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Essentially, design a wet suit that tastes so bad to sharks, that when they bite it, they just spit it back out again.
Rodney Fox
http://www.rodneyfo...iew&id=38&Itemid=51
How you look after the shark has had a taste [spidermother, Sep 15 2008]
Bethany Hamilton
http://www.wetassch...BethanyHamilton.jpg
[normzone, Sep 15 2008]
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Cincinnati Chili should do the trick. ( I
mean, cinnamon + meat + chocolate ,
come
on...??) |
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Once they bite it, aren't you going to have holes all through you? |
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(Maybe a bunch of streamers extending from the wetsuit so that sharks tend to bite those instead of you, first) |
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Perhaps a large "use by" date printed
clearly on the suit. |
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The clever bit is that you print a date
which has already expired (by at least
three months, just to be sure). |
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Ha ha Fish! Humans win again. Stupid fish. |
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try human male sweat or worse, human male socks - that should work at 25 feet or more |
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There are two types of divers - those that pee in their wetsuits, and those that lie about it. |
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It doesn't seem to dissuade the sharks any. Maybe they like the flavor of pissy neoprene. |
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I've talked to a guy who's tasted seal - he couldn't bring himself to describe the flavor, just made faces, noises, and shuddered. And to a shark, seals are candy. |
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Unfortunately, what tastes bad to a shark is people. We are like fat-free potato chips to them. They also don't like surfboards. |
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Of course, they have to take a taste to be sure. |
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I'm not sure what this would have to taste like in order to be effective. |
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Surely, the simpler solution is to develop a
fish-flavoured dive suit for your divebuddy
to wear? |
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[UB] has put his finger on it. The fact that we are not as tasty as the seal that they are expecting is small consolation to the fact that the small "Taster" that the sharks enjoy is usually sufficient to render the human severley fucked and bent!. |
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...but on the other hand, maybe there is something that tastes bad to sharks, we just might not know what it is yet...so I'll throw in a yucky tasting bun + |
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//when they bite it, they just spit it back out//
As mentioned, all humans already wear this wetsuit. |
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Not a good idea - by the time the shark's realised you taste bad, it's too late. |
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I dunno, this works for many critters that can't defend themselves. They either taste like crap or are poisonous and brightly marked. (+) |
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Perhaps if every diver or submersible was similarly colored, (at least above certain depths) and tasted awful, ocean predators would just leave us alone after a while. |
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Aha, a water-tight double-layered suit with thinly sandwiched fast-dispersing awful-tasting bubbly explosive reactants to salt water, bursting only outward through the puncture hole in the outer layer? |
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Guys, ahhh stupid question, but how are we gonna ever know what tastes bad to a shark? |
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Should be pretty easy to test on aquarium sharks. |
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// 20,000 years or so oughta do it.//
Sooner begun, sooner done. |
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A journey of a thousand bites begins with one nibble. |
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Or, "How do you eat a beautiful surfer girl?" |
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Answer: "One bite at a time". (link) |
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[+] funny and perfectly hafbaked. |
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I wonder if you could find a fish with coloring/scent that sharks already avoid, and pattern wetsuits after that. I have my doubts, because my understanding is that sharks take a bite out of everything on occasion, but it would be interesting to pursue. |
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if given enough exposure animals will
learn that the new cue means "food
inside" much as pacific sharks
acclimated to, then became attracted
by, navy shark repellant. I suspect that
avoiding strong curiosity inspiring
smells and patterns would be best.
Adding a deceptive EM signal might
work disturbing some sharks at close
range. A few watts of extra EMR would
really throw many creatures that use it
for hunting. |
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// Adding a deceptive EM signal...//
The opposite surely, you'd want to faraday-cage a wetsuit to keep the body from emitting EM. |
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