00:00Dunny Lee has been surfing the Granites since childhood.
00:05A spate of shark attacks in the area has him sounding a $29 alarm.
00:12People in the water are going to hear that and they're going to come in.
00:15A new weapon of warning after 28-year-old Lance Appleby was taken by a shark at the
00:19Granites earlier this month.
00:22It's the fourth fatal attack in SA waters in the last two years.
00:26Sandy Bay's idyllic coastline is popular with both tourists and locals, but Mayor Travis
00:31Barber says the mood around town has changed.
00:34Hardly anyone's going in the water.
00:36I'm getting comments from people that haven't been in the water since the day of the incident.
00:40I've got people coming up and saying they've booked holidays to Indonesia to go surfing
00:44because they won't get in the water.
00:46Coastal communities are calling for more government action.
00:49And it is really upsetting to me that it takes something like this to bring on the
00:57dedication and motivation for change.
01:00Last year, the state government announced close to half a million dollars for a range
01:03of measures to increase safety on remote beaches.
01:06The $450,000 that we've been given is crumbs.
01:11We're not really even getting a slice of the pie.
01:13The government and council come in together to discuss shark mitigation strategies.
01:17Our coastline is longer than New South Wales and Victoria combined, so no one is suggesting
01:23that we can put netting all the way along the South Australian coastline.
01:26What we need to look at is what is the evidence and what is going to be most effective.
01:29Life-saving measures on the horizon, which communities hope will make big waves.
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