Fish Hoek Beach

This guide to Fish Hoek Beach in Cape Town opens with a question: why does a crew still haul a five-hundred-kilogram net into the sea here every morning? It traces the three shark attacks along this stretch of coast between 2004 and 2012, naming the people involved, and the emergency response that put the world's first temporary shark barrier into the water in March 2013. You'll hear how the net is built to let rays and dolphins pass while keeping out something larger. Watch for the crew at the western end of the beach at first light.