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Personal Shark Repellant

Posted by michael on from the hope-the-batteries-don't-run-out dept.

Ahab writes "Now if only Robert Shaw had had one of these... Reuters is running this thinly-veiled press release about a personal anti-shark unit. The unit creates an electric field around the swimmer that only affects sharks. The smallest unit repels sharks at a distance of about 6 to 9 feet, and will retail for $240."

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  1. Originally Patented in South Aftrica in 1995 by EvilBastard · · Score: 2, Informative
    This page from an abalone website has the NYT original article

    I know they have been used a bit in Western Australia by professional abalone divers, and also in the Sydney Olympics in the harbor divers. Looks like they just made a nice small one for the consumer market

    (Of course, it helps if we stop dressing up like their favorite food and doing seal impressions around them, but hey, it's never our fault, is it)