Cape Town - The City of Cape Town has warned about shark “hotspots” as holiday-makers prepare to hit the beaches.

False Bay’s waters are warming as summer draws near and the bay is filling with a diverse abundance of fish and small sharks. And this, the city reports, means more great white sharks closer to shore during the months ahead.

The bay’s most-feared creatures were last in the news in May, when researchers controversially satellite tagged 36 white sharks along the Cape coastline. Since their tagging, a number of the sharks have swum vast distances to waters off KwaZulu-Natal and Madagascar on the east coast, and Namibia on the west coast.

Their movements can be tracked by members of the public on the website sharks-ocearch.verite.com

Researchers have learnt from aerial surveys that there can be up to 42 great whites in the bay at one time, although numbers change all the time.