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AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks
bazzalunatic writes "It turns out great white sharks can be lured underwater to cages by playing hits from AC/DC — specifically 'Shook me all night long'. Matt Waller, a shark diving tour operator in Australia, has found this curious fact. But it's not just any song, as the sharks weren't attracted by other tunes. Matt suspects the sharks are attracted to the low frequencies found in AC/DC's music. One wonders if they'll be turned off by Celine Dion music — a new type of shark repellent perhaps?"
So we put Beiber down there and tie some sort of underwater speakers onto his body...
Sharks that taste good or sharks with good taste?
I vote: THUNDERSTRUCK!
Is anyone surprised sharks already into Great White also like AC/DC?
Music Source: Grooveshark.com?
I must have some as Celine Dion's music repels me as well......
I thought this would be an article on lawyers within the music industry. My bad.
I just came thinking of all the awesome laser shark jokes I could post. I don't know whether to be happy or sad now... like always. :(
can be lured underwater to cages by playing hits from AC/DC, and have lazerz atached... there fixd taht for you!
Australian scientists discovered that AC/DC are actually cool and even sharks can't deny it!
Then again, who thought sharks were your typical Brittney Spears fans?...
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Shake a fin on me.
Reminds me of Dethwater
-Richard L. Owens
So wait, did the shark just jump AC/DC?
Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus.
Perhaps when played underwater, AC/DC's music sounds like Great White music. Did they try playing "Once Bitten Twice Shy"?
Getting hammered blastin AC/DC and catching SHARKS!!
They will eat your face!
In fact I may leave work right now.
If I were only smart enough to accomplish the things I dream about.. Or maybe too dumb to care.
The vocalist sounds like a seal in distress. That would draw a great white shark like a dinner bell.
I am glad Lupe Fiasco didn't sample AC/DC in his latest album. Sharks are dangerous enough. We don't need to get them attached to that music.
The White Stripes and Woflmother are certainly no AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. It doesn't take a million years of evolution to know that The White Stripes really aren't that good.
We'll see you at the dive bar.
My, my, my
What would happen if AC/DC plays the theme from Jaws?
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
"It turns out great white sharks can be lured underwater to cages by playing hits from AC/DC"
WTF were the sharks doing out of the water in the first place?
"They will be trying out Led Zeppelin, the white stripes, and wolfmother."
(or something close to that)
That is exactly what I thought as soon as I read "low frequencies.... Jimmy Page's les paul almost invented that sound. Although, could it be the voice? We aren't using a controlled environment with these additional bands as all of the voices are very unique (not canned boy bands).
...getting close enough to tag a particular shark or two and playing types of music at random intervals over a given time frame, say a year or so.
Keep try to pick music of the same base level to play for a designated amount of time. Try other types of music that have higher pitches and lots less base. Use vocals, don't use vocals, and record your findings which include the Name of the Song, the album it was played from, the artist, the length of time the music played for, on what type of system the music was played on, GPS locations, time of day, weather conditions, water conditions and any other key data. Once you have all of this nice wonderful data, put it out on the web for others to research and study as well.
I'm curious, was the music was of the best sound quality or super compressed?
What equipment did he use to play the music in the water?
Does he know how loud the music volume was?
The lowest sound to the highest volume?
Was it feeding time?
Was the shark in the area before music was playing or after?
My curiosity is peaked.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
So THAT's why they were playing AC/DC when they buried Bin Laden at sea!
After all these years, the reason they attack humans is to shake them "all night long".
Shark me all night long!
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Do the sharks have a preference?
Bon was a wild man, but he also once sang in a bubblegum pop band.
Brian's got a great voice, but lately he's also developed a great gut.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Did he chum the waters listening to AC/DC?
I was once on an alligator tour in the everglades, and the fanboat operator explained that the gators recognise the sound of the individual boat engines, based on which of the tour guides would feed them in the early morning, and how those guides each took different routes.
They essentially trained them to come to the sounds of the engines to enhance the tour experience.
> One wonders if they'll be turned off by Celine Dion music — a new type of shark repellent perhaps?
They probably would be. But so would anybody interested in going down there without the sharks.
How would they do with that track?
I would rather take my chances with the sharks.
We salute you.
So if great whites are attracted to to low sound frequencies, I wonder if they'd be even more attracted to really low downtuned death metal music? A lot of bands like Kataklysm and At the Gates tune down 3 steps to B, while Bloodbath tunes down 4 to A for most of their songs and Cannibal Corpse goes down a full 5 steps to G. These bands also play mostly on the 3 lowest strings of the guitar as well. That's also why I'd assume that AC/DC would be better at attracting sharks than Dissection. Both bands play in standard tuning, but AC/DC stays on the lower strings for the most part while Dissection plays more on the middle strings of the guitar.
Put Sunn O))) on some speakers down there and you'll have every shark for 50 miles by the end of one song.
they just thinned out over the years as AC/DC was played less... because it attracted the sharks.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
That's why you see so many sharks in black concert t-shirts
It told them to come, but they were already there.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The unlicensed playing of ANY popular music attracts sharks, regardless of the artist. Did they have a proper license to perform the music?
I do not know the name of the Australian version of this extortion group is, but are they required to pay up? I mean the sharks are an audience and they are listening and being entertained by a public performance...
Wait until they(Aussie ASCAP) realizes that music travels farther and faster underwater and the fees will really increase.
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"AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks" -- Good to know, but I'm a heterosexual male...
Has any research proven which music/songs most attract Cougars?
(I'm assuming "shark" is now slang for the male version of a "cougar".)
That's scary.
Yeah Rick Rolling them really pisses them off...
AC kills circus elephants
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
What's worse than a shark with a frickin' laser attached to its head? A shark with a laser attached to its head playing hard rock while it zaps you!
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
One wonders if they'll be turned off by Celine Dion music
Maybe their brains will asplode: You Shook Me All Night Long
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It's a long way to the shark if you wanna Rick Roll.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
This is natural selection at work. The universe wants bogans to be eaten by sharks!
One wonders if they'll be turned off by Celine Dion music — a new type of shark repellent perhaps?
Oh yes, the "Celine Dion effect" is well known. For example, playing My Heart Will Go On in railway stations late at night will magically keep the stations empty from pickpockets, rapists and other miscreants and indeed any sentient beings except cockroaches. The high notes will first melt your earwax and then your brain. Cockroaches merely lose their orientation and walk into walls.
I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work underwater too. Unless of course the sharks fight back with lasers.
--Bud