Posted on 06/17/2015 6:20:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When lifeguards at a popular Southern California surfing spot decided to use a high-tech drone to keep swimmers safe from shark attacks, they got a chilling eyeful.
The drone flies up about a 100 feet, looks down at a wide area and when they see shadows they can focus on them. In a matter of minutes the lifeguards can see just how many sharks may be lurking just yards from the shoreline.
“This morning, we launched it and 10 minutes later, we knew there were 10 to 12 sharks in the Surfside [Beach] area,” said Chief Joe Bailey, a Seal Beach lifeguard.
A dozen sharks may sound scary, but Bailey hasn’t closed the beach.
“If we get bigger sharks or we get sharks that are aggressive, we are going to close the water. But right now, we have only seen sharks that are 5 to 6-feet long, non-aggressive, acting like normal sharks, feeding on bottom fish, doing exactly what we would expect them to do,” he said. Bailey said he has flown the drone regularly for the past month.
On Monday morning, the drone recorded video of a juvenile great white in waist-high water at Surfside. Fortunately, no swimmers were in the water at the time.
Surfside is going to remain open to the public, but authorities have started posting signs warning beach-goers the sharks are out there.
Some of locals aren’t taking any chances.
“I was planning on going surfing tomorrow and definitely not now,” said one woman. “Sharks are kind of like my biggest fear so that’s like very daunting for me,” said another.
What always got me was while swimming, seeing a fish that was bigger than me.
At the pool.
So.... I wonder how foam core and fiberglass taste to a shark ?
Dude needs braces, them incisors have some space between them.
Needs a little more seal.
I have heard they test things out by biting. And I can’t imagine they would find a fiberglass coated polyurethane or polystyrene foam board to their liking. I think the fact that you never see a board with two bites in it is proof to that. :-)
Note, the shark took out one of the three fins. It probably stuck him/her in the roof of the mouth and pissed him/her off. :-)
Arm the drones!
De-shark the world.
Serves it right, ruining a perfectly good board, and scaring the Shiite out of the surfer. Oh well,surfer probably wearing baggy pants anyway.
Yeah.
A dude has gotta have serious CHEST HAIR to surf that close to one of Bobby Darin’s pals!..................(sorry...)
Maybe it was Jason Greenslate, that jackass who was laughing about surfing all day while living on lobster, paid for with taxpayer funded food stamps.
lol!
But no, they have to get all "I think I will go bite off a couple of legs and a side of board."
Kills the buzz.
Well, I guess to be fair, I had a nice shark steak two days ago at a Seafood restaurant. So the sharks would probably prefer we humans limit ourselves to eating those green things that grow on the land. :-P
Actully, I spent more time body surfing and snorkeling in the kelp beds when teen than at school, really, never entered my mind I could be et.
Now I mostly gaze at the ocean when I get the chance, and no longer swim out past the breakers.
Sad, really, but it is what it is.
I wonder if the killer tomatoes can smell pizza on their victim's breath.
If your tomatoes have 6 rows of teeth, get different tomatoes, now.
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