The dive site Seal Island is an offshore site in the northern False Bay, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Understand

See also: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay#Understand

This is a place you go to see Great White sharks.

Position

• S34°08.25’ E018°34.95’ 1 Seal Island

This site is not in a Marine Protected Area (2004). A permit is not required.

Name

The island where the seals breed has been known as Seal Island for a long time, and is identified by that name on the official maps

Depth

Shallow - less than 2 m in the cage.

Topography

The island and offshore reefs are granite of the Peninsula pluton, and have the familiar rounded look of other similar outcrops.

Geology: Late Pre-Cambrian granite of the Peninsula pluton.

Get in

See also: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay#Boat dives

Boat dive with licensed Shark Cage Diving charter.

The site is about 12 km from Kalk Bay harbour, ?? km from Simon's Town Jetty, 14 km from Miller's Point, or 25 km from Harbour Island, Gordon's Bay

See

Marine life

See also: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay#The marine ecology

These dives are for one purpose only: to see sharks. Other fish may be attracted to the bait, but this is not what you do this dive to see.

Suggested Routes

Get in the cage, watch for sharks, get out again. Repeat if you have the time.

Stay safe

See also: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay#Stay safe

Hazards

No significant hazards as you dive in the cage.

Skills

No special skills required. Cage dives are usually done on snorkel.

Equipment

See also: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay#Equipment

All you need is wet suit, weights, mask, snorkel and camera

Nearby

• 1 Choirboys Reef
• 2 Drop Zone
• 3 East Shoal
• 4 Moddergat
• 5 Sterretjies Reef
• 6 York Shoal
• 7 SAS Fleur
• 8 Offshore Barges – North Barge
• 9 Steenbras Deep - South Pinnacles
• 10 Blue Flame Pinnacles
• 11 SATS General Botha
• 12 Off-Whittle Ridge
• 13 SAS Bloemfontein
• 14 Whittle Rock
• 15 Bruce's Mark
• 16 Deep South Whittle Reef
• 17 Anvil Rock
• 18 SS Lusitania
• 19 Rocky Bank

Back to the Alphabetical list of sites, or list of reef dive sites in the northern False Bay offshore area

Other regional dive sites:

• Dive sites of Table Bay and approaches,
• Dive sites of the Cape Peninsula west coast
• Dive sites of the Cape Peninsula east coast
• Dive sites of False Bay east coast
• Fresh water dive sites of the Cape Town Metropolitan Area