Bio-inspired camouflage to prevent shark attacks on surfers

生物启发伪装，以防止鲨鱼袭击冲浪者。该项目旨在开发一种新的鲨鱼威慑技术，以保护冲浪者和划桨者。鲨鱼袭击对受害者的身体和情感都是毁灭性的，并使社区不成比例地感到恐惧。冲浪者最有可能受到攻击，但目前安装在冲浪板上的威慑力量是无效的，也没有得到广泛使用。该项目将建立在最近发现的白色鲨鱼不攻击反照明（发光）海豹形诱饵的基础上，并使用有关鲨鱼视觉的新信息来理解为什么这种“伪装”如此成功。这也将有助于通过减少对捕杀计划的依赖来保护受威胁的鲨鱼物种，以确保人们在水中的安全。

Bio-inspired camouflage to prevent shark attacks on surfers. This project aims to develop a new shark deterrent technology to protect surfers and paddlers. Shark attacks are physically and emotionally devastating for the victims, and make the community disproportionately afraid. Surfers are at most risk of attack, but current surfboard-mounted deterrents are ineffective and not widely used. This project will build on the recent discovery that white sharks do not attack counter-illuminated (light emitting) seal-shaped decoys, and use new information about shark vision to understand why this ‘camouflage’ is so successful. This will also help to protect threatened shark species by reducing reliance on culling programs to keep people safe in the water.