Marine Biologists from Australia have rigged 75 great white sharks with radio transmitters in order to study their migration patterns and warn nearby swimmers via SMS text message. Fewer than 3,500 of these deadly beasts exist today, and their goal is to preserve them in case Hollywood decides to remake Jaws or America decides that the electric chair is far too gentle a form of capital punishment.
Anyway, here’s where the mobile technology bit of news, you know the part you come to IntoMobile to everyday for, takes place. Those radio transmitters talk to 20 buoys linked to satellites. If one of these sharks swims past a buoy that’s 1/4 of a mile off shore, the life guard who is responsible for watching a particular strip of beach gets a text message alerting him to get everyone out the water.
Will it work? Well … if I was a life guard, with a gorgeous set of abs and a tan that would make women of all ages do a double take, then my phone would probably be ringing off the hook asking me to “rescue” said damsels in distress from my “great white”.
You try coming up with a better pun.
[Via: Popular Science]