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“Shark Alley,” Gansbaai, South Africa: Great white sharks
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“Shark Alley,” Gansbaai, South Africa: Great white sharks

“Shark Alley” is a narrow channel between two small islands off the coast of Gansbaai, a charming fishing village and holiday destination east of Cape Town. It is also home to one of the densest populations of great whites in the world—and so if you’re keen to cage dive with this much-maligned and misunderstood beauty of the deep, here’s a good place to do it.

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