Cholula.
Cape Cod surf shops cannot keep shark deterrents in stock after a massive spike in shark attacks over the past two Summers of Blood. Or maybe it was two summers ago and last summer was ok because Covid-19 restrictions kept everyone out of the water.
In any case, shark deterrents are a hotter game than ever because if there’s one thing VALs love, it is summer surfing.
Olaf Valli, owner of Wellfleet’s Sickday surf shop, told The Boston Herald, “People want to get back in the water. And people living on the Cape and visiting the Cape have decided that spending $500 on a system to decrease the risk of an interaction with a shark is well worth it.”
Local Orleans resident, and SUP pilot, Marc Angelillo added, “Much more people have been wearing these over the last few years. It’s been growing exponentially. Whether it’s 40% or 60% or 80% effective at reducing the chances of being bitten, it’s better than no percent.”
The spike in sales rides a recent study from Australia’s Flinders University that electronic deterrents could save 1,063 people from getting bitten by sharks across that by 2066 and could avert more than 3,000 “incidents” across Australia over the next four-plus decades.
That seems extremely arbitrary but the lead author of the study, Professor Corey Bradshaw, doubled down saying, “We found that thousands of people would potentially not get bitten, and several hundred people would not die. None of these devices will prevent a shark from biting you, but it reduces the probability. It’s like dumping hot sauce on the prey, so it makes the shark think twice about biting it.”
Do sharks not like hot sauce?
I think that is a leap Professor Bradshaw should not be comfortable in making.
I like hot sauce and imagine hot sauce would compliment the soft, quivering VAL flesh very nicely.
Yum.
The only real question is which sort of hot sauce? Some peppery Cajun fire? A flavorful Mexican dash? Vietnamese bang bang boogie?
Discuss below.
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You’re being straight up racist Charles, because you didn’t mention the potential of using wasabi.
I want the inventors and investors to tie one onto their schlong and dip it in a shark tank.
Kinky
‘The Bomb’ brand hot sauce, as seen on the popular YouTube show ‘Hot Ones’, might possibly put sharks off taking a second bite…
If they bring out a device that is proven and super small and doesn’t hinder my surfing I’ll get one, I don’t think there’s any shame in that. In the meantime, I just don’t think about it/ try and do the right thing and not surf river mouths, whilst its raining at dawn and dusk.
Fahkin shaaks only snap at tha queeahs
North of PT conception best place in the world, IMHO. Still rural as hell.
Sleveless fleece vest mandatory. Hearst Castle , Johnson Pea Soup Factory, dress up as a clam in Pismo Beach, so many docent opportunities.
If only the CDC would mandate white sharks wear Covid masks. Cut their greatness off at the knees. “That’s right sharks, taking the bite out of your mouthy protestations!”
Via toothless executive action. Throwing avocado toast to their base.
History will not look back upon avocado toast as a favorable development for the good of mankind.
Gotta give urchin sepsis a pass. Surfs in the red triangle and already got attacked once. He posted a funny comment about how the thing shocks him before he gets in the water.
The shark has to know it’s going to burn on the way out, so hotter the better.
Hmmmm. You must be confused, I don’t think the French fought in WW2
For sale: 30 000 French ww2 rifles, never been fired, only dropped once.
..and 500 Italian tanks, only one gear to go forward but 4 gears in reverse.
New TV show, SUP patrol.
Do none of these people realize these shark deterrent devices are bullshit? I thought the testing came back saying they had no noticeable effect on attacks.
I would be pretty easy to hook one to a dummy on a board and drag it behind a boat at Tomales point in Marin. Doubt they want to know the results.
Cue the body condoms, full of the stuff.
Chile de arbol down in Mexico is the tits (da orange one).
On the subject of Sharks ….
Funky Cold Medina was observed today surfing a very sharky spot in Southern Sydney not far from Shark Park while whistling Do, do that voodoo that you do so well …
Take it away Ella ( not the Bros ) Fitzgerald .
https://youtu.be/mCvHwgTbZOU
Shark Island?
Close c4 about 3 km as the crow flies at the other end of the bay at Voodoo ….All star cast yesterday with Medina , Moniz , Colapinto Bros , Medina’s Cronulla coach Andy King , Luke Egan and ELOUERA’s rising RedBull teenage star Jarvis Earle …and local legends to numerous to be named .
Sounds mental. I’ve been talking a lot of shit about todays pro tour but all they need to do is put them in good waves. Talent at the top is off that charts.
https://www.instagram.com/p… .
There’s about a dozen shots of action from Medina and local rippers ( former Oz Champs QS event winners and underground legends ) from yesterday ….It is a super heavy wave , Shallow like Pipe and Heavy Water like Sunset with an incredible technical takeoff required … , two wave hold downs have been common as are Sharks and whales , and until recently was super polluted and hard to get too even though it is only a few km from the end of the runway at Sydney airport .
Tried to make sense of the forecast coming up, seems like you just have to wake up and go check the waves. Don’t have those lows aiming at the cost that you can see days out like here and in WA.
Caio at Norf Narra the other day
https://youtu.be/HisI9j9NCsw
This is the sort of shit the WSL should show before and during the event on laydays or standbys to fill in the downtime , and to show the form of competitors without a jersey ….. and not Koa’s Teeth opening boxes etc etc
It being Caio, I would thought the Kooks for Caio campaign team woulda done at least a little promo of their surfistinho.
Are you saying that another ten minute video of someone struggling to take a new toy out of a recently delivered freight box isn’t what we need?
Correct Pie ….hope you have been getting a few waves up your way .
And this is the good old East Coast
The home of the bean and Cape Cod
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
And the Cabots now need a big rod …..?
Or they , while humming The Smiths , Vicar in a Tutu , could all wear some saucy fish net stockings to attract the predators of the deep and shallow and Hollywood ?
Some shark’s mothers are bigger than other shark’s mothers (?)
Bigmouth Strikes Again !
The boy with the bite in his side
There is a bite and it never goes out ….
Some sharks are bigger than others
Oops was already quoted
Meat is Murder ….
Sheila take a bite
The Queen is Dead ….
This comment thread made me go on an hour long Youtube Smiths binge. Haven’t heard them in a while. Thanks everyone..
These songs somehow save me from suicide in 1990
This professor’s logic seems backwards to me, if something tastes so so I dump hot sauce on it so it tastes better. Wake up sheeple, Professor Bradshaw is trying to get you eaten.
Yes , one can assume he wasn’t raised on the subcontinent , South East Asia or in the Caribbean etc etc ? SOME LIKE IT HOT !
Or is it that the chilli flavour covers up the slightly off taste of non-refrigerated meat? Maybe there is a better white meat?
Chilli Dog perhaps ?
When living in Sanur, there was a guy who used to set up a turtle meat satay on the road out front of our place whenever he caught one.
I see a franchise of Teenage Mutant Ninja Fried Turtle …..
i hear that an AI rising sun spray done with seal blood is -370% effective in preventing attacks
Only if you are already dead …
Ouch
Find something to cling to and cling to it. I’m a black and white stripes on the bottom of my board guy.