Ep 10 | Michael Hoarau | Reunion Island: Bull Sharks, Bans & Lethal Measures | Crossing the Tideline

Podcast: Crossing the Tideline · Brett Burcher

Opublikowano: 2026-07-19

Between 2011 and 2019, Reunion Island experienced 30 shark attacks, 11 of them fatal. Bull sharks were responsible for 90% of them, on a small French island of 900,000 people in the Indian Ocean, in the most popular tourist and surfing areas on the west coast. For a place that small, it was unfathomable to live through. Michael Hoarau runs operations for the Shark Safety Unit on Reunion Island and has spent years deep in the data, the fieldwork and the politics of trying to reduce shark encounters in the aftermath of those years. Reunion is regularly referenced internationally as a benchmark...