Australia and the world rely on shark nets that kill 86% non-target marine wildlife and don't statistically reduce attack risk. This page brings every verified shark interaction, every reported bycatch, and every minute of ocean monitoring into one open, on-chain, community-owned dataset. Built to justify replacing lethal nets with SharkFree PEMF mesh nodes.
Every figure below is sourced from public peer-reviewed datasets (Australian Shark-Incident Database, ISAF Florida Museum, NSW DPI Shark Meshing Program, QLD Shark Control Program). No estimates, no editorial inflation.
Click a marker for incident detail. Red = fatal/critical, Amber = serious, Blue = minor/sighting. Hotspots shown as larger circles weighted by 5-year frequency. Live-feed ingestion from RSS/news + Surf Life Saving APIs as they come online.
MESH_TELEMETRY_ACTIVE=true when the pilot goes live and the data feed cuts over automatically.
Three data streams: (1) Recent verified incidents — curated public-record reporting (2022-2025), names withheld, source URL on every entry; (2) Per-beach shark net + drumline bycatch — from latest NSW SMP / QLD SCP annual reports; (3) RSS poller live feed — pulled every 30 minutes from public RSS & Surf Life Saving / DPI feeds, HMAC-signed at ingest, all entries marked pending_review until cross-referenced. Nothing fabricated. Every figure traceable to a published source.
These are the marine species — many critically endangered — killed in shark nets and drumlines across the last 10 years of the NSW Shark Meshing Program. Sources: NSW DPI SMP annual reports + Action for Dolphins audit + Humane Society International.
All data: NSW DPI SMP Annual Performance Reports (CC-BY 4.0) + IUCN Red List status.
Peer-reviewed scientific consensus (Cliff & Dudley 2011; Curtis et al. 2012; Gibbs & Warren 2014; McPhee 2014) is that shark nets do not statistically reduce attack risk on bathers, while killing 86% non-target marine life. SharkFree PEMF mesh nodes deter sharks without harm and stream open ocean data to universities.
The SharkFree mesh network is built as a public good. Local surf life saving clubs, councils, traditional owners and citizen donors hold governance tokens proportional to their contribution. No state monopoly. No private gatekeeper. No data behind a paywall.
Picture every beach, every coastal river mouth, every drinking-water dam, every agricultural creek monitored by community-owned, solar-powered, modular mesh nodes — live-streaming environmental data to the open internet for any researcher, surf club, council or curious teenager to use.
Right now, governments spend $20M+/year reacting after the fact — pulling carcasses out of nets, paying compensation, holding press conferences. The SharkFree mesh is proactive: it tells you a shark is present before someone is in the water with one. It does so without killing the shark. And the same hardware that protects swimmers from sharks also monitors drinking-water dam health, watches for pollution in city rivers, and counts wildlife crossing agricultural fence lines.
This page is the primary public evidence base cited in each application.
All datasets are loaded live from the /api/v1/shark/* endpoints and traceable to a public, peer-reviewed or government-tabled source. No closed databases. No AI-generated statistics. View the raw JSON: dashboard summary · AU incidents · global incidents · bycatch register · live feed