“No 100% guarantee is provided and users assume all inherent risks of being in the water.”
Until, say, ten years ago when the Great White really started getting into the killing surfer/swimmer/diver biz, selling shark repellants was the easiest thing in the world.
“They don’t work!”
“How do you know? Has anyone been eaten wearing one?”
Uh.
Do you remember the Simpson’s ep, Much Apu About Nothing? A bear wanders into Springfield and the joint panics. Mayor Quimby sets up a Bear Patrol, which has been paid for with a tax rise. The next day no bears are around and Homer declares the Bear Patrol is working. Lisa points out that his logic is nonsense. She picks up a rock and says, by the same reasoning, it keeps tigers away: there are no tigers around, so the rock must work. Homer misses the point completely, is impressed, and buys the rock off her.
Magnetic shark repellant bracelets relied on this version of post hoc ergo propter hoc: assuming that because B follows A, or because a bad thing isn’t happening, A must be the cause.
To wit, I wore a shark repellant, didn’t get eaten alive therefore…ergo… the damn thing works.
Well, the roosters, those cocks, have come home to roost it seems with two female swimmers killed by Great White sharks in eerily similar circumstances and with both women wearing magnetic shark bands on their ankles.
Ten months ago, the body of swimmer Erica Fox Erica Fox was identified by the Sharkbanz bracelet on her ankle.
Authorities said Fox was killed by a Great White shark, following witness accounts of a large shark breaching the water near the swimmers around noon on December 21, with one observer reporting what appeared to be a human body in its mouth.
Same sorta thing just happened in South Africa. Janine Lochrenberg, 65, died after a shark attacked her during a morning swim off KuGompo City (formerly East London) on South Africa’s east coast.
Fellow swimmer Mike Loewe told News24, “We were wearing magnetic shark repellents on our feet. She had one on.”
Her sister Margot told the BBC that she ultimately bled out in the water before being brought ashore.
East London Museum principal scientist Kevin Cole, working with shark researchers Dr Geremy Cliff and Dr Matt Dicken, assessed her injuries and concluded a Great White was the likely attacker. Dicken estimated the shark was over 12-feet.
The device, which emits a magnetic field intended to disrupt sharks’ electroreceptive senses and create an aversive stimulus, had been adopted by many in the Kelp Krawlers group following a non-fatal great Great White shark incident involving another member in 2022.
Sharkbanz bracelets are championed by shark attack survivor and trad wife Bethany Hamilton and are powered by patented magnetic technology that emits a low-frequency electromagnetic field that disrupts sharks’ electroreceptors although as the fine print says, “No 100% guarantee is provided and users assume all inherent risks of being in the water.”
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We need Israeli deterrents not shark deterrents. They’ve killed thousands more people than sharks.
I wore a sharkbanz today in Collins St. Melbourne. It seemed to work. Hedge fund operators crossed the street to get away from me.
When will a ladys get guy repel bracelet?
Just get fat and dye hair purple. Every guy repelled unless beta male SJW
Why can’t swimeers and surfers just adopt the attitude of the IDF? If some young child is slaughtered you say it didn’t happen.If questioned further you claim anti semitism. And then you move on.