The WHG conclusion was they could not recommend any mitigation suggestions as the way to avoid a shark confrontation. If you want to avoid a shark confrontation stay out of the water.
Time has passed and electronic mitigation devices are coming back. Not just the ones mentioned in the article, but real-time buoys, and permanent shoreside flashing alarms.
As long as us Homo sapiens have to confront an unsolvable problem, with the protected sharks and seals; we will keep trying. -Tom
I’d give my right arm to be in a trial like that…
What could go wrong?
It’s pretty simple, really - stay out of the water.
per the Discovery Channel reports, the best shark repellent is shark’s blood. Accordingly, shark blood in the water can keep sharks away from the area for days.
Okay, here goes...
Killer whales and sharks don’t get along.
Sharks have a great sense of smell.
Get Orka blubber, distill it down, make a spray like deet, and viola no more shark attacks.
I will say that since I’m the inventor, I will ask for volunteers to test the concoction.
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Sure. I’m not going to be the person who provides a real-life lab experiment in which the shark learns that the electrical current won’t stop him from gobbling his juicy prey.
People will use this to swim where they know there are sharks. And the sharks will appreciate the occasional hors-d’oeuvre.
Sharks and people aren’t going to live in peaceful harmony, side by side, each going his way without bothering the other as long as those par-boiled tasty morsels are on the menu.
Seal population are growing.
Shark population are growing.
The sharks are going to get big.
I was at New Symrna beach in Florida about 20 years ago and the surfers were nonchalantly surfing in between a lot of shark fins in the water as if they do it every day. I asked one of the surfers on the beach if he wasn’t worried about surfing among those sharks. His answer - “Nahh, they don’t bother you if you don’t bother them.”
Sounds very promising..a win win. In my younger days I used to swim in the ocean..a lot! Mainly Rhode Island’s Scarborough beach...a good distance swim between breakers. That was pre Jaws. I knew they were out there...but didn’t think about it. I’m hopeful for such a device for all, even though my days of open swum like that are behind me.
Amanda Wilson, General Manager of Ocean Guardian needs to drop the word “so” from her vocabulary. Sounds juvenile.