This appeared to be because the lights distorted the silhouette on the ocean's surface, making it appear less appetizing. "There is this longstanding fear of white sharks and part of that fear is ...

In other words, sharks decide whether to attack or not by looking only at the silhouette of their prey. In many cases, people who enjoy surfing in the ocean are attacked by great white sharks ...

This appeared to be because the lights distorted the silhouette on the ocean's surface, making it appear less appetising. "There is this longstanding fear of white sharks and part of that fear is ...

A new light system developed by Australian scientists to mimic ocean camouflage may ... predatory behaviour in Great White sharks and that altering the silhouette may form the basis of new non ...

Great White sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), apex ocean predators ... such as the presence of a dark silhouette, during ...

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks ... the lights distorted the silhouette of their "decoys" on the ocean's surface and limited the ...

disrupting the prey-like silhouette. But for decades, the data on all such shark repellents have been “ambiguous,” said Chris Lowe, a marine biologist and director of the Shark Lab at Cal ...

This light strategy is based on the counterillumination phenomenon in the ocean ... up the silhouette of the surfboard into smaller pieces, and that’s clearly something that the shark doesn ...