Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/14/australian-drones-monitor-beaches-and-not-just-for-sharks.html
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Sharks don’t lke to eat people. Occasionally, one takes a bite to check, but rarely more than that.
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evil, jerky sharks
Sharks don’t have the capacity to be evil. That’s more of a human specialty.
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oi! go easy, mate!
shak was ‘ere first jus’ mindin’ 'er own til them evil, jerky surfers interrupted a nice swim about!
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And here’s our periodic reminder that humans kill millions of times more sharks than the other way around:
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Australian beaches also have saltwater crocodiles and deadly jellyfish, but I suspect they’re right to treat Covid-19 as the biggest threat this year.
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Yep. Humans aren’t terribly tasty to them, so most bites are “exploratory”. Some research has suggested they also are wary of our pointy digits which could take their eye out. When sharks do hunt humans, they do so more carefully than seals.
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Now, if a shark enters your living room uninvited, that’s an evil shark.
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knock knock knock
“Candygram”
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This is from the Northern Beaches of Sydney, which currently has neither crocs nor deadly jellyfish (except in the case of allergic reaction).
Sharks, yes. But the lifeguards are far more busy with currents or people who’ve over-estimated their swimming ability.
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They’re going to need a bigger drone.
Yeah, the media love to hype these things up.
A drone called a pro surfer in a few weeks ago on the Aussie East Coast. The surfer said the experts he consulted about the encounter identified it as a 2.5 metre Bull Shark.
The Guardian labelled it a “narrow escape” and The Independent called the shark a “Great White”.
The headline of this clip refers to the surfer being “warned of an impending attack by drone” even though the drone didn’t call the surfer in and the lifeguards close the beach until well after the encounter.
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So can they direct the sharks to the hordes of people?
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Monitoring topless women?
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