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Shark-Proof Surfboards and Wetsuits Have Arrived

Here is a stat you may prefer to avoid – surfers are at the highest risk of shark attacks. Last year in Australia 63% of shark attack victims were surfers.With the Western Australian coastline facing the highest number of fatal shark attacks worldwide, eight in the past five years, new measures have been implemented to combat the rising fatalities. One controversial solution was the 2014 WA ‘shark cull’. From the beginning of summer 2014 to April 2014, a total of 172 sharks had reportedly been captured and shot. WA surfers and scientists have joined forces to explore a more humane solution. A collaboration between the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia and surfer-entrepreneurs Craig Anderson and Hamish Jolly from Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS), has led to a ‘shark friendly’ answer- a shark deterring wetsuit. They do not zap the sharks...

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