Category Archives: Diving with Sharks

Back from Bahamas!

Lesley Rochat Photography - Bahamas

Surrounded by lemon sharks, tiger sharks, nurse sharks, reef sharks, and playing with spotted dolphins in the gin clear, azure blue ocean of the Bahamas, against the backdrop of postcard sunsets, shared with wonderful people from all corners of the globe, was my recent privilege enjoyed. This exciting photographic expedition was all part of the…

Beautiful Sevengill Sharks Need Protection

Lesley Rochat Photography - Sevengill Sharks Need Protection

I’m featuring in a SABC 2, 50.50. production, which the warm and passionate, full of energy, Jacqui Logie, is directing. The weather put hold to Jacqui filming me for three weeks in a row but finally the Cape winter weather smiles on us and we are on a Pisces Divers boat, heading for Pyramid Rock…

Beautiful day and the Smooth Hound Shark

Lesley Rochat Photography - Self Portrait

Sleeping in is difficult for me in general and more so on a beautiful day. “Jeremy, Lesley here, get your butt out of bed, it’s a stunning day and the ocean beckons!” Was the sum of my call to my good friend Jeremy Jowell, well known and talented photographer and journalist. Windmill Beach it was,…

Awesome Dive with Seven Gill Sharks!

Lesley Rochat Photography - Seven Gill Sharks

It’s a beautiful day in False Bay and I’m on Mike’s boat (of Pisces Divers), heading for the seven gill shark dive. I confess I live here but for various reasons I have not done the dive yet. As a shark conservationist it has got to the embarrassing stage: “What, you haven’t dived with them…