said the lights caused a "complex interaction" with the shark's behavior. "It's like an invisibility cloak but with the exception that we are splitting the object, the visual silhouette, into smaller bits," Hart said. The study's authors released a video ...

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped boards fitted with different configurations of lights behind a boat to see which attracted the most attention.

“We have shown these lights break up the silhouette of the surfboard into smaller pieces, and that’s clearly something that the shark doesn’t recognize as prey,” Hart said. “It’s sort of like an invisibility cloak but with the exception that we ...