Would you wear this? I wouldn't for the simple reason that it won't be any use when the shark attacks the bottom of your board in the first instance! Apart from the fact that you would be laughed off the beach.

au.news.yahoo.com/shark-deterrent-wa-wetsuits-a-world-first-18040555.html

Where do I get one.

They should call it the KookSuit.

There have been 5 shark related fatalities in WA since 2010. Over the same period there have been 371 fatalities on WA roads.

I wonder if I could get a $20K Government Grant to paint peoples cars to make them more visible to other motorists....

I'd be more inclined to spend my hard earned on an electrical deterrent, they're much cheaper and a lot less Elton John than the KookSuit above.

that was money well spent

[b]Woodo said...[/

As for your stats late starter, ever thought about the number of road users as opposed to the number of ocean goers???

Or even more pertinent - the number of hardcore surfers and divers (seeing as they are the most likely ocean goers to become shark breakfast) vs number of road users.

Would be interesting to actually see the comparison.

I have a black and white stripped lure that always catches me heaps of sharks,soooooooooo?????

Woodo said..

Who gives a f#ck what it looks like. If it turns out that it works good sh!t.
I guess if your going for a surf and trying to make a fashion statement then it's not for you.

As for your stats late starter, ever thought about the number of road users as opposed to the number of ocean goers???

really, road users to the number of ocean goers....?

pray tell, how do they get to the ocean einstien....

theDoctor said...

Woodo said..

Who gives a f#ck what it looks like. If it turns out that it works good sh!t.
I guess if your going for a surf and trying to make a fashion statement then it's not for you.

As for your stats late starter, ever thought about the number of road users as opposed to the number of ocean goers???

really, road users to the number of ocean goers....?

pray tell, how do they get to the ocean einstien....

Yeah that's right. Road users as opposed to ocean goers. If someone's going to make a comparison to road deaths compared with shark attacks per year think about it logically. How many hundreds of thousands of people drive daily? How many people go in the ocean daily? There's a massive difference and its just a stupid comparison ya

One of the suits just looked like a spearos suit (so the sharks can't see you apparently). There was a spearo on the south coast who had 2 close GW encounters wearing a camo spearos suit, reckon the Noah's are aware enough to know you're there no matter what you're wearing. As for the stripes, it's been done and tested before, with whites from memory (though may have been a captive white). Didn't work.
I loved Hugh Edwards comment for the news, to paraphrase it went something like "these suits were tested in the 70's and found not to work, but they did help inspire confidence in water users".

I think the only reason this could possible work is that the sharks piss themselves laughing so much they take off

Dummy's dont p!ss, bleed or have a heartbeat so a shark would be less interested
Looks like a good winter prison suit
Don't drop the soap

Hmm a dummy dressed in drag huh!
Last time i checked - sharks can smell you and hunt from electrical impulse I.d..
They are covered in vibration sensors, which means they know every food source they eat - by the movement signature it makes in the water.
Just as like nuclear submarines have prop signatures...
Ever heard the old saying stay still amd dont panic ??
Sometimes they get curious...
When your Numbers up - its up Mofos ;)
Ps. Dont be one of the 300+ a year who die in car accidents before you make it to the beach :)