Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there’s one job in Australia that pays you to race towards the predators.
And when you reach the big fish, you have to fix a tracker to its dorsal fin while bobbing in a boat on the ocean swell.
The job is key to a sophisticated protection network that lets swimmers, surfers and fishers check for the aquatic hunters in real time when they venture into the water.
Every day, workers lay 305 satellite-linked buoys at popular spots in waters up to 15m deep along the coastline of New South Wales as part of the state-run progr
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