{"id":42768,"date":"2013-07-18T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=42768"},"modified":"2013-07-18T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:23:02","slug":"hide-from-sharks-with-an-invisibility-wetsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=42768","title":{"rendered":"Hide From Sharks With An Invisibility Wetsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86FdOtw9W4U\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wetsuit developers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharkmitigation.com\/\"><strong>SAMS (Shark Attack Mitigation Systems)<\/strong><\/a> have created some wetsuits that mess with sharks heads, but not in a bad way, according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2368295\/Diverter-suit-The-invisibility-wetsuit-protects-swimmers-surfers-deadly-shark-attacks.html\"><em><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Apparently, sharks use their sense of smell to find prey, however, they use their eyes just before they chomp down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>The Diverter wetsuit has navy and white stripes that are seen on some poisonous animals and fish to make the shark think they diver is dangerous. . .\u00a0<\/span>The designers have also created matching surfboard stickers. . .\u00a0According to SAMS, years of anecdotal evidence suggests that a stripe pattern acts as a deterrent or repellent to sharks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not looking like something that sharks want to eat is always a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2368295\/Diverter-suit-The-invisibility-wetsuit-protects-swimmers-surfers-deadly-shark-attacks.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wetsuit developers SAMS (Shark Attack Mitigation Systems) have created some wetsuits that mess with sharks heads, but not in a bad way, according to a story in the Daily Mail. Apparently, sharks use their sense of smell to find prey, however, they use their eyes just before they chomp down. The Diverter wetsuit has navy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768"}],"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=42768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42771,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768\/revisions\/42771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}