If you still get the creeps going in the sea after watching Jaws, then this could be for you.
Australian geniuses have developed an app that could help alert people to a potential shark attack.
The technology works off sonar and has the capability to warn when a shark gets within 300m of a certain point.
It can detect if there is an ocean killer over 2m long in the waters off a beach and sets off an alarm on the user’s device.
The $16m shark detector works using a ‘Clever Buoy’ off the Australian coast and pings a message to lifeguards when anything from a Tiger Shark to a Great White is picked up.
The technology, designed by Western Australian company Shark Mitigation Systems, can identify whether the sonar blip is a shark by the creature’s movements through the water.
It is currently being trialled off the famous Bondi Beach and is part of New South Wales’ multi-million pound attempts to stop shark attacks on swimmers and surfers.
With beasts like this 6-metre shark caught in the waters off Australia, it couldn’t come a moment too soon really.
Hopefully one day soon it will be safe to go back in the water…
