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Article: SHARK fetish.(Travel)
- Article from:
- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2006
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The city on the Indian Ocean once was plagued by shark attacks, peaking in the summer of 1957-58, when there were six in 100 days.
Like almost everybody who read Benchley's best-seller and saw the 1975 blockbuster movie, I am strangely compelled by the torpedo-shaped marine predators. They can smell prey from almost a kilometre away, and in some species, their multiple rows of teeth, when lost, grow back in a matter of weeks.
When I discovered that Durban's 96km coast is lined with nets maintained by the Natal Sharks Board (www.shark.co.za) and that the organisation offers tours and shark dissections, I decided I had to come to South Africa's ...