By Karen Allen, BBC News, Cape Town
You can smell them before you see them: a 20-minute boat ride out to sea from South Africa's coast takes you to False Bay, home to a huge colony of seals.
It is one of the key attractions for visitors to the Western Cape - a quarter of a million British visitors holiday here every year.
But the region is also important territory for one of the most feared predators of the deep - the great white shark.
Within minutes of our boat coming to rest, a 3.5m beast emerges from the depths below and picks off an injured seal.
This is nature: raw and real.
It feels even more raw and real being hoisted down in a small metal cage to take a closer look.
These vast creatures demand respect and, despite their serrated teeth, which are replenished at an astonishingly efficient rate, they are also misunderstood.
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