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The Bitcoin And Cypherpunk Spirit Is Alive And Well In Africa

Bitcoin Magazine 30 Jan 2025
... in South Africa and the African Bitcoin Conference in Kenya ... The project, initiated in 2021 and based in Mossel Bay, South Africa, has become a model for Bitcoin circular economies across Africa.
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Explore South Africa: top road trip destinations for the festive season

Independent online (SA) 03 Dec 2024
According to Statistics South Africa, the road was the most common mode of travel used by 1 503 786 (62,7%) of the 2 397 507 travellers entering the country in February 2024 ... It boasts more than 6 000 monthly Google searches in South Africa alone.
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Bright lights on surfboards may keep great white sharks at bay

New Atlas 23 Nov 2024
In multiple trials performed over a period of six years at South Africa's Mossel Bay, Ryan and colleagues towed seal-silhouette-shaped foam decoys across the surface of the water, 20 meters (66 ft) behind a boat.
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Could LED lights help prevent shark attacks?

RTE 20 Nov 2024
Mooney Goes Wild contributor Terry Flanagan shares his latest round up of nature news ... Getty Images ... The study, published in the journal Current Biology, was conducted in the waters of South Africa's Mossel Bay, a popular great white feeding ground ... .
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Scientists reveal how to avoid a shark attack - and their method is surprisingly simple

The Daily Mail 13 Nov 2024
The researchers spent nearly 500 hours towing seal-shaped foam decoys through the shark-infested waters of Mossel Bay, South Africa to test shark deterrent strategies ... of Mossel Bay, South Africa.
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Could surfboard lights prevent great white shark bites? ‘Like an invisibility cloak’

Orange County Register 13 Nov 2024
Let there be light! ... “What we’ve been trying to do is understand how sharks see their prey ... The researchers went to the shark-infested waters of Mossel Bay in South Africa to test out how lights impact great white sharks ... Macquarie University Dr.
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Light-based camouflage could deter great white shark attacks: study

China.dot.org 12 Nov 2024
SYDNEY, Nov ... In the new study, researchers from Macquarie University in Sydney fitted LED lights on seal decoys and towed them behind a boat in South Africa's Mossel Bay, a renowned hot spot for great whites ... Enditem .
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Surfboards with bright lights could deter shark attacks - researchers

Raw Story 12 Nov 2024
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, was conducted in the waters of South Africa's Mossel Bay, a popular great white feeding ground ... Ryan said her research could allow less invasive mitigation methods to be used ... .
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Magic light: New LED-based tech disrupts sharks’ vision to prevent attacks on surfers 

Interesting Engineering 12 Nov 2024
The ocean has been a place of wonder and mystery, but also a source of danger ... The new tech ... The researchers conducted field trials of their counterillumination strategy in Mossel Bay, South Africa, with a high population of Great White sharks ... .
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LED lights on underside of surfboards may deter great white shark attacks

The Observer 11 Nov 2024
Read more ... The new study, conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa, involved towing decoys behind a boat for dozens of hours. View image in fullscreen. A great white shark breaches to bite a seal decoy in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Photograph ... Share ... .
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International trio to play BMW Australian PGA Championship

PGA Tour 23 Oct 2024
Although he was born in Mossel Bay on South Africa’s Southern Cape, Potgieter moved to Perth with his family when he was a child, eventually becoming a member of Golf WA’s High Performance Program.
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Five containers lost overboard off South Africa

SAFETY4SEA 08 Oct 2024
The South African Maritime Safety Authority ... The containers- two yellow and three red- which were empty, were lost on October 2, 2024, along South Africa’s coast, between Mossel Bay and Stillbaai.
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Crew Rescued from OSV That Caught Fire Off South Africa

MarineLink 13 Sep 2024
... AM Pride on Thursday, in an ocean area approximately 48.5 nautical miles south of Mossel Bay in South Africa's Western Cape province, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) said.

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