Robyn Spencer was waiting to board a dolphin watching boat with her family in Rudee Inlet Saturday morning when a large gray animal poked its nose out of the water.
The DANcast welcomes Allison Vitsky Sallmon, an accomplished underwater photographer and the founder and president of Dive Into the Pink.
Since becoming certified in the early 1990s, Allison has immersed herself in the diving world, including cold-water diving and underwater photography. Her stories and images have been widely published, and in 2021, she was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame. As a breast cancer survivor, she founded Dive Into the Pink, a nonprofit that engages the dive community to raise funds for cancer research and survivor support.
Allison is a longtime Alert Diver contributor; read her recent article Photography for Philanthropy at dan.org/alert-diver/article/photography-for-philanthropy. Learn more about Dive Into the Pink at diveintothepink.org.
On his fifth birthday, I introduced Kane Johnstone to white sharks by taking him on the cage-diving boat I worked on here in Mossel Bay, as a treat. This was back when I was observing white sharks daily for our mark-recapture study, and we had pretty much guaranteed sightings every time we went out.
Shark attacks in 2025 were back to a normal level after a down year in 2024. California continues to overindex in unprovoked attacks, and in 2025 recorded the only shark-related death of the year in the U.S..
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