So western Australia is culling all great whites over 3 meters.... Its really stupid and racist against the sharks who dont discriminate between who they bite .... or do they? there has been talk that their usual prey reflects as a shadow likea a seal whose colour os black...but then again.... how would you as a shark really know if your eyesight were bad? and your smell good? -
Second beach in the Transkei , Eastern Cape- Port St Johns has recently got the dihonourable distinction of the " worlds most dangerous beach" -
Port St Johns has the highest incidence of shark-attack deaths in the world and it might stay that way, writes Paddy Harper.
The beautiful Second Beach of the picturesque resort town of Port St Johns has become the deadliest stretch of coastline on earth when it comes to fatal shark attacks.
On Christmas Day the notorious but highly popular beach – one of the jewels of the former Transkei’s Wild Coast – claimed its seventh victim since the current spate of fatal attacks began five years ago.
Liya Sibili (22) from Ntsimbini, a rural village about 35km inland from Port St Johns, was taken by a shark in waist-deep water at Second Beach at around 4.20pm. Only his bathing trunks were recovered despite a three-day search for his body.
Solutions are going to be expensive and environmentally devastating, with authorities eventually being forced to choose between protecting human lives and the environment.
According to some biologists all you do by messing with the food chain is delay the problem and end up with a greater one later on. Theres a lot of bull sharks that are tagged in the mouth of Port St Johns- one a large female bull of around 350 kg. - I spoke to a local who seemed to think that the shark confuses ltos of " struggling seals"- small black humans" and eats them as they would a normal meal.... furthermore, the massive excretion of urine into the water may have an effect to attract the sharks...they can smell for miles...but their eyesight is not that good.... so there goes the white- black thing.... no... I personally think it has to do with throwing the entrails of animals and other organic waste into the sea that attracts sharks - as it did in the Sinai ( Sharm El Sheikh)...
I recall a guy who used to handfeed sharks in the Sinai- he only got bitten once in the 3 -5 years he was doing it... we must remember ...sharks are the surgeons of the sea...programmed to search - kill and destroy the weak and the injured...
I certainly dont think they are motivated by color either ...although of the 7 victims - none were white.... but then again.... the ratio of white swimmers to black swimmers is around 10-90 or less...so I feel this is an incorrect theory.
We just have to :
1. Be careful what we throw into the sea and how we pollute it.
2. Erect good nets and tag migration patterns
3.Be aware of how deep you are and if the tide is coming in or out.,,
4. If you are menstruating/bleeding from a cut- dont go in.
But killing all the big sharks is a real stupid policy that will upset the balance and will come to bite us on the ass in future! I think the government hasn't thought this one out properly.Instead we should bring in the Natal Sharks Board who are experts in the field so they can give their expert opinion based on the data collected.
Second beach in the Transkei , Eastern Cape- Port St Johns has recently got the dihonourable distinction of the " worlds most dangerous beach" -
Port St Johns has the highest incidence of shark-attack deaths in the world and it might stay that way, writes Paddy Harper.
The beautiful Second Beach of the picturesque resort town of Port St Johns has become the deadliest stretch of coastline on earth when it comes to fatal shark attacks.
On Christmas Day the notorious but highly popular beach – one of the jewels of the former Transkei’s Wild Coast – claimed its seventh victim since the current spate of fatal attacks began five years ago.
Liya Sibili (22) from Ntsimbini, a rural village about 35km inland from Port St Johns, was taken by a shark in waist-deep water at Second Beach at around 4.20pm. Only his bathing trunks were recovered despite a three-day search for his body.
Solutions are going to be expensive and environmentally devastating, with authorities eventually being forced to choose between protecting human lives and the environment.
According to some biologists all you do by messing with the food chain is delay the problem and end up with a greater one later on. Theres a lot of bull sharks that are tagged in the mouth of Port St Johns- one a large female bull of around 350 kg. - I spoke to a local who seemed to think that the shark confuses ltos of " struggling seals"- small black humans" and eats them as they would a normal meal.... furthermore, the massive excretion of urine into the water may have an effect to attract the sharks...they can smell for miles...but their eyesight is not that good.... so there goes the white- black thing.... no... I personally think it has to do with throwing the entrails of animals and other organic waste into the sea that attracts sharks - as it did in the Sinai ( Sharm El Sheikh)...
I recall a guy who used to handfeed sharks in the Sinai- he only got bitten once in the 3 -5 years he was doing it... we must remember ...sharks are the surgeons of the sea...programmed to search - kill and destroy the weak and the injured...
I certainly dont think they are motivated by color either ...although of the 7 victims - none were white.... but then again.... the ratio of white swimmers to black swimmers is around 10-90 or less...so I feel this is an incorrect theory.
We just have to :
1. Be careful what we throw into the sea and how we pollute it.
2. Erect good nets and tag migration patterns
3.Be aware of how deep you are and if the tide is coming in or out.,,
4. If you are menstruating/bleeding from a cut- dont go in.
But killing all the big sharks is a real stupid policy that will upset the balance and will come to bite us on the ass in future! I think the government hasn't thought this one out properly.Instead we should bring in the Natal Sharks Board who are experts in the field so they can give their expert opinion based on the data collected.
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