and you generally end up fixing something around the house or mowing the lawn……it also results in very uninspired newsletters like this!!

However April is coming, and looking at all the public holidays in this month, it appears that the ANC wants us to dive with less working days in that month than ever than before!! Fantastic as this also coincides with a calm clean ocean!!

It appears that sharks are still in the lime light this year. There has been another Great White sighting off Umdloti - unfortunately this was of a dead Great White that had been caught in a FAD (fish attracting device). Fisherman build these fish attracting devices, and anchor them out at sea which they then visit in order to fish. The picture below was taken during the recovery of the drowned Great White.