kiterboy said..
I just can't understand how anyone can say that the increase in incidents is purely down to the number of people using the water, of course there are more GWs, it is a simple conclusion to reach being that they are a protected species.
Even if some cultures still kill them, there's still a whole bunch more including us, that used to kill them, not killing them anymore.
Seems to be a self delusion to even suggest that GW numbers haven't gone up.
Even if the experts say that 'there is no evidence to show numbers have increased', well it goes both ways, and hence there is no evidence to show that they haven't increased.
Anyway...
GWs apparently have excellent vision, smell and hearing etc, so it makes me wonder why nothing has been developed to play on those senses as a deterrent.
Surely a device or wetsuit which emits an odor or other type of signal which tells the GW that 'this is really distasteful' could be made.
Nothing likes to eat something which it finds horrible tasting and learns to avoid eating it, there's plenty of examples in the marine animal world which inspiration could surely be taken from.
GWS frequent in Tassie,population 500,000 how many water sport users and attacks?.
GWS frequent in South Australia 1.5 million how many water sports users and attacks?
GWS frequent in WA 2.5 million how many water sport users and attacks?
By the way really it is not a increase in attacks they happen most years. Nothing has really changed in shark numbers. It's not like suddenly we have a plague or a Real life Jaws loose on the beaches.
How many Whites have you guys seen from the shore in the past 12 months? I have seen 100 in a 3 year period and this was in a world known hot spot. It's a bloody big ocean and to only see Approx 100 in such a period tells me there are not as many as people are claiming and most biologists would agree.
