The South Australian government will pour half a million dollars into programs aimed at reducing the likelihood of shark attacks and improve first aid responses on remote beaches, after a horror year of fatal attacks in 2023.
The state government announced the funding in partnership with Surf Life Saving SA.
It will also consider which beaches should have trauma kits containing first aid supplies like bandages and tourniquets installed to respond to shark attacks."For some of those regional communities and councils, it is hard to get medical help quickly, so anything we can do in terms of intervention to get those medical treatments quickly could just save a life," he said.
"The ranges and measures ... are about acknowledging that those sharks are in the water ... for us and Surf Living Saving, it's about 'how do we share that space safely?'" Mr Marangon said. Flinders University's Professor Charlie Huveneers is the director of the Marine and Coastal Research Consortium and research leader of the Southern Shark Ecology Group.He said while recent global trends show an increase in shark bites, over the past 10 years in South Australia, there had been more years with no shark attacks.
Australian researchers working in South Africa wanted to test the theory that sharks mistake surfers' silhouettes with that of a seal. "We're going to work with those regional communities, we're going to find localised solutions to do what we can," Mr Marangon said.
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