Science Hopes "Invisibility Wetsuits" Might Deter Sharks

[Demonjazz]

Read the article folks. The suit doesn't make you undetectable by the sharks. It creates a false warning, implying that you are not good meat to eat, like poisonous fish.

Essentially, it makes you seem about as appetizing as glass shards in a vial of bloody semen.

If its supposed to make you look poisonous does that mean it's some sort of bright yellow polka dotted with red... Cause I would totally buy that!

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Wait, isn't sight arguably a shark's least important sense for detecting prey?

Me thinks a suit that makes you smell repugnant to them would be a better idea.

 

[SSJBlastoise]

With roundabout 100 shark attacks a year of which only 10 to 20 are usually fatal this is a fucking waste of time.
And you wish I was joking. If you google some of the amazingly bizarre death statistics you see some crazy stuff like 400 ? 600 people per year being killed in the US from falling out of their beds while sleeping...

Leave the sharks alone.

You know, one way to help leave the sharks alone would be to help reduce attacks because every time there is a shark attack people often go out of their way to hunt the shark that did the attack and if it caused a fatality they often try to kill the shark.

Unless they've found a way to isolate your body's electric signal, and deaden the vibrations your body makes (such as your hammering heart beat if, I dunno, a giant fucking shark appears) then I think they've got a long way to go.

I dunno, aren't many attacks on people that didn't know there was a shark nearby? I'll admit I've pulled this out of my arse but I'd imagine that some attacks may have happened to unaware people so their heart rate wouldn't have been elevated until after the first hit.

 

[Miss G.]

With roundabout 100 shark attacks a year of which only 10 to 20 are usually fatal this is a fucking waste of time.
And you wish I was joking. If you google some of the amazingly bizarre death statistics you see some crazy stuff like 400 ? 600 people per year being killed in the US from falling out of their beds while sleeping...

Leave the sharks alone.

You know, one way to help leave the sharks alone would be to help reduce attacks because every time there is a shark attack people often go out of their way to hunt the shark that did the attack and if it caused a fatality they often try to kill the shark.

We can reduce attacks by almost 100% by staying out of their territory or just swimming in a man-made pool or something. Last time I checked, they were the ones that ABSOLUTELY NEED to be in the water to live, not people.

 

[weirdee]

also, while normal sharks may be fooled by camouflage, sharknadoes do not discriminate in their victims

 

[Something Amyss]

Can you make me one that works on Fox News viewers? I could hide from my family for life.

lol, was anything wearing them, at least? I wish them the best of luck with the project overall, but proving that a tiger shark has little interest in attacking/eating a non-occupied piece of rubber does not make a valid test.

Now I'm just picturing someone stuffing a steak in a suit. Or a cow-sized suit, because why not go a little ridiculous and go whole hog...Err...Cow?

Well, there are but a few issues.

1. Sharks have four other ways of sensing you. Not only can they feel your movement in the water, smell your blood, and hear your splashes, but they can also sense the electric impulses of your muscles.

Perhaps it will also make you smell bad, dampen your electrical impulses, and play Justin Beiber.

...I kid Justin Beiber. It will obviously be Nickelback, well known as shark kryptonite.

Even so, there are other factors other than death like PTSD to consider. Stop being so apathetic.

If that's the case, shouldn't we focus on dealing with the trauma endured from tripping over your spouse's dead body when you get up to pee? Seems statistically it happens to more people. And what about the survivors?

I'm not personally apathetic to sharkbait, but it really seems like there are better places to spend the money and do the researches. Even better animals to try and protect against.

Especially since a good chunk of those attacks appear to be provoked attacks.

 

[LordLundar]

Read the article folks. The suit doesn't make you undetectable by the sharks. It creates a false warning, implying that you are not good meat to eat, like poisonous fish.

Essentially, it makes you seem about as appetizing as glass shards in a vial of bloody semen.

It doesn't matter when the shark has terrible vision anyways. By the time they can spot you thry've already determined you're lunch.

 

[RicoADF]

Testing of these suits is ongoing, but the team claims that both suits have already been successfully tested against notoriously aggressive tiger sharks. They weren't being worn by humans during that test, but the researchers remain confident.

lol, was anything wearing them, at least? I wish them the best of luck with the project overall, but proving that a tiger shark has little interest in attacking/eating a non-occupied piece of rubber does not make a valid test.

I would say a dummy was wearing it, still until a person wears one it really means little and I doubt anyone will volunteer for that swim....

 

[RicoADF]

With roundabout 100 shark attacks a year of which only 10 to 20 are usually fatal this is a fucking waste of time.
And you wish I was joking. If you google some of the amazingly bizarre death statistics you see some crazy stuff like 400 ? 600 people per year being killed in the US from falling out of their beds while sleeping...

Leave the sharks alone.

So designing suits so that sharks won't attack people is a bad thing why? Their not hurting the sharks at all, this is about using what we know about colours etc to trick the sharks into thinking we're not food (which is true, sharks usually take a bike and then thats it, we don't taste good to them, unfortuently that one bit can be enough to cause serious injury or death). What the hell is your problem?

 

[lacktheknack]

With roundabout 100 shark attacks a year of which only 10 to 20 are usually fatal this is a fucking waste of time.
And you wish I was joking. If you google some of the amazingly bizarre death statistics you see some crazy stuff like 400 ? 600 people per year being killed in the US from falling out of their beds while sleeping...

Leave the sharks alone.

Why are you so against tapping into the excessively lucrative market that is "paranoid tourists"?

Also, nearly everyone sleeps in a bed every night, and many will fall out of one this year, while most people never even see a shark, much less get attacked by one, and way less than 10%-20% of bed-falls are fatal. Your examples are meaningless unless you can put them in percentages.

 

[Strazdas]

when scientists "hopes" you can expect bad things to happen.

Testing of these suits is ongoing, but the team claims that both suits have already been successfully tested against notoriously aggressive tiger sharks. They weren't being worn by humans during that test, but the researchers remain confident.

lol, was anything wearing them, at least? I wish them the best of luck with the project overall, but proving that a tiger shark has little interest in attacking/eating a non-occupied piece of rubber does not make a valid test.

they probabvly used raw meat in the suit, jsut like in all other shart attack tests.

that being said i would not like to be a live target for their testing.