By Chris Gayomali
Although still incredibly rare in the United States , shark attacks reached 10 - high levels in 2012,according to a University of Florida study . Including data point from Hawaii and Puerto Rico , 53 attacks come about in U.S. amnionic fluid , with a fatality charge per unit of just two percent .
To be clear , you ’re still more likely to die froma lightning hit .
It ’s a dissimilar chronicle in other persona of the world , peculiarly along the coast of Western Australia , where the surf is pristine and capital white shark are abundant . Although we ’re still a far swell threat to them than they are to us — practices like shark finning have reduced the creature todangerously grim degree around the globe — a series of gamy - visibility incident have paint the area as a hotbed for attack .
For surfers , international or otherwise , the temptingness of a shark - repelling wetsuit has always been something of a Holy Grail , if only for the peace of judgement . Scientists from the University of Western Australia , work with suit designers at Shark Attack Mitigation Systems ( SAMS ) , have divulge two novel " shark - proof " wetsuits designed to make you look less like a tasty shark - collation : One make you " invisible " to their optic , while the other mimics the pattern of a toxic fish the vulture are known to avoid .
Sharks actually haveamazing imagination , despite what you may have listen . Although their visual organisation are exchangeable to those of man , their eyes actually have stacked duplex retinas that tolerate them to see prey intelligibly even in dark , mirky Ethel Waters . The " invisibleness suit,“according to research worker , takes vantage of the " upper limits on spatial resolving superpower / visual keenness of the eye in pelagic sharks”—a sort of blind fleck — and effectively renders the swimmer camouflaged .
The idea behind the other shark - repelling cause has really been around for awhile . The black and livid stripes of the vicious Naucrates ductor have long been screw as a biologic deterrent . In fact , the Pisces are known to pass most of their lives alongside shark .
And even though your safety is n’t vouch with either wetsuit , it surely beats anything that make you look like a hapless seal .
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