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"\"&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_98531\\\" style=\\\"width: 620px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignnone\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"size-full wp-image-98531\\\" alt=\\\"gws\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/gws.jpeg\\\" width=\\\"620\\\" height=\\\"432\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/gws.jpeg 620w, http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/gws-300x209.jpeg 300w, http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/gws-129x90.jpeg 129w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt;Generic great white shark image is courtesy of Wikipedia&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Large sharks off Western Australia are now doing their part to keep surfers and swimmers safe\\u2013by sending tweets warning of their presence.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Scientists have fitted 320 sharks, many of them great whites, with transmitters that automatically issue warnings to the &lt;a href=\\\"https:\\/\\/twitter.com\\/SLSWA\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Surf Life Saving Western Australia&amp;#8217;s Twitter feed&lt;\\/a&gt; when the tagged sharks approach within a kilometer of the coast&amp;#8217;s popular beaches.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;For example, a tweet sent early Saturday in Australia reads: &amp;#8220;Fisheries advise: tagged Bronze whaler shark detected at Garden Island (north end) receiver at 06:0700 AM on 27-Dec-2013.&amp;#8221;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=\\\" wp-image-98532 alignright\\\" alt=\\\"sharktweet.jpeg\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/sharktweet.jpeg.png\\\" width=\\\"372\\\" height=\\\"379\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/sharktweet.jpeg.png 620w, http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/sharktweet.jpeg-294x300.png 294w, http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/12\\/sharktweet.jpeg-88x90.png 88w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The twitter feed has more than 14,000 followers and the real-time warnings, it&amp;#8217;s hoped, will help people make more informed decisions when choosing to venture into the ocean.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Chris Peck, from SLSWA, told &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/news.sky.com\\/story\\/1187066\\/australia-sharks-use-twitter-to-warn-swimmers\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;Sky News&lt;\\/a&gt; that this system will reach beachgoers before alerts issued via traditional media, such as radio and newspapers.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;You might not have got some information until the following day, in which case the hazard has long gone and the information might not be relevant,&amp;#8221; Peck said. &amp;#8220;Now it&amp;#8217;s instant information and really people don&amp;#8217;t have an excuse to say we&amp;#8217;re not getting the information, it&amp;#8217;s about whether you are searching for it and finding it.&amp;#8221;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Six people have been killed by sharks off Western Australia in the past two years. The latest victim, Chris Boyd, 35, was fatally bitten while surfing in November.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The government has been under tremendous pressure to make the waters safer and the Tweeting program comes after a decision to allow professional hunters &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/outdoor\\/nature\\/post\\/australia-to-hunt-great-white-sharks-in-designated-kill-zones-to-the-dismay-of-conservationists\\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;to kill large sharks sighted in certain areas&lt;\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Premier\\u00a0Colin Barnett recently told reporters: &amp;#8220;The safety of human life, the safety of beach goers using our marine environment must come first.&amp;#8221;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The shark-culling effort, however, has been highly criticized as a program that will only lend a perception that the waters are safer after a shark or several sharks are removed.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;So far, nobody has tweeted in opposition to shark&amp;#8217;s using Twitter to announce their arrival. 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