Editing Cape Point (section)

==Ocean currents==
[[File:Benguela and Agulhas Currents 2.jpg|thumb|left|The courses of the warm [[Agulhas current]] (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold [[Benguela current]] (blue) along the west coast. Note that the Benguela current does not originate from Antarctic waters in the South Atlantic Ocean, but from [[upwelling]] of water from the cold depths of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] against the west coast of the continent. The two currents do not "meet" anywhere along the south coast of Africa, except as random eddies from the two currents, that arise and intermingle west of [[Cape Agulhas]].]]
Cape Point is often mistakenly claimed to be the place where the cold [[Benguela Current]] of the Atlantic Ocean and the warm [[Agulhas Current]] of the Indian Ocean collide. In fact, the meeting point fluctuates along the southern and southwestern Cape coast, usually occurring between [[Cape Agulhas]] and Cape Point. The two intermingling currents help to create the [[micro-climate]] of [[Cape Town]] and its environs. Contrary to popular mythology, the meeting point of the currents produces no obvious visual effect; there is no "line in the ocean" where the sea changes colour or looks different in some way. There are, however, strong and dangerous swells, tides and localized currents around the point and in adjacent waters. These troubled seas have witnessed countless maritime disasters in the centuries since ships first sailed here.

Fishing is good along the coast but the unpredictable swells make angling from the rocks very dangerous. Over the years scores of fishermen have been swept to their deaths from the rocky platforms by freak waves. [[False Bay]], which opens to the east and north of Cape Point, is the location of the well-known naval port of [[Simon's Town]]. The bay is also famous – or infamous – for its great white sharks, which hunt the [[Cape fur seal]]s that live in the area.