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    New Electronic Repellent against Sharks Tested in South Africa

    November 17, 2014

    Pretoria: South African experts activated a new electronic repellent against sharks in the beaches of Cape Town, as a hi-tech experiment to keep those deadly marine predators at bay.    Researchers from the naval company KwaZulu Sharks Board installed the cables of the devices to protect bathers, coinciding with the beginning of the summer in the southern hemisphere, where the world's worst shark attacks are reported every year.

    The portable device, called Shark Pod, generates an electromagnetic field that hits the sharks' nose.
     
     
    The technology was designed to protect bathers, divers and surfers without damaging the sharks physically, said Prensa Latina News Agency quoting the firm to have said in response to demands by environmentalists.
     

    If the device is successful, the company expects that it might be used all over the world, because it would become a major innovation, in contrast to the current shark-hunting nets, which have been described as environmentally unfriendly.(KH)

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