Shark Camouflage for your Surfboard
By Rocky Thompson on May 17th, 2007
Maybe you just finished watching Shark Week, or maybe you know someone who’s been struck by lightening, so you know what it’s like to overcome long odds. Either way, the slim chances of being eaten by a shark are enough to worry you. Shark Camo sells decals for the bottom of your surfboard that mimic the stripes of a poisonous sea snake. The $30 stickers are designed to make you look less like an otter while you’re frolicking around in a wetsuit. Shark Camo also makes a camo Lycra wetsuit cover that you’ll be too embarrassed to wear—even if you can see sharks from shore. Â
via GetOutdoors [Nollie]
The meathead rocking the Zubaz laughs at the guy wearing that wetsuit.
So you dont get eaten by a shark, instead bitten by a horny male sea snake trying to get all jiggy with the snakes on the bottom of your surf board. And forget about the wet suit.
[...] If adding shark camo to your seal costume hasn’t put your mind at ease, you might take a look at this new study that shows some rare earth magnets repel sharks. Researches think that the magnets overload a shark’s sensory network around its brain causing it to freak out. The bad news is that the magnets only have an effective range of 10 inches, so shark-proofing your wetsuit would involve covering it with out 40 pounds of metal. Instead, researchers are trying to create technologies that will keep sharks off pedestrian beaches without tangling them in nets. [...]