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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Penry Buckley

NSW beaches to get dawn-to-dusk drone patrols in $34m anti-shark program

UAV drone held by pilot operating at Coogee beach in Sydney
Surf Life Saving NSW will run daily drone flights across 70 beaches in NSW as part of a plan to put ‘more eyes in the sky’ to minimise shark interactions. Photograph: Anna Kucera/AAP

Shark-spotting drones will fly from dawn to dusk throughout the year at 70 beaches in New South Wales under an expanded monitoring program, the state government says.

The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said the $34m initiative would restore confidence to beachgoers after a series of shark sightings and attacks. They include one by a great white shark on Sydney mother Leah Stewart, who is no longer in a critical condition following the attack at Coogee beach earlier this month.

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