Google Map has updated the satellite image of a little island in the South China Sea. Zoom in and, among other things, you can now see the swimming pontoons and shark prevention nets on Tung Wan and Kwun Yam beaches. (Oh, that circular thing between the two beaches is the heli-pad for the air ambulance). Awesome!
The image is awesome, that is, not the shark prevention nets. The shark nets are completely unnecessary. They were installed because along the inshore eastern waters of Hong Kong a shark (or sharks), some years ago, took to grabbing the occasional early morning Chinese takeaway.
As there would have been an outcry (putting the public at risk!) if the nets were not installed at all public beaches, the nets were therefore installed everywhere. Nevermind that at swimming bays on the western side of Hong Kong no shark had ever been seen, let alone registered as causing any fatality.
Why the occurence of sharks in the clear eastern waters but their absence in the soupy waters of the west? As far as I can tell, sharks value their health, and the health of their offspring, and would not swim in waters which were thick with the particulates gushing out of the nearby Pearl River estuary. Sigh. . .
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