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When is a shark net not a shark net?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 1, 2012

Well, when it’s an EXCLUSION NET, obviously. Colour me educated by the sharkspotters website: Yesterday, 29 Feb 2012, the City of Cape Town issued a press release of a proposal to trial an exclusion net in Fish Hoek Bay (http://sharkspotters.org.za/media-release-city-to-consider-a-proposed-trial-installation-of-a-shark-exclusion-net-for-fish-hoek-beach). Almost immediately shark nets (as used in KwaZulu Natal) were confused with the proposal of [...]

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More Logic From Lewis

By 6000 | 6000 | October 3, 2011

We’re not huge fans of the self-titled “Human Polar Bear”, Lewis Pugh, here at 6000 miles… as you may remember from such posts as Do Some Fracking Reading from earlier this year. Pugh’s tactics to get people onto his side rely on emotion and irrationality rather than any sort of logic – which is an unnecessarily juvenile and [...]

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We warned you

By 6000 | 6000 | September 30, 2011

Remember this - the post where we told you that the Daily Mail was horrendously inaccurate in its description of the fatal shark attack in Fishhoek back in January 2010? (If you haven’t read it yet, you really should.) Well, they’re at it again over the latest shark attack at the same beach. And yes, I [...]

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Shark Spotter flags and what they mean

By 6000 | 6000 | September 29, 2011

After yesterday’s shark attack in Fishhoek, I listened to a woman who rang into a local radio station saying that she was confused about the flag system used on the beaches of False Bay to warn of shark activity and how she had to look at the signs each time she went to the beach. “Red [...]

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Fishhoek Shark Attack 2

By 6000 | 6000 | September 28, 2011

What will the Daily Mail say this time? Today’s attack took place off Clovelly beach – one of our favourite places to play. Early reports suggest that the victim was a 44 year old male who either ignored warnings not to venture into the water (a shark had been spotted earlier in the morning) or [...]

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