A project created by a coordinator of the Rural Federal University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Valmir Macarius Son, will assist the State Committee Sharks with Incident Monitoring (CEMETERY). The initiative is a monitoring system and recognition that alerts lifeguards when the bather exceed or remain long in a hazardous area. Sunday (13), fishermen caught a shark on the beach of Piedade in Jaboatão dos Guararapes.
The project, valued at $ 32,000, was selected among six others presented and published by the Foundation Support of Science and Technology of the State (Facepe). In it, a camera system is used to recognize who is on the beach and monitor it. “It’s a software that realizes the person’s presence in the hazardous area and the accompanying it will be safe or not. In case of any exceeded limits or even drowning is issued a warning to the nearest lifeguard station, “said the president CEMETERY, Clovis Ramalho.
Ramalho also said that the monitoring institution has the scientific community as a partner to try to reduce the animal attacks. “We are seeking more practical actions. It is no use us trying to create barriers against the shark but educate the human being to know how to get along and understand the limits to be established in that contact, “he said.
The job will run as a pilot project in the next 18 months. It will run accompanied by technical reports and visits in the deployed location. The end will be presented the results. If you have been a success, will be applied across the edge of the metropolitan area of Recife.
Attacks
According to the Graveyard, the International Registry index Shark Attack He was discharged since 1992, with 60 shark attacks in RMR and Jaboatão dos Guararapes. Of these cases, 40% resulted in death. Increased interaction between the shark and the man is directly linked to the degradation of marine environments and high population density on the coast, about 900 inhabitants / km². “We will open new tenders in order to come more ideas that can help us prevent further attacks. We have to use technological developments to our advantage. “
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