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Mark _australia said..
Gonna name that one the douche and dance then…?

Seajuice said..
All of this running around, spending heaps of money looking for a magic shark deterrent sort of makes me laugh.
I have read a few books on shark attacks from when I was young from the late 1970s. A lot of the attacks occured from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Now that the fences, (I'm too scared to say nets in case someone gets upset), have been removed and fishing rules & regs have been updated, pollution, conservation etc have helped fish, penguins, seal, whale populations increase. Then obviously the shark population will rise by taking advantage of it. So now we have history repeating itself & we will hear of shark attacks quite often. Not to forget a higher population of water users. Although that will be kept in balance by the attacks & fear of entering the water.
Most of us are just focussed on the Shark deterrent and forget about what is used & has been used on dry land as a wild animal deterrent. Fences, nets, weapons, noise, visual & scare tactics. The two others are to run & hide when an animal is spotted either by you are someone else or a device like a tower, or aerial devices like planes, helicopters & drones. Then their is body armour & camouflage.
So how are we able to stop a shark attack to almost 100%? Well again it makes me laugh when everyone is looking for only one or maybe two answers.
For me the best answer is all of the above deterrents. Obviously that will be too expensive for our government. So what is the cheapest & most easiest for our government to implement? Signs! Signs to tell you not to enter the water! If you do, you will be fined! Yay. More government revenue at the inconvenience of the public. Wait & see. And no. You won't be approached by someone in authority to get your identification do they can hand you a fine. It will be an AI camera with facial recognition that will see you enter the water. Then see you returning back to a car park or pathway.
Most of us already know there are AI cameras looking at Rock fishers and sends a lifesaving alarm if they get washed off the rocks.
What I would like to see is the return of better shark fences, nets that are monitored for aquatic life. Not just left for weeks or months without maintenance.
The other is shark tag receivers placed in entrances to just about every lakes, bays & rivers to monitor sharks entering & exiting. There are none in my lake entrance to let me know if they have entered for me to make a decision where I would like to go paddleboarding, wing foiling & fishing.
Understanding that for every tagged bull shark there are probably two or up to over hundred more depending on the size of the entrance. But it tells me they are there. No good for me if a receiver station is only in the ocean when I'm in the lake.
And no good having drones flying over dirty, reflective water that don't see anything below the surface. It wouldn't have stopped the shark that bit my foot whilst surfing. Lol.

colas said..






In dictatorships, maybe.

Musk is actually behaving exactly like an oligarch, he uses any means possible, including massive corruption, to make business by getting profits while making taxpayers support the costs. Starlink could only exist because the (private) cost to launch via Falcon9 was heavily state-subsidized... as in your typical oligarchy.

An oligarch is defined as an individual who uses concentrated wealth to exert direct control over political outcomes, public policy, critical national infrastructure, and information channels, often blurring the line between private interest and state power. QED.

jn1 said..
I'm still trying to understand the connection. The only related thing that Elon Musk seems to have with ocean sports, is a fish face.