{"id":22948,"date":"2016-02-29T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T07:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/new-drone-system-will-warn-aussie-swimmers-of-great-white-sharks"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:47:08","slug":"new-drone-system-will-warn-aussie-swimmers-of-great-white-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/new-drone-system-will-warn-aussie-swimmers-of-great-white-sharks","title":{"rendered":"New Drone System Will Warn Aussie Swimmers of Great White Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drone-system-will-warn-aussie-swimmers-of-great-white-sharks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>Image by <a href='http:\/\/www.travelbag.co.uk' rel='nofollow'>www.travelbag.co.uk<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s coast, being both great surf territory as well as a primo shark habitat, is getting a technological upgrade to keep the swimmer-fish twain from meeting: A shark-spotting drone nicknamed the \u201cLittle Ripper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A joint venture between Aussie philanthropist Ken Weldon and Aussie bank Westpac, the $250,000 battery-powered unmanned helicopter will be deployed in the skies above New South Wales. On Sunday, New South Wales Premier Mike Baird heralded the drone as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/shark-spotting-drone-the-future-of-rescue-in-nsw-20160228-gn5leq.html\" target=\"_blank\">future of oceanic search and rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Ripper will be able to monitor the shore for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/shark-spotting-drone-the-future-of-rescue-in-nsw-20160228-gn5leq.html\" target=\"_blank\">an hour<\/a> before its battery kaputs, according to the <em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>. It\u2019s part of a push for non-lethal, greener shark attack deterrents in Australia, where encounters are reportedly rising. They\u2019re still fairly rare \u2014 as of November, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2015\/nov\/22\/great-white-sharks-ballina-new-south-wales-surf-resort\" target=\"_blank\">14 shark attacks<\/a> off the Australian coast in 2015, reports <em>The Guardian<\/em> \u2014 but that\u2019s a spike from the typical average of five or so. A separate $16 million shark detection initiative in New South Wales also includes buoys with advanced sonar that can, according to its creators, detect sharks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-02-15\/nsw-government-trials-new-shark-detection-system-bondi-beach\/7168602\" target=\"_blank\">90 percent of the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12148-shark-detecting-drone-takes-off-above-australian-seashore?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/12148-shark-detecting-drone-...gn=organic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by www.travelbag.co.uk Australia\u2019s coast, being both great surf territory as well as a primo shark habitat, is getting a technological upgrade to keep the swimmer-fish twain from meeting: A shark-spotting drone nicknamed the \u201cLittle Ripper.\u201d A joint venture between Aussie philanthropist Ken Weldon and Aussie bank Westpac, the $250,000 battery-powered unmanned helicopter will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62605,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions\/62605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}