For the offshore photographer and avid adventure diver you will find the WILD COAST, when conditions allow, offers some of the most diverse and exhilarating diving available in South Africa.

This is the location where the warm Mozambique current mingles with the more temperate Agulhas main current, offering a marine habitat to both warm and cold water species of marine fauna and flora.

The fish diversity as well as the smaller reef creatures such as nudibranches and marine tropicals are in abundance, reef topography is stunning and sharks incl: Zambezi’s (Bull sharks), bronze whalers (copper sharks), tigers and ragged tooth are encountered on most dives. This coastline is also home to some of the most romantic stories of lost treasures aboard some of the oldest wrecks in the country dating as far back as 1552.

The annual sardine run is a must for any avid offshore / underwater photographers list of places to go, things to see, and amazing events to capture on film….it is a truly amazing phenomenon and can be experienced in its full glory based from Port St Johns. Here one comes for a lifetime experience to escape the frantic chaos of day-to-day living.

Though the diving is very temperamental on this stretch of coast, and not for the faint hearted, there are a number of window periods during the year allowing the adventure diver to take advantage of the amazing diving, research and photographic opportunities that this special place has to offer.

SCUBA DIVING IS SUBJECT TO WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS