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Cleaning the sea with a purpose

Cape RADD students and volunteers always love to get involved in our regular harbor cleans right on our doorstep here in Simon’s Town. Simon’s Town harbor is actually a very pleasant and relatively clean harbor compared to many. There is something very mysterious about gliding under the jetty structure in the gloomy waters, where there’s a surprising amount of life and activity. As we cruise through the harbor structure cleaning old cans, plastic wrappers and Read more…

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Sharks, Skates and Rays of South Africa

Cape RADD are compiling footage from our field days out in the ocean of some of the beautiful and under appreciated species of elasmobranch found here in South Africa. The idea behind this series of videos is to raise some more awareness of the lesser known and under researched species found in South African waters. These videos will be placed on our YouTube and Instagram platforms as a continuing feature as and when we collect Read more…

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scientific diver in kelp forest

Become a Marine Biologist – Hands on experience in the field

As a marine research and conservation organization, we love being out in the field working on our research projects and collecting data. But if there is one thing we love more, its taking our marine biology field course students out with us and teaching them the skills and techniques used to successfully collect data, and which they will develop and hopefully use at a later date in their career. Here at Cape RADD we use Read more…

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Cape RADD the LOGO

Right from the beginning when ‘Cape RADD’ was just an idea, Mike was passionate on the fact that the name and logo didn’t matter a huge amount and what was most important was making the organization recognizable for its uniqueness and quality, so in turn the name and logo would become recognizable itself. I stumbled across some notes that I made in 2017 full of ideas on what to name the Marine Science Organization, as Read more…

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4 ways to develop your marine observation Skills

Whether you’re a marine biologist, tour guide, wildlife photographer or simply just enjoy being out watching nature, it is very enjoyable to observe and experience new sightings of animals and their behaviors in the wild. To observe is ‘’the action or process of closely observing or monitoring something or someone’’. Wildlife observing is difficult in any case, hence why we have professional field guides in the Kruger or on guided walks. Marine wildlife watching can Read more…

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