Could surfboard lights prevent great white shark bites? ‘Like an invisibility cloak’
The researchers went to the shark-infested waters of Mossel Bay in South Africa to test out how lights impact great white sharks. While driving a boat, the researchers put out on the water a seal-shaped foam decoy — and saw how the sharks responded to ...
Lights under surfboards could deter shark attacks - study
Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped boards fitted with different configurations of lights behind a boat to see which attracted the most attention.
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Magic light: New LED-based tech disrupts sharks’ vision to prevent attacks on surfersHowever, their reliance on vision can also make them vulnerable to a clever trick. Researchers at Macquarie University have ...
Being attacked by a shark is pretty low on the list of things you actually need to worry about based on the statistics, but ...
"There is this longstanding fear of white sharks and part of that fear is that we don't understand ... The study, published ...
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Inside the shadowy world of loan sharks and South Africa's vulnerableThe loan shark had all the woman's personal documents ... and other consumer protection laws such as the Consumer ...
LED lighting on the underside of surfboards could prevent great white shark attacks, according to an Australian-led study, ...
Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A ...
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