A comparison of alternative systems to catch and kill for mitigating unprovoked shark bite on bathers or surfers at ocean beaches

DP McPhee, C Blount, MPL Smith… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Responses to unprovoked shark bite involve public policies and management approaches
that contend with the needs of public safety and the responsibility to protect threatened …

Global shark attack hotspots: Identifying underlying factors behind increased unprovoked shark bite incidence

BK Chapman, D McPhee - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Unprovoked shark bite remains a rare, unlikely occurrence; however, shark bite incidence is
increasing world-wide. In an effort to understand why shark bite incidence is increasing, we …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of overlap** habitat use of juvenile white shark and human recreational water users along southern California beaches

PT Rex, JH May III, EK Pierce, CG Lowe - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Juvenile white sharks (JWS) of the Northeastern Pacific population are present in nearshore
southern California waters and form mixed size class (~ 1.5–3 m) aggregations for weeks to …

Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting the increasing occurrence of shark-human interactions around a fast-develo** Indian Ocean island

E Lagabrielle, A Allibert, JJ Kiszka, N Loiseau… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the environmental drivers of interactions between predators and humans is
critical for public safety and management purposes. In the marine environment, this issue is …

Environmental predictive models for shark attacks in Australian waters

LA Ryan, SK Lynch, R Harcourt, DJ Slip… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Shark attacks are rare but traumatic events that generate social and economic costs and
often lead to calls for enhanced attack mitigation strategies that are detrimental to sharks …

Antibiotic susceptibilities of bacteria isolated within the oral flora of Florida blacktip sharks: guidance for empiric antibiotic therapy

NR Unger, E Ritter, R Borrego, J Goodman… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sharks possess a variety of pathogenic bacteria in their oral cavity that may potentially be
transferred into humans during a bite. The aim of the presented study focused on the …

Predicting potential future reduction in shark bites on people

CJA Bradshaw, P Meagher… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite the low chance of a person being bitten by a shark, there are serious associated
costs. Electronic deterrents are currently the only types of personal deterrent with empirical …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal clustering analysis of COVID-19 cases in Johor

FY Foo, NA Rahman, FZS Abdullah… - Infectious Disease …, 2024 - Elsevier
At the end of the year 2019, a virus named SARS-CoV-2 induced the coronavirus disease,
which is very contagious and quickly spread around the world. This new infectious disease …

Effectiveness against white sharks of the rpela personal shark deterrent device designed for surfers

C Blount, D Pygas, MPL Smith… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - researchers.mq.edu.au
Many shark bites to humans, including fatalities, have involved surfers. Various personal
shark deterrents are commercially available to surfers, including Rpela v2, which is a battery …

An estimation of shark-attack risk for the North and South Carolina coastline

R Amin, E Ritter, A Wetzel - Journal of Coastal Research, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Amin, R.; Ritter, E., and Wetzel, A., 2015. An estimation of shark-attack risk for
the North and South Carolina coastline. A spatiotemporal cluster analysis of shark-attack …