You will often be asked to speak to the tourists before and after the trip, and ask them to fill out a questionnaire to contribute to our social perception study.
When at sea on the tourist boat you will be helping with collection of our daily monitoring data, including taking dorsal fin ID photographs. You will learn how to record data, how to identify individual sharks, how to determine different behaviours and how to estimate size. Volunteers also play a role when in the cage by determining whether the shark is male or female.
You will not in any regard replace a member of staff by dealing with the tourists whilst on shark cage diving trips, or by having to clean the boat or wetsuits after a trip, for example. However, we do encourage you to chat with the guests to educate and promote awareness about Great White Sharks, our research and our shark conservation initiatives when the opportunity arises.
