is out on YouTube and on their social media platform.

Offshore Africa is proud to be associated with Behind the Mask and as a sponsor of 1 of BTM dive experiences as part of their signature trips for 2025.

We have already allocated the dates for the lucky winner of the Sardine run 2025 expedition and look forward to meeting him or her very soon.

https://offshoreportstjohns.com/sardine-run/

Be sure to watch the ALIVE video followed by the video below to stand a chance of winning and joining us next season.

https://behind-the-mask.com/

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Sardine run with Offshore Africa

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Blacktip Swim School Port St Johns

We have been super busy recently with a lengthy visit to KwaZulu-Natal, which was exciting, inspiring and exhausting all at the same time. But its been amazing working together!!!!!!

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What a special time for us at Offshore Africa featuring in not 1 but 2 amazing media articles this month.  We are so blown away!!!

We feature in the Sunday Times travel magazine released 12th September 2021.  The magazine is a feature within the Sunday Times newspaper.

Special thanks to the incredibly brave Thembalethu Zulu from Sunday Times travel magazine for joining Offshore Africa for the sardine run 2021 season. https://offshoreportstjohns.com/sardine-run/

Her story is inspiring and written from the heart and is just so amazing!!!

Thanks again to ECPTA (Eastern Cape Parks & Tourism agency) for putting the adventure together with us https://visiteasterncape.co.za/.

We love what we do and we love introducing people to our world.  Making a difference, no matter how large or small, is always at the forefront of our hearts and minds and our annual sardine run is such a passion for us in being able to do all of this and more…..

Special thanks, as always, to our incredible team that work with us each season, our eye in the sky, our in-water guides, our spotters and our base crew.  Simply amazing!!

Once again, special thanks to the entire team at Port St Johns River Lodge for making it all so easy and wonderful for our clients and our crew on a daily basis https://portstjohnsriverlodge.co.za/

You all rock!!

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Offshore Africa features in the September edition of the SkyWays – Airlink September 2021 magazine.

Special thanks to Elise Kirsten for a brilliantly written article.  It was an enormous pleasure to spend time with you and to work with you again for your second visit with us during our annual sardine run https://offshoreportstjohns.com/sardine-run/

An extra special thanks goes to ECPTA (Eastern Cape Parks & Tourism agency) https://visiteasterncape.co.za/

for showcasing our business and our passion – the annual sardine run in South Africa.

Special thanks, as always, to Port St Johns River Lodge and all their amazing staff, who have successfully hosted our clients in excess of 10 years in Port St Johns during our annual sardine run. https://portstjohnsriverlodge.co.za/ 

September is tourism month in South Africa and what perfect timing for the release of these articles.

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Sardine run professional association

Is a group of highly experienced sardine run operators who have banded together to ensure that the highest standard of the sardine run, as a valuable tourism product, is upheld.

Offshore Africa, the only experienced operator based in Port St Johns, is proud to be a member of the “sardine run professional association” that has been formed.

Our mission is to provide our clients with an unparalleled nature experience, while promoting the conservation of our unique ocean wildlife and upholding our operations to the highest standards in quality and safety.

Take a look at our association website for what the group stands for, our aims and plans for the future.

http://www.sardinerunassociation.org/south-africa-sardine-run-association-membership/

There are many aspects to planning a sardine run trip and the experience level of an operator is a vital component in this.

In addition, knowledge in:

• marine animal behaviour
• ocean conditions
• weather conditions

Are extremely important factors to ensure safety and overall enjoyment of all clients undertaking this trip.

The sardine run is an event of Nature and as such, the above criteria plays a key role in the day to day planning and running of this trip.

Feel free to come back to this site as updates take place.

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When Rob and I got the call late in the afternoon of 22nd December 2018 to say that there was a shark stranded on the sandbank at the river mouth with the outgoing tide, we went to see if we could help. Luckily our boat was already in the water which saved us time here.

We had no idea how long the shark had been thrashing around on the shallow sandbank for and time was of the absolute essence here.

After quite some time of Rob trying to pull a very tired, heavily pregnant bull shark weighing approx 180kg on his own and with me trying to keep the boat side of it together, we enrolled the extra and very much appreciated assistance of John Costello as a topman, to allow us to focus on other things going on.  We then enrolled an extra pair of hands with our friend and fellow resident and lodge owner Vernon Malyon for extra power and with this all in place, we managed to pull her into slightly deeper water.

The conditions were truly awful with us trying to keep the boat from running onto the sand bank and trying to keep the boat in the deep water channel, as the outgoing tide was sucking down the river mouth and out to sea at a rapid rate.

The light was fading, mist had pulled in with a steady bit of rain just to add to it all.

After at least 1.5 hours, we managed to get her into the deeper water and revive a very tired and stressed animal, to say the least.

Rob kept her head into the current to allow water to flow over her gills and to allow her to get her strength back.

She swam away strong to live another day and with luck still give birth to the pups waiting inside her tummy.

We waited on the sandbank until we had made sure that she had definitely entered the deep channel zone before moving off.

For us, the best Christmas present in the world to be able to assist a shark in distress.

Bull shark females give live birth at river mouth areas in the summer periods along our coastline and the pups are then left to fend for themselves.  Acoustic tagged juveniles have been found to spend at least the first 2 years of their lives in the river system, moving back and forth between the river and ocean areas.

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Thank you to our client Philipp Oppermann for sharing these stunning images captured from sardine run 2018.

A day in the life of our winter months and the annual South African sardine run.

Come and join us during our winter months and experience the great sardine migration .

Contact us https://offshoreportstjohns.com/contact/ and join us for an experience of a lifetime

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Every 6 months we are privileged and super excited to be a part of ATAP (acoustic tracking array platform) and inshore ocean research work off Port St John’s with scientist Paul Cowley from SAIAB.

The 3 receivers off Agate Terrace in Port St John’s are recovered and 3 new ones deployed.  The excitement comes when the data is retrieved.

We retrieved the 3 a few days back and the data is just in.  How exciting.

Here it is…….

6 Bronze Whalers (copper sharks)
3 Diamond Rays
3 Duck bill Rays
2 Dusky kob
2 giant kingfish
2 leervis (garrick)
15 Raggedtooth sharks
2 Spotted grunter
1 Tiger shark
2 Great White sharks
2 Bull sharks (Zambezis)
2 unknown tags – an unknown animal/s with an acoustic tag but information not shared by the scientist that tagged the animal.

Ocean research is hugely rewarding and vital in studying what is going on with animal movements, how often they are in the same area, what dates and where they pop up next.

Follow us for the next retrieval and deployment https://offshoreportstjohns.com/offshore-africa-instagram-feed/

Check what the next data download reveals.

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