Posted on 04/20/2021 9:58:05 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Cape Cod groups are looking to test out electronic shark deterrent technology this summer, including a nonprofit that is hoping to roll out a protective “virtual shark net.”
Cape Cod Ocean Community Inc. — a nonprofit that formed after a man was killed by a shark in Cape waters three years ago — is working on shark surveillance testing projects this summer.
“We’ve been thinking about shark barriers since Day One, ever since Arthur Medici died,” said Heather Doyle, a co-founder of the nonprofit organization.
Ahead of this summer, which promises to be full of shark sightings as the great whites return to the Cape, Doyle said the group is looking at testing out shark deterrent technology — including a protective “virtual shark net” from the Australia-based company Ocean Guardian.
While Ocean Guardian’s personal shark deterrent devices have been rising in popularity along the Cape, the nonprofit is instead eyeing the company’s long-range shark deterrent system called the BOAT01. The device with a buoy can float out behind a boat and create a safe swimming area, according to the company.
Users can daisy-chain up to four devices to create a larger swimming zone.
“We’re very aggressively thinking about how many we can get to try out the daisy chain, and test it out for ourselves,” Doyle said.
“We do have some places on private property where we know we can roll it out and use drones for validation,” she added, noting that they’re big advocates for using drones to spot sharks close to shore.
Doyle stressed that the group is “trying to break glass and move the needle” on the Cape.
“We want to move from the unknown to the known,” she said. “We should be trying things, we shouldn’t be doing nothing. We’re on borrowed time for another Arthur Medici.”
Ocean Guardian also has an even larger-scale barrier system to create a shark-free zone at private resort beaches, and in designated diving and snorkeling locations.
An Ocean Guardian representative said there are “interested parties on the Cape hoping to run their own trial of our technology.”
“Our technology has always been very successful in trials,” added Amanda Wilson of Ocean Guardian. “It’s been conclusively proven that our technology is successful in stopping great white sharks.”
In a South Africa study for the company’s shark barrier tech, white sharks in the area moved away from the system and remained out of view until the system was switched off. Then when the system was turned off, the white sharks returned.
The state of Maine is putting out about 20 shark detection buoys this year after a fatal attack there last summer at Bailey Island. I expect Maine to find out they have more white sharks in their waters than they anticipated.
The summer of 2021 should be a big white shark news season. - Tom
Hooper !
I would be more worried about the newer versions that have laser beams on their heads
“the nonprofit is instead eyeing the company’s long-range shark deterrent system called the BOAT01”
So, we’re gonna need a bigger BOAT01?
Aren’t liberals supposed to be all about nature, natural progression, animals and trees and stuff?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI
Remember, these people vote.
Don’t wait for me !!!!!
There’s so much we can learn from sharks.
Their work on a Covid vaccine is amazing.
Also on Cape Cod they are selling pods to attach to surfboards etc to ward off white sharks.- Tom
They also buy/invest in inventors ideas on their show as well.
MA doesn’t need shark deterrent.
It needs politician and bureaucrat deterrent.
Let’s send Maxine Waters there for a ‘free vacation’...............
Custom order some big enough from Havahart, bait ‘em with big bills, and leave them around the state legislature...
Surprised the RATS didn’t just pass a new law and regulations making it illegal for sharks to bite people. If if they do they get fined or pay extra taxes. That seems to be their answer to every problem.
I would think the sharks will treat the bouys as food and try to eat them. Would be like a water skier, which is a nice snack for a great white.
Or even the ill tempered sea bass.
Good one!
They also attend town hall meetings, and on Cape Cod the interactions with opposing views got so hot and heavy many towns won't have open meetings for people of differing opinions to have their say on how to solve the white shark ,seal, bathers problem. -Tom
Let Stacy Adams go snorkeling out there. That’ll scare them off.
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