Posted on 07/23/2019 11:43:28 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
With all the various agendas it is going to be tough to find a solution.
The easy way out is if you are that worried just stay out of the water, but that won't fly with avid beachgoers; so some serious and expensive solutions will be forthcoming.
Just got this e-mail link;
https://www.facebook.com/events/2331810533805049/
Use the windmills in Nantucket Sound to generate an electrical powered generator which in turn powers high frequency sonar sound to scare them away. It's MA government spending is no object :)
I am thinking along the lines of a shark buoy used in Australia at some piers and beaches that will do both, detect pings from tagged sharks, and also sound an immediate alarm for a shark tagged and untagged, swimming in the area. I will try to get a cost of his buoy,and it coud be placed at beaches where the people might put in some money to maintain it.
We have many shark buoys now but they only detect acoustically tagged sharks and don't give an real time immediate warning.
What that means is if the buoy detects a shark ping it might be weeks until the hydrophone is pulled and the pings downloaded.
What people in the water need, is right now,real time warnings, which will cost more money. -Tom
PLEASE let me know about the buoy, should you fund out. = Tigers & Bulls are the real problem here.
I suspect that I can get the $$$$$$$ donated to pay for several of them.
Yours, TMN78247
I e-mailed the most knowledgeable person I know on the subject and his e- mail had a buyer beware tone to it since he talked to people in Calif. and Australia who are using these buoys.
Therre is a lot of hype to their usefulness.
The buoys start a $60,000 but other maintenance fees drive up the cost.
Drones have a short battery life and are better suited to be deployed to check out a sighting rather than patrol and look for sharks. - Tom .
“Nowadays a beach goer can take a good drone with a remote HD camera on it and fly up and down offshore looking for sharks....In fact, why aren’t lifeguards doing this, if they’re not already?”
C’mon, if you’ve ever watched Jaws you already know the answer. Like the police, lifeguards are paid by the towns which don’t want to ruin their tourist season. Same as it ever was.
Hey, check this out!
Drone Footage Captures Tiger Shark Roaming Close to Swimmers in Miami’s South Beach Shore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14SjsqjgvII
Amazing how close this monster gets to people in waist high water!!!
Excellent drone footage, and that is why I ended my local article on white sharks with:
. Expect these white shark encounters to continue when we enter the white shark’s domain; which begins when the saltwater gets above our knees. – Tom
THANKS, Captain. - I was afraid of that.
Yours, TMN78247
Those delicious Gray seals, are the problem.
IMO, if local commercial fishermen were allowed to *SSS* the seals when they first arrived, we wouldn’t be talking about sharks right now.
Hope the tornado the other day, didn’t effect you too badly. C-r-a-z-y times.
True.
The white sharks are also protected.
The white Sharks were wiped out in the past by fishermen for their jaws and meat until they received protection.
There is no solution to this problem as long as both species are protected-only mitigation solutions will be forthcoming. -Tom
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