AfricanDive: December 2010

Wednesday

Merry Christmas with the Hammerheads

Just in good time for christmas, we are having hammerheads with no end.
Today we saw several hundred of these beauties together with 3 Zambezis, 1 Black Tip and 3 Eaglerays.
Great vis, warm water and pretty hefty current.
A great dive for Protea Lovers who know how to do it !!!

I also want to take this opportunity to wish everybody a merry Christmas and hope that you all will get richly presented. ( preferably with diving trips to Protea Banks !!! )

A Christmas thought :
Most of my friends and family in Germany are moaning about the cold and excessive snow in Europe. I am sweating my butt off and wish i could sit by the oven with a glass of Whiskey and watch the snow fall.
I wish i could walk along the romantic Christmas market and drink a hot Gluehwein.
I miss it this time of the year.
So every situation life throws at us has an upside. This upside needs to be discovered and wholly enjoyed.
A such positive feeling will stay with you forever. Go look for it !!!!!

Thursday

We are on Facebook now

After i haven't seen Beulah for the last two weeks she has resurfaced on facebook !!!
What an effort she made there.
Anybody interested can follow our daily dive reports and we would be happy if you all would sign up as friends .
See African Dive Adventures ( business page ) or Beulah Mauz
Lots and lots and lots of stunning photos and more.....

Tigersharks on Protea Banks

Today is the day we have been waiting for. Our first tigershark visited our Baited Dive for over 80 minutes.
We started our Baited Dive number 79 for this year with 5 Zambezis and 2 Black Tips in absolutely crystal clear water. Visibility of 35m + and watertemp of 25C was the perfect start of a good dive.
Col. Mike from Underwater Safaris in Germany was my VIP and good friend of many years.
The two of us amongst all these sharks in touching distance. It truely was a shark lover's dream.
And then Mike spotted the Tiger-Lady. What a beaut !!!!!
We will be back tomorrow and we are looking for more......

I almost forgot : Hammerheads everywhere

Welcome to ADA!

ADA has been diving on Protea Banks, a world renowned shark-diving reef off the East Coast of South Africa (Kwazulu Natal).

If you are an advanced diver and would like to enjoy the thrill of spectacular diving with sharks, then you need to speak to us!

We offer a high standard of safety and professionalism. We believe in ECO-Tourism and ECO-Education and our mission is to fight for the conservation of Protea Banks, the inshore reefs and their inhabitants such as the sharks, the dolphins, the whales and all the other creatures down the line.

Come and experience the thrill of diving with wild sharks in their natural environment.

Roland and Beulah

Roland and Beulah Mauz, the owners of African Dive Adventures, have been diving Protea Banks since 1996. Beulah, born in South Africa, lived in Germany for 5 years while Roland was studying Business Administration in Kempten, Germany. During her stay in Germany, Beulah made acquaintance with its citizens and mastered the German language marvellously. Roland, raised in southern Germany, spent two years serving the German Navy after which he travelled the world. When he finished his studies in 1989, Roland and Beulah went back to Beulah's native country, South Africa. They married on the Comores where both of them got fascinated with scuba diving. Roland has done more than 2000 dives just on Protea Banks.