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Full size vending machines can weigh over 1,000 pounds (450 kg), [1] creating a risk of serious injury or death if tilted until they fall over. Warning stickers like this one began to appear on vending machines in the 1990s. Vending machines being rocked or tilted have been known to cause serious injury and death when the heavy machines fall over.
Shark nets such as those used in New South Wales are designed to entangle and kill sharks and other animals that pass near them. [15]Christopher Neff, a Ph.D. scholar at the University of Sydney notes, "Internationally, shark nets have been labeled a 'key threatening process' for killing endangered species."
Despite his statement, Mizuuchi issued 1.3 million warning stickers to be placed on vending machines across the capital. [2] Warnings were posted on many of Japan's 5.2 million vending machines by both vending machine operators and drink companies. Customers were advised to throw away any free drinks they got from the machines.
These sharks, being large and powerful predators, may sometimes attack and kill people, even though all have been filmed in open water by unprotected divers. [55] [56] The 2010 French film Oceans shows footage of humans swimming next to sharks in the ocean. It is possible that the sharks can sense the presence of unnatural elements on or about ...
The majority of shark nets used are gillnets, which is a wall of netting that hangs in the water and captures the targeted sharks by entanglement. [6] The nets may be as much as 186 metres (610 ft) long, set at a depth of 6 metres (20 ft), have a mesh size of 500 millimetres (20 in) and are designed to catch sharks longer than 2 metres (6.6 ft) in length.
The tiger shark is considered to be one of the most dangerous sharks to humans. [1] Although it is found in the Red Sea it is not usually seen near reefs during the daytime. The Grey reef shark is territorial and may be aggressive, and has been involved in non-fatal attacks on divers.
Powerheads are often used for spear fishing and against sharks or alligators for sport, defense, or to kill nuisance animals. The term powerhead refers to the firearm-like part of the device; when attached to a shaft to form a spear , it may be referred to as a bang stick or shark stick .
The majority of sharks that were killed in the cull were tiger sharks, [1] despite white sharks being the main target. The Western Australian shark cull is the common term [ note 1 ] for a former state government policy of capturing and killing large sharks ( shark culling ) in the vicinity of swimming beaches by use of baited drum lines .