"The report praised efforts like Wellfleet’s as the only measures with proven effectiveness in reducing interactions between sharks and humans. High-tech solutions like drones, balloons and sonar buoys and deterrents like electromagnetic and magnetic devices on people, surfboards or those used as a shark-proof barrier were not far enough along in efficacy for towns to consider investing millions of dollars. Some solutions to reduce populations of seals or sharks were illegal under current law while others were too expensive, without any track record of results where they were tried."
So we have just about reached the wait till next year phase. - Tom
Bigger “NO SHARKS BEYOND THIS POINT” signs should do the trick.
Call Quinn
There is one foolproof method of avoiding shark attacks. Stay on the beach.
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Cape Cod shark!
“It’s a huge, monumental change in how we recreate in the ocean.”
Yeah, you can’t swim or surf anymore.
It’s a non-recreation ocean now.
“But David Pike of Wellfleet saw something in the Woods Hole Group report that he liked. In analyzing the technological alternatives, Morrison suggested layering detection technology with a high-flying plane giving the big picture, balloons with high definition cameras and drones to check out anything suspicious....”
Huge gov largess and NO ONE will go in the water.
I’ve worked for local governments since 1991. I started out as an entry level engineering assistant and through college and work experience, moved all the way up to City Manager.
Based on that, I concluded years ago that the movie Jaws is a classic case study for understanding the workings of local governments.
Findings: You’re going to need a bigger Cape.
$50k. For $50, I’d have given them proven advice. Don’t swim in the sharks’ meat market.
Maybe a solution would be to divert some of those slave ships and lure the sharks back out into the mid-Atlantic using tried (according to a demoncrat congressman) and true chumming techniques...
Sell “Bang Sticks” at kiosks all along the beach, for swimmers to use against the sharks.
Sell “Bang Sticks” at kiosks all along the beach, for swimmers to use against the sharks.
Hi Captain.
You know that buzzards, like sharks gotta eat.
5.56mm
Although the season seems to be over the swimmers may have gone but the sharks remain.
The long awaited shark mitigation report has been discussed and it is apparent it is an unsolvable problem as long as white sharks are protected, and just about every mitigation suggestion has a downside.
A 4 minute video discusses it here:
www.capecodtoday.com/article/2019/10/26/249704-LCTV-Shark-Report-No-Perfect-Solution