Incredible footage has captured a pod of angry dolphins chasing a Great White Shark away from a bay where one of the man-eaters recently tore a swimmer apart.
The drone footage, uploaded to YouTube on October 2, shows the 10-foot hunting shark moving stealthily into the same waters popular with swimmers and surfers where tragic Kimon was viciously attacked.
Uncomfortable with the shark’s presence, the pod of 15 dolphins swim out to intercept and surround the predator, and make it very clear that it is unwelcome.
A lone Great White appears in the shallow waters of Plettenberg Bay
A pod of dolphins appear and are seen to ‘chase’ the shark out of the bay
One plucky dolphin even swims directly over the Great White’s back as a warning, and the shark realises that its cover is blown and swims off.
Marine mammal scientist Gwen Penry, 40, of the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth said: ‘Dolphins can be very aggressive when they need to be.
‘They are not always the happy and smiling animals that people believe but are also top predators and can be very aggressive around big sharks.
‘The Great White knows it is no match for the far more manoeuverable and faster dolphins in shallow water and will not waste its energy on them.
‘The dolphins are letting the shark know it has been seen and that they are there and just making it clear that it would be wiser to move off elsewhere’ she said.
The video comes as the distraught partner of tragic mother Kimon Bisogno, 38, spoke for the first time of his devastation at the loss of the love of his life.
Restaurant owner Kimon was attacked and killed by a Great White as she swam just off the beach of her holiday hotel in shallow waters just a fortnight ago.
Plettenberg Bay has been hit by two Great White killings in three months on their normally safe shores with the latest being Kimon – known to all as Kiki.
She and her Italian born partner of 14 years Diego had driven 300 miles from Cape Town to the Beacon Island Hotel for a long Bank Holiday weekend.
She had gone for a dip at 7.30am as Diego got their daughter Luna ready for the beach when a relative called him to say that a big shark had attacked her.
The estimated 13-foot-long Great White had bitten her just once but it was enough to kill petite Kimon, whose body was later recovered by a lifeboat crew.
This week, Diego spoke to YOU magazine in South Africa and told how he bravely ignored the pleas of rescuers not to go and look at Kimon’s body.
The chef also revealed his last haunting moments with the mother of his child.
He recounted: ‘I gave her this beautiful kiss. And that was the last time I saw her. She was so beautiful. She was wearing her red swimming costume.
‘She couldn’t wait and I told her that I would be down soon’ he said.
Diego got a call to his room, explaining: ‘It was just a bit of a blur. I rushed down and was told a shark had attacked Kiki. And that was the way she went’.
When the lifeboat crew recovered Kimon they warned him not to go to her.
He told the magazine: ‘I didn’t care. I wanted to be there. And when she came out she was so beautiful despite her injuries. She died a quick death.
‘She looked so lovely when they pulled her out and the images of her weren’t horrifying’ and he said before he left the resort he ‘made peace with the sea’.
The Great White shark is surrounded by dolpins as it swims in the shallow water
More dolphins emerge to escort the shark away, as it makes its escape from the bay
Diego said: ‘We put flowers on the beach to commemorate the place where she died. Life is unfair. Lots of things happen which we can’t change so we have to accept it.
‘She always had a smile on her face. She would not have wanted us to grieve but to celebrate her’ he said after returning to their Cape Town pizzeria.
Former lifeboatman Bruce Noble of the Plett Shark Action Committee said that judging by the bite wound on Kimon, the Great White was 13 feet long.
He said that more lifeguards had been moved into the area along with shark spotters at high vantage points and a number of drones are now in use.
Mr Noble said: ‘Shark’s come with the territory but very rarely attack and we have been very unfortunate to have two fatal attacks in a short space of time.
‘Measures have been taken to keep our tourists and locals safe from sharks and we constantly monitor their activity and presence on our beaches’.
Great Whites grow up to 20 feet long and can weigh over 2 tonnes and have up to 300 razor sharp serrated teeth arranged in rows which give their prey little escape.
In the last 25 years, 37 swimmers and surfers have been killed in shark attacks off South Africa, with 10 victims in the last decade.