Great White Shark drone footage

[ramonesfreak]

Some cool recent drone footage came up in my feed.

I usually watch TheMalibuArtist ( https://www.youtube.com/themalibuartist ) channel and his stuff is really great too but thought I would post this one

The GW shark appears to come in to waist deep water. I have had only 1 very close encounter with a very large shark that will forever keep my out of the ocean, back in the pre-drone world in May 2012.

Im wondering why we do not have drones patrolling our beaches. It seems reasonable that a beach could have a fleet of automated drones with perhaps 2 going out in opposite directions to patrol. If they see a shark, an alarm on shore is triggered. When the drone's battery is depleted, it returns to it's docking station for recharge while 2 more fresh drones get deployed.....over and over

Anyway, enjoy this relaxing video - no blood or guts in this one

[Seahawk]

Folks are working on it:

https://www.emilyrobot.com/

The key is endurance...we are working on tethering a system to Emily and other similar vehicles...or to the Life Guard Station.

Power and sensor data up and down the tether.

[ramonesfreak]

^ very cool. Thanks for the info - not that I will get in the ocean again on purpose :-) but this tech will save lives

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

I have had only 1 very close encounter with a very large shark that will forever keep my out of the ocean, back in the pre-drone world in May 2012.

You can't write something like that and leave us wondering what happened

Sharks are my favourite topic in the world, so into them from an early age, spent every spare minute of my childhood in the Bahamas snorkeling on my own in their back yard

Favourite book as a child was The Shark Attack Files, written by Gearge H Burgess, based on research from a panel of experts set up in 1958 by the Office of Naval Research on how, where, why shark attacks happened

Also read all the books written by Jacques Cousteau and Hans Hass, especially interested about their early underwater exploration with sharks eg Men and Sharks written by Hans Hass

Sharks are the perfect example of millions of years of evolution

[ramonesfreak]

I was tarpon fishing in key west for my 40th bday May 2012. we had a guide in a 32ft center console, maybe a little bigger. I was on the bow fighting a tarpon for about 30 minutes. we saw it and the guide said wow, thats in the 180lb range, and probably longer than I am.

I got the tarpon close to the boat and the guide was about to get on his knees to try to land it hand in mouth, as you must and then it took off again quickly. As it did that, I looked down and saw a VERY large shark pass under the boat. looked like a submarine. immediately hairs on my body stood up. The shark took this tarpon in one bite and the line went limp. Only thing it left was a few shiny tarpon scales sparkling in the sun. At first I thought it was a hammer head but looking back it was clearly a very large bull shark. There was no chasing or thrashing about, not even a splash. even the seasoned guide was a little stunned, and he is out there every day. as i looked around at the parasailors and jetskiiers and paddle boarders all around us....I thought geez no way. these people are nuts and I am never swimming in the ocean again.

The shark ate that huge tarpon like you and I would eat a McDonalds french fry

Grew up watching Cousteau on TV. Still watch on youtube. I too love sharks and all things ocean - my mom even gave birth to me in March so I would be a pisces :-)

[URY914]

"We're gonna need a bigger boat..."

[sc_rufctr]

Thanks... Great video. Port Vincent is a two hour drive from my house.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

I was tarpon fishing in key west for my 40th bday May 2012. we had a guide in a 32ft center console, maybe a little bigger. I was on the bow fighting a tarpon for about 30 minutes. we saw it and the guide said wow, thats in the 180lb range, and probably longer than I am.

I got the tarpon close to the boat and the guide was about to get on his knees to try to land it hand in mouth, as you must and then it took off again quickly. As it did that, I looked down and saw a VERY large shark pass under the boat. looked like a submarine. immediately hairs on my body stood up. The shark took this tarpon in one bite and the line went limp. Only thing it left was a few shiny tarpon scales sparkling in the sun. At first I thought it was a hammer head but looking back it was clearly a very large bull shark. There was no chasing or thrashing about, not even a splash. even the seasoned guide was a little stunned, and he is out there every day. as i looked around at the parasailors and jetskiiers and paddle boarders all around us....I thought geez no way. these people are nuts and I am never swimming in the ocean again.

The shark ate that huge tarpon like you and I would eat a McDonalds french fry

Grew up watching Cousteau on TV. Still watch on youtube. I too love sharks and all things ocean - my mom even gave birth to me in March so I would be a pisces :-)

My feelings exactly. I'm a fairly strong swimmer but I won't do it in the ocean. I'm pretty confident with my survival skills and odds on land and in the air. In the ocean...I am prey. I don't like being prey.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

I was tarpon fishing in key west for my 40th bday May 2012. we had a guide in a 32ft center console, maybe a little bigger. I was on the bow fighting a tarpon for about 30 minutes. we saw it and the guide said wow, thats in the 180lb range, and probably longer than I am.

I got the tarpon close to the boat and the guide was about to get on his knees to try to land it hand in mouth, as you must and then it took off again quickly. As it did that, I looked down and saw a VERY large shark pass under the boat. looked like a submarine. immediately hairs on my body stood up. The shark took this tarpon in one bite and the line went limp. Only thing it left was a few shiny tarpon scales sparkling in the sun. At first I thought it was a hammer head but looking back it was clearly a very large bull shark. There was no chasing or thrashing about, not even a splash. even the seasoned guide was a little stunned, and he is out there every day. as i looked around at the parasailors and jetskiiers and paddle boarders all around us....I thought geez no way. these people are nuts and I am never swimming in the ocean again.

The shark ate that huge tarpon like you and I would eat a McDonalds french fry

Grew up watching Cousteau on TV. Still watch on youtube. I too love sharks and all things ocean - my mom even gave birth to me in March so I would be a pisces :-)

I grew up swimming at the beach in the Clearwater/Largo (Near Tampa/St Pete). I heard from my mom that they used to catch sharks off of the piers at those beaches. I never saw any sharks. When at the beach, I pretty much always stayed in water that I could easily touch bottom with my head out of the water, which meant <5' deep. I just didn't see any need to get farther out than that. I may have ventured out to a sand bar with a deeper trough a few times, but only if the sand bar was fairly close to shore. I just never felt the need to "have fun" in deep water that I couldn't see clearly through.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water - because that's where the people are. I suspect there are more sharks in deeper water than shallow beach water. I'm sure if a bunch of folks were out swimming around in deeper water, shark attacks might be even more common. I'm not super likely to end up swimming around in water that's an inky blackness. I don't have any sort of phobia about going in the ocean or getting eaten. But I don't want to become a statistic either.

[ramonesfreak]

^^^^ check this out if interested, and see his other vids. he does great work

[IROC]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

Im wondering why we do not have drones patrolling our beaches. It seems reasonable that a beach could have a fleet of automated drones with perhaps 2 going out in opposite directions to patrol. If they see a shark, an alarm on shore is triggered. When the drone's battery is depleted, it returns to it's docking station for recharge while 2 more fresh drones get deployed.....over and over

This sounds like a neat idea, but my first thought is - who pays for this? And is it worth the return on investment? How many people are attacked by sharks every year? Is this really a threat we need to spend money on? Maybe only in very limited areas?

[porsche tech]

Along the same lines…
I was fishing a tidal creek in the marsh next to my buddy’s house, standing in pluff mud about up to the ankles of my boots. Caught a nice fat red fish and as soon as he was on top of the water, a gator showed up out of nowhere. I opened the bale to let the fish take off and tried to back away from the edge of the creek (which isn’t easy in pluff mud). As I crept back toward the edge, he was still there waiting (pic). Gator wound up winning…fish, hook, sinkers, the whole nine yards. Creepy. They’re not usually in salt water but it’s not unusual.

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by IROC

This sounds like a neat idea, but my first thought is - who pays for this? And is it worth the return on investment? How many people are attacked by sharks every year? Is this really a threat we need to spend money on? Maybe only in very limited areas?

And what about the liability when someone gets munched by a shark when everyone is told it's safe?

[ramonesfreak]

Not sure either. When I lived on the ocean in Long Beach, NY, even as a resident I had to pay a fee to go on the beach...no idea where that money went, maybe lifeguards? Seems to me the benefit would outweigh the costs but yea....you raise a valid point

Originally Posted by IROC

This sounds like a neat idea, but my first thought is - who pays for this? And is it worth the return on investment? How many people are attacked by sharks every year? Is this really a threat we need to spend money on? Maybe only in very limited areas?

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

And what about the liability when someone gets munched by a shark when everyone is told it's safe?

Nobody would be told its safe. As an attorney I think it would be a pretty easy argument that if you go into the ocean you assume the risk of whatever danger lurks below even though there are spotter drones out there

If a person drowns and there is a lifeguard on the beach, there is no guarantee you wont still drown, right?

But if I were a surfer, kayaker etc... I would love knowing that should a drone spot a shark, a loud siren would be heard or strobe light or something. The idea being that some warning is better than no warning and at the end of the day, there is no guarantee a drone will see anything at all depending on water conditions etc...

Also, obviously drones cant be everywhere...it would have to be for known hot spots with enough human traffic to justify

Just seems like such reasonable thing and somewhat easy thing to do given the fact that we put a man on the moon 3 years before I was born

[masraum]

Originally Posted by gacook

My feelings exactly. I'm a fairly strong swimmer but I won't do it in the ocean. I'm pretty confident with my survival skills and odds on land and in the air. In the ocean...I am prey. I don't like being prey.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my feelings. I want to be in shallow water (probably spend most of my time in 3-4' deep water), and preferably water that I can see into/through. Hell, I prefer swimming at the beach to lakes. Lakes have gators!

[ramonesfreak]

In the 70s and 80s we as a family vacationed in Florida every year, staying many times in Tampa/St Pete. I have fond memories of staying at The Don CeSar searching every payphone for quarters so I could play pac man in the game room.....we all swam in the ocean like crazy. The only thought of sharks was because of Jaws. I probably had it on my mind a little but we jumped in the ocean with our masks and fins and swam all day in water over our heads...we were all good swimmers.

I would not do this now and if I had kids, they wouldnt be allowed in the ocean past their ankles...In order to avoid a most hated dad award, I would sit them down and make them watch real shark attack videos on youtube (there are many) before we ever got on the airplane, or maybe on the airplane followed by some plane crash videos I have not been on an airplane since my shark episode above....13 years. Only reason I got on the plane then is because my brother arranged the surprise fishing trip and had all the tickets and stuff paid for. my ONLY real fears in this life are 1) plane crash and 2) eaten by a shark. Otherwise, Im your guy for danger

Originally Posted by masraum

I grew up swimming at the beach in the Clearwater/Largo (Near Tampa/St Pete). I heard from my mom that they used to catch sharks off of the piers at those beaches. I never saw any sharks. When at the beach, I pretty much always stayed in water that I could easily touch bottom with my head out of the water, which meant <5' deep. I just didn't see any need to get farther out than that. I may have ventured out to a sand bar with a deeper trough a few times, but only if the sand bar was fairly close to shore. I just never felt the need to "have fun" in deep water that I couldn't see clearly through.

Most shark attacks occur in shallow water - because that's where the people are. I suspect there are more sharks in deeper water than shallow beach water. I'm sure if a bunch of folks were out swimming around in deeper water, shark attacks might be even more common. I'm not super likely to end up swimming around in water that's an inky blackness. I don't have any sort of phobia about going in the ocean or getting eaten. But I don't want to become a statistic either.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

in the 70s and 80s we as a family vacationed in florida every year, staying many times in tampa/st pete. I have fond memories of staying at the don cesar searching every payphone for quarters so i could play pac man in the game room.....we all swam in the ocean like crazy. The only thought of sharks was because of jaws. I probably had it on my mind a little but we jumped in the ocean with our masks and fins and swam all day in water over our heads...we were all good swimmers.

I would not do this now and if i had kids, they wouldnt be allowed in the ocean past their ankles...in order to avoid a most hated dad award, i would sit them down and make them watch real shark attack videos on youtube (there are many) before we ever got on the airplane, or maybe on the airplane followed by some plane crash videos :d i have not been on an airplane since my shark episode above....13 years. Only reason i got on the plane then is because my brother arranged the surprise fishing trip and had all the tickets and stuff paid for. My only real fears in this life are 1) plane crash and 2) eaten by a shark. Otherwise, im your guy for danger

lol!

[ramonesfreak]

I also do not sleep in a tent in any forest where there are bears :-)

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by IROC

This sounds like a neat idea, but my first thought is - who pays for this? And is it worth the return on investment? How many people are attacked by sharks every year? Is this really a threat we need to spend money on? Maybe only in very limited areas?

This! I see it as way to expensive to be practical or economical. And I feel 100% safe from shark attacks here in Oklahoma. If the beach goers want to pay for it, power to them, and pony up the funds from the beach states.