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A Drone Operator Warns a Surfer About a Shark

James // Dave & Chuck the Freak September 19th, 2019

An amateur drone operator in Australia spotted a large shark circling a surfer, so he shouted out an evacuation warning through the drone’s speaker.  The surfer heard it and headed towards shore, while the shark went the other way out to sea.

Shark, shark, shark! Drone used to warn surfer

An amateur drone pilot captured the moment a shark approached a surfer at Werri beach in Australia on Sunday. Christopher Joye used a search and rescue drone equipped with infra-red thermal imaging camera and a warning speaker system. "I was patrolling on Sunday and saw this large shark circling a surfer.

 

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