目前市售的潛水衣或衝浪衣大部分都是黑色，這容易讓鯊魚誤認為潛水者是美味的鯨魚，經科學家研究後，推出了用兩種模式欺騙鯊魚的潛水衝浪衣。
第一種讓衝浪者可以與海洋的顏色結合，因為研究顯示鯊魚的視力並沒有那麼好。
第二種讓潛水者看起來為有毒的水蛇，讓鯊魚不敢靠近。
People worried about a real-life Sharknado have a new way to protect themselves against shark attacks, and it’s as easy as putting on a wetsuit. Designed by scientists at the University of Western Australia and designers at Shark Attack Mitigation Systems, the technology was created in response to the growing incidence of shark attacks on the coast of West Australia.
Researchers have created two main designs to keep sharks at bay: one makes surfers look less tasty to sharks, while the other makes swimmers almost invisible to the predators. The designs are based on the science of visual cues for shark attacks. The sort of wetsuits that many surfers currently wear are usually solid colors like black, blue or gray — not a great idea if surfers don’t want to look like seals. To avoid looking like sharkbait, these new wetsuits are boldly striped in black and white to trick the sharks into thinking that the wearer is actually poisonous. The wetsuit for swimmers bears a blue design that blends into the ocean since sharks are color-blind, according to Shark Attack Mitigation Systems.
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