So wrapping the body of a fake seal in bright, horizontally striped LED lights seems to break the silhouette ... is when someone is approached and touched by a shark, or the shark touches their surfboard, paddleboard or similar mode of transport.

Covering your surfboard in bright lights sounds like an open invitation to great white sharks, but research released Tuesday by Australian scientists found it might actually stave off attacks. Ryan and her fellow researchers showed that seal-shaped boards decked with bright horizontal lights were less likely to be attacked by great white sharks.

New research has found that using lights on the bottom side of a surfboard or kayak could put great white sharks off