The coastal waters around Cape Town were the best place in the world to see great white sharks. Photographer and naturalist Chris Fallows used to see 250 to 300 different great white sharks a year. Anderson Cooper saw it for himself in 2009 when he went diving without a cage in waters chummed with blood to attract sharks. A 15-foot great white swam straight toward him. Just a few years later, sightings began to dwindle, and the tourists stopped coming. The sharks disappearance mystified scientists. “Their numbers have simply plummeted. Tragically, we have all but lost the great white shark,” says Fallows. #southafrica #capetown #sharks #greatwhiteshark