One Predator Scares Away White Sharks Even More Than Orcas
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Two orcas known as Port and Starboard have been observed hunting and killing a great white shark near Gansbaai.
From 2017 to 2025 there were 11 documented occurrences of orca predation on white sharks, mostly recorded as washed-up carcasses.
In 2017 Port and Starboard killed and eviscerated 17 smaller sevengill sharks in a single day, an event seen by researchers.
Humans remove an estimated 44 white sharks per year from coastal South Africa through the KwaZulu‑Natal shark control program and longline bycatch.
South Africa enacted legal protection for the great white shark in 1991, the first nation to do so.