Keeping Sharks at Bay Using Technology is Cheaper than Exclusion Nets

Maintaining technology to keep sharks at bay is three times cheaper than it would be to deploy shark exclusion nets and global solutions are needed urgently.

This is according to shark specialist and co-inventor, Dr Sara Andreotti, COO of SharkSafe Barrier Pty, a start-up spin-off company of Stellenbosch University. She reported this week on the outcome of two years of testing in Réunion’s bay of St Paul.