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Nurdle spill appears around the Cape Peninsula

Seal Snorkeling, Cape Town, South Africa, Hout Bay

Ever heard of a nurdle? Nurdles - the raw material used in plastic production Local residents and organisations in Cape Town have been collecting these teeny plastic pellets over the last few days, as hundreds of thousands of them have been washing up on our shores. These resin pellets are the raw material used in plastic production, and… Read More

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Tagged with: beach clean up, cape town, Marine Protected Area, nurdle, nurdles, South Africa

Seal Snorkeling Surviving COVID-19

Navigating the effects of COVID-19 on the Tourism Industry Looking forward! Animal Ocean needs YOUR support! With the emergence of COVID-19 the 2020 winter (quiet!) season in Cape Town arrived unexpectedly, forcing tourism businesses to close 3 months earlier than usual. The Tourism Industry worldwide is experiencing massive losses, and… Read More

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Tagged with: Animal Ocean, Cape fur seal, Cape Fur Seal diving, cape town, Seal Snorkeling

Lockdown Life: Local Wildlife

Local Wildlife - What do these 3 creatures have in common? They are all local wildlife residents of Kalk Bay, Cape Town - and have made for some fascinating study subjects during the lockdown in South Africa. Steve Benjamin has been photographing the resident Cape fur seals of Kalk Bay Harbour, the beautiful endemic… Read More

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Tagged with: cape town, Kalk Bay, lockdown, Seal, Seal Snorkeling, Sunbird

SEAL RESCUE – Animal Ocean Saves Baby Seals!

A real Animal Ocean Archive story – Cape fur seal pup rescue December 2014 It has become legend amongst the staff of Animal Ocean that the period between Christmas and New Year’s is a week (or at least a few days) that will most likely mean a break from the rush of the summer Seal Snorkeling season. Why is this so, when it is a period that… Read More

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Tagged with: Cape fur seal, Cape Fur Seal diving, cape town, seal pup, seal rescue, Seal Snorkeling

Stranded seal on the beach? Here’s what to do

“Recently when I was walking along the high tide mark on Muizenberg Beach with my family, our dog ran ahead of us and sniffed at something in the distance. As we got closer, we saw that she had found a seal! The seal looked quite weak and thin and wasn’t moving at all. No one else around seemed to have noticed it yet. We didn’t know what… Read More

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Tagged with: Cape fur seal, Giving back, Injuries, Seal, Stranded

Animal Ocean helping Fur Seals

We at Animal Ocean know that our guest want to know that the interest of our Fur seals to come first, before the business of running Seal Snorkeling trips. There are many eco-tourism business across the world that are only gaining from animal interaction trips and not looking after the animals they rely on. There is a strong trend toward more… Read More

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Tagged with: beach clean up, Giving back, research, seal rescue

Fur Seal Pup rescue

Seal Pup Rescue We recently found a Cape Fur seal pup, born at Duiker Island, Hout Bay, with a piece of plastic around its neck ! This little Fur seal is only 5 months old and it already being affected by our litter. Plastic in our oceans is a MASSIVE problem and we see it everyday on the seal snorkeling trips of Animal Ocean. This is a sad… Read More

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Tagged with: Cape Fur Seal diving, seal pup, Seal Snorkeling, Things to do

NEW Marine Protected Areas for South Africa

South Africa new Marine Protected Area's animal ocean steven benjamin

New Marine Protected Areas (MPA's) for ampills.com. South Africa - Breaking news ! New Marine Protected Areas for South Africa. The South Africa government has approved 20 new Marine Protected Area's (MPA's) for South Africa. Acting Environmental Affairs Minister Derek Hanekom says a network of 20 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) will considerably… Read More

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Tagged with: Marine Protected Area, MPA

African Penguin Rescue by Animal Ocean

Staff at Animal Ocean spotted an injured African Penguin resting inside Hout Bay harbour, yesterday morning. The young bird, which is called a "Blue", was resting with other seabirds such as Cape Cormorants and White Breasted Cormorants. We think that this birds leg was broken by an encounter with a Cape Fur seal, who are known to play and kill… Read More

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Tagged with: African Penguin, Giving back, Penguin, rescue, SANCCOB

Two Oceans Aquarium uses Steve Benjamin’s image as entrance.

The Two Oceans Aquarium has re-done their entrance arch with one of my slip-level images and it’s massive! The idea for this project was too take visitors underwater, without them getting wet. Structurally this arched image, will bring visitors from the V&A Waterfront as the leave the surface and bring them underwater. Image installation at… Read More

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Tagged with: Photography, two oceans aquarium