{"id":193826,"date":"2010-01-18T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/2010\/01\/18\/3-news-stories-keeping-some-south-africans-out-of-the-water\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:30:12","slug":"3-news-stories-keeping-some-south-africans-out-of-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/193826","title":{"rendered":"3 News Stories Keeping Some South Africans Out of The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/files\/2010\/01\/greatwhite.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5347\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/ecoworldly\/files\/2010\/01\/greatwhite.jpeg\" alt=\"Shark\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a>Three stories in the press over the last few weeks, have given South African\u2019s unusual concerns about swimming off Cape Town\u2019s beaches, surfing around the estuaries of Eastern Cape Rivers and canoeing in\u00a0the Umgeni River.<\/h3>\n<h4>Sharks Around Cape Town Beaches<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/files\/2010\/01\/nahoonbeachfinal.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a title=\"Newspaper Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#38;click_id=13&#38;art_id=vn20100118044201745C791928\" >Zimbabwean man holidaying in Cape Town was killed<\/a>, when he was attacked by what is believed to be a great white shark at Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Ninety three shark attacks, 12 fatal, were reported in the Eastern and Western Cape beaches in the last 18 years compared to only 19, with one death, on KwaZulu-Natal&#8217;s beaches. The shark nets installed there have reduced attacks by 99%, since the 1960s, when attacks were a frequent occurrence. But nets are not suitable for Cape beaches because of rough seas, the presence of whales and seals and the type of sharks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/2010\/01\/18\/3-news-stories-keeping-some-south-africans-out-of-the-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?a=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?a=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?i=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?a=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?i=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?a=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?i=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?a=w9C7CLb8F7c:IbUCifUfKg8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ecoworldly\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ecoworldly\/com\/~4\/w9C7CLb8F7c\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ndk1KvwrDxSfdlTffk6_WD6QuC0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ndk1KvwrDxSfdlTffk6_WD6QuC0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ndk1KvwrDxSfdlTffk6_WD6QuC0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ndk1KvwrDxSfdlTffk6_WD6QuC0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/RenewableEnergyNewsSyndicator\/~4\/Z2ZyND0CPmY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three stories in the press over the last few weeks, have given South African\u2019s unusual concerns about swimming off Cape Town\u2019s beaches, surfing around the estuaries of Eastern Cape Rivers and canoeing in\u00a0the Umgeni River. Sharks Around Cape Town Beaches A\u00a0Zimbabwean man holidaying in Cape Town was killed, when he was attacked by what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}