As the study’s lead author, Dr. Laura Ryan, told The Guardian, the key was to disrupt the shark’s ability to make out the decoy’s silhouette. “When you do horizontal stripes, the silhouette [appears] wider than it is long, so it’s less like a ...

Surfers could be protected from future shark attacks following new discoveries about how to trick sharks' visual systems made by Professor Nathan Hart, head of Macquarie University's Neurobiology Lab,