With shark talks over the new year.

Egypt, the sea and sharks

Shortly before his vacation in Soma Bay, René Näf contacted the Orca Divers diving centre and suggested that they give lectures on sharks during his stay as a special goodie for the guests. The Orca and Breakers teams were immediately on board and a 45-minute session was arranged. As well-behaved as the Breakers were in announcing the event in their app and the Orcas put up flyers at the base, the hotel managers unfortunately forgot to mention the lecture during the evening speech.

Nevertheless, René was delighted to have an audience of around twenty people – mostly divers – on December 28, 2023. For obvious reasons, they were very interested in the difficult situation of sharks.

As many of those interested only found out about the exciting offer afterwards, René and the diving center spontaneously scheduled a second date for 6 January 2024. This time, more than thirty guests attended, including some with a lot of shark experience. Nevertheless, the feedback clearly showed that awareness of the threat posed by sharks is still far from common knowledge. This makes such information events and low-threshold access all the more important.

As the audience diligently scanned the QR code to the homepage and collected our business cards, we can now hope that one or two people will soon actively support us as team members.

The Presentations

How much shark knowledge can you fit into one lesson? With good preparation and an interested audience, you can not only cover the “A to Z” from “anatomy” to “teeth”, but also show exciting videos. In both presentations, René first briefly introduced the Sharkproject association and our work. After a brief digression on the anatomy and teeth of these top predators, we moved on from the importance of sharks in the ecosystem to diving with sharks. The topic of “fear of sharks” (which is completely unfounded – respect and correct behavior are crucial!) The threat posed by sharks and what we can do about it was not neglected either.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Orca team and the Breakers marketing team for their excellent cooperation.