Bio-inspired camouflage to prevent shark attacks on surfers

仿生伪装，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，以保护冲浪者和桨手。鲨鱼袭击对受害者的身体和情感都是毁灭性的，并使社区格外害怕。冲浪者受到攻击的风险最大，但目前安装在冲浪板上的威慑装置是无效的，而且没有被广泛使用。这个项目将建立在最近发现的基础上，即大白鲨不会攻击逆光（发光）海豹形诱饵，并利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淘汰计划的依赖来保护受威胁的鲨鱼物种，以保证人们在水中的安全。

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.