Should we really be wasting money on Shark patrols?

Why pay for life guards?..Everyone knows there’s a chance of drowning if you go swimming.

I remember being on the Alabama shore a few years back. A shark was swimming down the shore line and I yelled at the lady in it’s path not to move. She stood there, watched it swim by and never even bothered to leave the water. I later apologized for yelling at her. She told me not to worry about it. Said, “I live here, I see em all the time. My husband and I fish for em.”

because people are stupid.

But lifeguards do save people in the water.

Not all Sharks will attack people. If great whites are suddenly appearing at the shore, it’s good to see them from the air.

The value isn’t in a complete census of all the sharks, but a sample of that number to be used, in conjunction with historical data, to determine when shark levels are high enough to result in an increase in attacks.