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Umhlanga Rocks - Natal Sharks Board 


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The facility offers a surround-sound multi-media presentation with special effects, shark dissections and a display hall with a large variety of lifelike replicas of sharks, fish and rays, including an 892kg/1,960lb great white shark.
Visitors who want to know more about sharks should look in at the Natal Sharks Board, a research institute established in 1964 on a hill 2km/1.25mi west of Umhlanga Rocks. As a result of its work the 250km/155mi long coast between Port Edward in the south and Zinkwazi in the north has now more than 400 nets protecting bathers against sharks.
Visitors who want to know more about sharks should look in at the Natal Sharks Board, a research institute established in 1964 on a hill 2km/1.25mi west of Umhlanga Rocks. As a result of its work the 250km/155mi long coast between Port Edward in the south and Zinkwazi in the north has now more than 400 nets protecting bathers against sharks.
Hobbies & Activities category: Education institution; Natural history museum; Science, technology attraction or museum
Natal Sharks Board
1a Herrwood Drive
Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal 4320
South Africa
1a Herrwood Drive
Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal 4320
South Africa
| Open | Closed | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | Closed | Closed | 9:00 | |
| Closed | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | ||||
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Conducted tours on Tuesdays at 9am, Wednesdays at 9 and 11am and 2.30pm and Thursdays at 9am, and also on the first Sunday in the month at 2.30pm. Additional cost to view shark dissection.
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