Very nice programme, must do if you're looking for a 'different' holiday!

At the end of 2010 I spent 2 weeks with Marine Dynamics with the great white shark programme. I can only say my experience was fantastic! They have a volunteer house and during my time I shared it with one other person (it's big enough for 8). The people from MD are all very friendly and flexible and always willing to help out in any way possible.

Your day to day activities include mostly prepping the boat for departure, helping the tourists with their lifejackets / wetsuits and getting them in and out of the cage. If there are more people available to help, you can help the marine biologists with identifying the sharks and there are also opportunities to go with them on the research boat. Unfortunately I didn't have that chance, purely bad luck. I was there for only 2 weeks and during that time the boat had some mechanical problems. I think going along on that boat would have made my experience even better.

After work there's loads of other stuff going on, such as braai's (South African barbecues) and when Pepe's around there's definitely no time to get bored anyways. All in all, this was one of my best holidays so far and I can highly recommend.