How Do You Avoid a Shark Attack? The Answer Could Be… LED Lights?!
Over the past few years, researchers Dr. Laura Ryan and Professor Nathan Hart from Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia, have been working on devising strategies to deceive sharks. This research has taken place in Mossel Bay, South Africa, an area famed for its large seal populations which attract white sharks seeking prey. Notably, white sharks are also infamous for attacking humans, accounting for the majority of all shark attacks. The aim of this study was to understand why these incidents occur and find a means to exploit this knowledge against them. Their findings were recently published in the journal Current Biology.