Someone's taking the piss here:

"Anecdotal reports from fishermen suggest that sharks are able to recognise individual vessels, meaning these export vessels will result in a concentration of the shark population when the vessels are present as the sharks seek an 'easy' meal."

Does anyone REALLY expect that a shark can 'scope' individual ships & 'remember' it's a live export ship with potentially free meals being thrown overboard?

Anybody found/seen/smelt half eaten sheep carcasses floating on the water in/near Perth?

I'm pretty sceptic about this,,,well this is an understatment...more bull****!
It sound more like channel 7&9 at 6.30pm.

This isnt bollocks believe it or not, last year in the red sea area the was a number of fatalities and attacks, from what i remember about 3 people died a german, a russian, and a brit all holiday makers, and approx 5 attacks non fatal, the local authorities linked it to dead sheep being dumped from a live export ship on route from australia to the middle east.

cauncy said...

This isnt bollocks believe it or not, last year in the red sea area the was a number of fatalities and attacks, from what i remember about 3 people died a german, a russian, and a brit all holiday makers, and approx 5 attacks non fatal, the local authorities linked it to dead sheep being dumped from a live export ship on route from australia to the middle east.

Yup, I worked out there for years as a diver, was a dive master for a shark migration documentary triggered by local divers spotting zambezi bull sharks in Sharm area. Red Sea wasn't supposed to have zambezi bull sharks... Turned out they followed the sheep boats in from the Gulf of Aden. They don't follow the ships in through the busy and noisy Sues canal so end roaming around Ras Mohammed ans the Straights of Tiran. And yeah we did ocassionally see sheep carcasses floating. Can't remember the name of the shark migration expert (70+ year old Brazilian dude) but he had a theory that the sharks identify the sound or prop vibe of the ships.

www.gyropatrol.com.au is a new project that can give Aerial Surveillance over Perth beaches and surf spots. It's a non profit project and in the future could deploy flotation devices for swimmers in trouble and Shark electric shock high amp drop buoy's that pulse huge amps into the sea to drive them away, food for thought!

Ercorn said...

cauncy said...

spot on dutch, anyone who studies shark behavior will tell you how clever sharks are, ive spent a bit of time on dirk hartog island on and off, and seen some specky ways in which they hunt in packs and choose locations as a food source, the arnt many species that have lived on this planet since day one sharks and crocs have, so they have to be doing something wright

Right :)

done on my phone with auto spell sorry miss ercom

In relation to the sharks "recognizing" the ships. I would imagine the constant hosing out of the pens aboard the ship would leave nice trail of pretty recognizable stench in the water. Pretty sure they wouldn't bottle that sh$t aboard.
Similar to how seagulls tail fishing trawlers, pretty sure a big shark is a tad more intelligent than your average seagull.

So what you're saying is we need to stop eating lamb so the sharks can't smell it on our breath?

Drop a gybe and fart and the shark is on to you!