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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Eric Berger

Drones are detecting more sharks at US beaches, but do they make the public safer?

a man looks at an image of a shark on a screen
Drone photographer Carlos Gauna views a great white shark on his monitor as he captures video along the Santa Barbara county coast in California. Photograph: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Experts say that despite recent increased investment in drones to monitor for sharks in states like New York, the machines have limited usefulness as a public safety tool and there does not appear to be evidence that the threat to swimmers from sharks has increased.

There have, however, been more reports of sharks around local beaches.

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