Seal-shaped boards decked with bright horizontal lights were less likely to be attacked by great white sharks, researchers ...
But there’s a new study out of Australia that shows some promise in deterring shark attacks.
Researchers found that striped LED lights on seal decoys deterred great white shark attacks by breaking up the decoy’s ...
Great White sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), apex ocean predators, are responsible for most fatal shark bites on humans ...
Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A ...
Hiding from the Great Whites, which are responsible for most human fatalities from shark bites, is complicated as the ...
Still others have marketed black-and-white striped wetsuits based on a theory similar to that behind the LED lights: ...
“It’s sort of like an invisibility cloak but with the exception that we’re splitting the object, the visual silhouette, up ...
Surfers could be protected from future shark attacks following new discoveries about how to trick sharks' visual systems made ...
Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white sharks, revealing a possible ...
Researchers believe their work could mean a "revolution" in surfboard design that is potentially beneficial here in Australia ...
In related studies, the researchers have also found that, like most sharks, great whites are probably completely colour-blind ...