Thursday, 8 October 2015

Using Sonar to protect us from the Sharks?

In recent months there has been a significant amount of shark attacks on our beaches, and as a response New South Wales premier Mike Baird has promised to try and make our beaches safer by employing a new kind of "shark net". A buoy that acts as a shark detection device. 

The "Clever Buoy sonar detection system" as it's known, has already shown us how it works, as it's had a number of test runs in Western Australia. The buoy, a bright yellow colour, detects a shark and sends the lifeguards who are patrolling the beach a text message via satellite!

I believe that these buoys will be a great alternative to the Shark nets that are employed at the moment. The Shark nets that protect our beaches now are dangerous traps for a number of marine life, not just sharks that get tangled up in the net's and die. In 2013 a baby Whale was killed off Sydney's Northern Beaches when it became entangled in the net and drowned. 


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The new sonar detection system will allow for more accurate detections of Sharks, without the harm of the net!

1 comment:

  1. I own a device to protect people in a shark at a cost cheaper and easy to deal with and I have the graphics and I like making a model of experience

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