Real-Time Shark Alerts Offered In Florida
Indian County Lifeguards Are Online
POSTED: Monday, April 8, 2002
UPDATED: 8:52 am EDT April 11,
2002
A Cocoa Beach man has developed a real-time shark alert system that can reportedly warn swimmers before an attack, according to Local 6 News.
Shark Web site operator Bill Schauman said that his new system sends the location of shark sightings to subscriber's beepers and cell phones.
Schauman uses the eyes of lifeguards and beach volunteers to improve the accuracy of the alerts.
"It's just like the weather -- it's real time," Schauman said. "It's sent by lifeguards on the beach and you can get a alert within five minutes of a dangerous shark sighting and that's the only time they're sent – for a dangerous shark sighting where a lifeguard would close a beach,"
Schauman decided to start a shark Web site after his wife, Dawn, survived a violent attack nine years ago.
"I had no idea what happened," Schauman said. "I sat up, I was facing in the opposite direction, and then there was this huge pool of blood all around me."
Schauman believes the system can save lives.
He said that Indian River, Fla., lifeguards are already online and ready to issue alerts to swimmers. Brevard County, Fla., lifeguards are expected to be online in the next few weeks.
Schauman then hopes to offer his shark alerts throughout the United States and the world, according to the report.
For more information, click sharksurvivor.com.
There have been three people bitten by sharks this year in Central Florida, including an 11-year-old tourist who was attacked in March as she waded in shallow water.
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