{"id":32575,"date":"2012-10-03T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32575"},"modified":"2012-10-03T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:08:57","slug":"shark-repelling-wetsuit-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32575","title":{"rendered":"Shark Repelling Wetsuit Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2445772-3x2-700x467.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2445772-3x2-700x467.jpg','popup','width=700,height=467,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2445772-3x2-700x467-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2445772-3X2-700X467\" \/><\/a>A team of researchers at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\" target=\"_blank\">University of Queensland<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwa.edu.au\" target=\"_blank\">University of Western Australia<\/a><\/strong> believe that they can design a wetsuit so visually repelling that sharks won&#8217;t even come near a surfer who is wearing the suit, according to a  story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2012-10-03\/wetsuits-developed-to-deter-sharks-feature\/4294036\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sharks are highly visual animals but the world they see lacks colour and will appear as shades of grey like we see when we watch a black and white movie,&#8221; he said. . . &#8220;It may be possible to use this knowledge to change the way a shark reacts to certain objects. . . &#8220;It may also lead to better design of equipment such as wetsuits and surfboards that reduce the risk of shark attack.&#8221; . . . UWA&#8217;s Professor Shaun Collin says they plan to create a wetsuit, using particular patterns, that would make the wearer look unappealing to sharks. . . &#8220;It makes the wearer appear obnoxious, poisonous or unattractive to the shark, somewhat like a sea snake,&#8221; said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a description of half the groms at our local break. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2012-10-03\/wetsuits-developed-to-deter-sharks-feature\/4294036\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia believe that they can design a wetsuit so visually repelling that sharks won&#8217;t even come near a surfer who is wearing the suit, according to a story on ABC.net.au. &#8220;Sharks are highly visual animals but the world they see lacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32577,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575\/revisions\/32577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}