A study suggests that wrapping a surfboard in very bright lights — like aquatic Christmas trees — could make the surfer less interesting to great white sharks.

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped boards fitted with different configurations of lights behind a boat to see which attracted the most attention.

But there’s a new study out of Australia that shows some promise in deterring shark attacks. Entitled Counterillumination Reduces Bites by Great White Sharks, the study comes from Macquarie University in Sydney,

In a study off the South African coast, researchers found that the sharks were less likely to interact with decoys that were being towed with LED lighting

Latest research shows that covering your surfboard in bright lights may actually help stave off shark attacks.

Surfers could be protected from future shark attacks following new discoveries about how to trick sharks' visual systems made by Professor Nathan Hart, head of Macquarie University's Neurobiology Lab,