{"id":11738,"date":"2026-07-22T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11738"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:24:07","slug":"in-peak-shark-season-a-south-african-beach-warning-system-is-idle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=11738","title":{"rendered":"In peak shark season, a South African beach warning system is idle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The waters shared by bathers and great whites off Plettenberg Bay, one of South Africa\u2019s most popular beach resorts, are going unmonitored during the peak shark season when the world\u2019s biggest predatory fish move inshore to hunt seals.<\/p>\n<p>A dispute with the local municipality has seen Shark Spotters, an organisation that sounds the alarm when the predators approach beaches, halt its activities since July 1.<\/p>\n<p>The service, instituted at the southern coast town in 2023 after a wealth manager and a restaurant owner died in fatal attacks a year earlier, is yet to resume because of \u201csignificant contractual and operational implications\u201d of the pact offered by Bitou municipality, Shark Spotters said.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are planning to swim, surf, paddle, or participate in any other water activities, please exercise extra caution,\u201d the organisation said in an earlier statement, together with drone footage of a shark swimming near one of the town\u2019s beaches on July 13. \u201cEntering the water is entirely at your own risk, and we encourage everyone to remain vigilant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Great white sharks can grow to about five meters (16 feet) and weigh two tons.<\/p>\n<p>Shark Spotters was first set up in 2004 to monitor Cape Town\u2019s beaches after a spate of shark bite incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #peak #shark #season #South #African #beach #warning #system #idle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waters shared by bathers and great whites off Plettenberg Bay, one of South Africa\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[323,10105,17678,3187,1120,589,322,736,856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}