just reading about guy having closeup with big shark off Esperance and this is something Ive been thinking about for a long time, mind you never done any research on it.

Why do the majority of surfers, divers etc wear black suits?
dont they look more like seals etc?
Do sharks have colour sensitivity?
Would bright coloured wet suits be a deterant to sharks?
Or is it all based on the splashing of feet and arms of freaked out humans?

Many many years ago in Adelaide I went swimming on my own around midnight off Glenelg, I knew I had consumed too much booze and was in trouble swimming out to far. Now was it a dolphin that pushed me or was it something else that brushed by me..... either way it put me off swimming out deep ever since. Living in Pt Lincoln and being in my 60's I tried going shark cage diving a year ago to try overcoming the fear but messed my bathers.

220+ views and one comment from a forum based loosely on surfers, wind surfers divers and not one useful bit of information...Happy Christmas

Only a dickhead would go out and swim knowing they had consumed too much alcohol.

So do not be a dickhead and swim while you are pissed.

Hope that helps

NotWal said...
www.wired.com/2013/08/wetsuits-that-use-science-to-deter-shark-attacks/

The guy on the left died last week
He was putting his suit on and 3 lioness ran out of the scrub ,mistook him as a zebra
Carnt f.....g win

Red wetsuits were the thing during the 1980's, and I can't remember too many shark attacks from that era. But then again there were fewer whales cruising up and down the coast, and sharks were caught and killed. Oh wait, what have I said.....

Mulies, Herring, Tuna, Sailfish and Mackerel all have black and white stripes, and nothing ever eats them...

not around the gonads thankyou very mush....been there done that...never repeat process

a collingwood or geelong supporter wearing cement shooz in strategic locations could do the trick

but like myusernam said, once you've seen a gws chomp at anchors, outboard props and channel markers etc, you realise a hungry gws is a hungry gws

Or just take a selfie~