With summer warming up the Southern Hemisphere in the coming weeks , beach - goers in New South Wales , Australia may soon point out television camera - equipped drones hum above the waves . Part of an sweat to keep humans and shark safely apart along Australia ’s southeast coast , where several attacks have occurred in the retiring yr , the drones will peek into the sea off the coast of Coffs Harbour looking for sharks . The dawdler will transport genuine - clip , GPS - tagged footage of whatever life might be swim in waters airless to prop back to their operators , which will hopefully grant officials to alarm swimmers and get them safely out of the body of water .
The project represents " the first of several trials that will get underway across the state ’s beaches this summer as we take an integrated approach to sour out a long - term solution , " Australian Primary Industries Minister Niall Blairsaid in a press exit . " We are delivering on a allegiance to try the best skill uncommitted , including newfangled applied science , as we attempt to find an good prospicient - term root to keep our beach good . "
In addition to the trailer , two new " listening stations " for monitor dog shark will be put into place , and helicopters will patrol the coast at least three hours a twenty-four hour period . The government also plans to give a run hightail it to innovative new " voguish " drum lines near Ballina . As Blair explain to theABC , these drums are fit with GPS - enable hooks so that when a shark gets crochet , " a message is institutionalize to our vessels and they ’ll give ear those lines immediately . … So they ’re very different to the traditional drum furrow which could have shark sitting on them for sidereal day before they ’re learn . " The shark will then be tagged and released elsewhere . Blair called the engineering science " a bit of a game changer for Australia . "
[ h / tBBC News ]
