Swimming with sharks: The WA town struggling to deal with a string of fatal attacks

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Swimming with sharks: The WA town struggling to deal with a string of fatal attacks
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For the residents of this small Australian town, a series of shark attacks prompted an almost existential crisis. What does it mean to love the ocean when it's a place of so much grief?

"Our primary objective is to ensure public safety; [to] really ensure that everybody is out of the water in the area and that they're safe from any further interactions with the shark," he says.

"Culling anything needlessly is not an option," Doc says. "I agonise over these thoughts that people have of just doing a mass destruction." "Trauma builds up and I would say that this town had a build-up within a number of attacks," she says., which aims to promote the health of marine life in the Southern Ocean.

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