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.
Address:
Natal Sharks Board, 1a Herrwood Drive, Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal 4320, South Africa
Hours:
8am-4pm; Closed: Sun, Sat
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Human Right's Day - South Africa (March 21), Constitution Day - South Africa (April 27), National Women's Day - South Africa (April 19), Family Day - South Africa (April 8), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), Youth Day - South Africa (June 16), Heritage Day - South Africa (September 24), Day of Goodwill - South Africa (December 26), Day of Reconciliation - South Africa (December 16), Good Friday - Christian, Easter - Christian
Tips: Conducted tours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9am and 2pm, and Sunday at 2pm.
Guides: Audio-visual presentations available.
Facilities: Gift shop
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