Great White sharks are the stuff of legend and Cape Town's False Bay gained a worldwide reputation for its very visible population of the magnificent creatures. But now they've gone missing.
For the past 18 months, the Cape Town municipality has been monitoring the gradual disappearance of Great White sharks from False Bay. Working in tandem with a conservation group called Shark Spotters, researchers recorded a massive drop-off in the number of Great White sightings between 2016 and 2018.
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