Recently, an Australian clothes making firm based in Sydney created what they advertised as 'Shark Proof Bathing Suits'. With financial backing from local universities, the firm created two types of these bathing suits. So what are these bathing suits with the ability to repel sharks? What abnormal powers do they possess? To be honest, they are but regular bathing suits but with what the creators see as a touch of genius: different colours. That is all. So what do these colours do to make them different from your bog-standard, common or garden (or is that lake or ocean?) bathing suit? Well, the first is dark blue which supposedly makes the person donning the swimming costume invisible to sharks. Nice try, but with one tiny problem: sharks don't just use their sense of sight, but they sense movements in the water around them and smell what they think might be prey. So has the second got anything better than the first? Well, the answer is it is even worse. The second has black and white stripes which are to make the person wearing it look similar to a belcher sea snake (a poisonous marine creature). This takes advantage of the shark's bad eyesight, as they won't realise that the person is much larger than a sea snake. Again, there is a slight problem: sharks love to eat belcher sea snakes.
So there you have it; don't trust the bathing suits. And to the makers, I say "Back to the drawing board, bonkers boffins!!"
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