New Wetsuit Design may Save Lives by Tricking Sharks

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A team of Australian scientists and wetsuit designers have developed a pair of anti-shark wetsuits that can camouflage swimmers from the colorblind fish or trick sharks into thinking whoever is in the wetsuit is poisonous. The ant-shark suits retail for about $500, according to The Daily Mail.



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Designers at the company Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS) and researchers from the University of Western Australia collaborated on the technology behind the project, which resulted in two wetsuit concepts: one with a blue pattern which cannot be seen by colorblind sharks, and another that utilizes a starkly contrasting stripe pattern that mimics the colors of poisonous fish.

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