[Exclusive] Climate Change and Increased Navigation in the Suez Canal May Be Among the Reasons for the Recent Shark Attacks
What has driven sharks in recent years to attack humans in Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, and Marsa Alam? These cities, which have long enjoyed tranquility, why have sharks become a concern for some, especially after the recent attack on a Russian tourist that resulted in his death, and the entire scene was filmed on video, prompting us all to search for the reasons that could lead to this attack, and even search for ways to solve it.
What have we done at Nogoom Masrya? We conducted a dialogue with Chat GPT Plus 4.0 and collected some research sources about the reasons for shark attacks in general. We asked Chat GPT why specifically in the Red Sea after many years without recording a single attack, and the answers amazed us as they may amaze you as well.
Proposed reasons and solution:
- Climate change: which has become apparent to everyone, what we see from changes and weather conditions, does not only directly affect us like thunderstorms and summer rains that we are not used to, but the matter is beyond that, as climate changes cause changes in water temperature, which is a key element in determining the navigation of fish, and sometimes their abnormal behaviors. The solution: Unfortunately, this global problem poses a real danger that humans are still oblivious to despite the continuous warnings, and it seems that the world is several steps behind in this regard, but we must try to get this information to the world.
- Increased navigation in the Suez Canal: One of the strange information about the tiger shark, responsible for the recent attack, is its attraction to noise, and some even interpret that the waste of ships, may have made this type of fish accustomed to unusual meals for it before. The solution: In this case, the Suez Canal is a national income source for Egypt, so the solution here is beach nets.
- Overfishing: Increased fishing operations cause a shortage of natural prey for sharks, which pushes them to search for unusual prey like humans. The solution: Organize fishing operations, which the Ministry of Environment has already started organizing recently, before the recent incident, but it is clear that it must be organized more strictly.
It is worth mentioning that tiger sharks are known to carry out scattered attacks around the world, and it is usual for them to behave non-typically randomly, as humans do not constitute prey for them, but from time to time such behavior appears randomly, and it seems in the end that the main factor is climate changes, which seem to affect not only humans.
