Which one is the hunter?
People have been afraid of sharks since a shark first attacked a person, and this fear has led to hunting and killing sharks because of something they might do. People hunt sharks for many reasons, some may hunt them because they are afraid of them, others for their fins. Shark fin soup are considered delicacies and many people will go catch sharks, cut their fins off then toss them back into the water to die. Sharks are hunted so their body parts can be made into various products, such as leather from their skin and dinner from their meat. Some shark species have dropped in population by 90 or 80 percent because they are hunted so often, and have become endangered. In a way people are more dangerous to sharks than they are to us, and if we continue to carry on the way we do the sharks will eventually die out because they all have been eaten or made into every day products. True sharks are dangerous and are able to kill you, so we have developed many ways of keeping sharks away. Divers use bang sticks which are rods that have an explosive on the end, and it is very sensitive. Divers use this when they are in a life threatening situation and the when they use it the shark will either die or become stunned. In public swimming areas there are shark nets installed around which keep sharks from coming near the swimmer, sadly dolphins and sea turtles get tangled up in these nets and often die. Scientists have developed a chemical that is not deadly to sharks but only irritating. It is used for when a shark is coming at you with its mouth open, you then squirt the chemical into the sharks mouth and it will swim away. There is also the shark suit which is a steel mesh suit that divers wear and this helps protect them from shark bites. Also Airplane pilots have a device that is called a shark screen that you let water fill it up, then you climb inside and cling onto the sides. This float looks like a very large tube sock and it is designed so that nothing that could attract a shark escapes from the float, and this has saved the life of many pilots.
top- the Shark suit below- the bang stick