{"id":2608,"date":"2013-07-29T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2013-07-29T22:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:00:39","slug":"shark-deterrent-wetsuit-has-been-developed-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Shark Deterrent Wetsuit Has Been Developed In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, to my friend Jerry, who brought this article to my attention.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian company has developed a wetsuit that either makes divers and surfers invisible or hard to detect. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not exactly certain how well it would work night diving on a moonlit night, but if you&#8217;re an attention whore, you will certainly stand out wearing this:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/antisharksuit677840.jpg' alt='Anti-shark suit' \/><\/p>\n<p>Both types of wetsuits cost about $460 &#8211; I hope those are Australian Dollars.<\/p>\n<p>As the original article states, <em> &#8220;Many animals are repelled by a striped pattern which indicates the potential prey is unsafe to eat,&#8221; Shaun Collin, part of the team that designed the suit at UWA told BBC News. <\/p>\n<p>At the very least, the suits might buy the swimmer some time to make a getaway.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86FdOtw9W4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/technology\/anti-shark-suits-could-make-surfers-unappealing-snack-6C10761511\" target=\"_new\">Anti-shark suits could make surfers an unappealing snack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, to my friend Jerry, who brought this article to my attention. An Australian company has developed a wetsuit that either makes divers and surfers invisible or hard to detect. I&#8217;m not exactly certain how well it would work night diving on a moonlit night, but if you&#8217;re an attention whore, you will certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,9,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}