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Durban Travel Guide: Natal Sharks Board

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Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa

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This board is supposedly the only one of its kind in the world. At its headquarters in Umhlanga, visitors can watch a video presentation and shark dissection—hold your nose if you're sensitive to smells. For the more adventurous, there are early-morning trips out to sea in a Sharks Board ski-boat to observe firsthand how staff go about their daily servicing of nets off Durban's Golden Mile. Although the nets cover less than 10% of KwaZulu-Natal's coastline, some 1,200 sharks are caught in them every year. All live sharks are tagged and released. Shark dissections: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9 am and 2 pm, Sunday at 2 pm.

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