Let's say you were in the business of creating a new type of shark repellent, and it was time for product testing. What is about the worst thing that could happen? We're guessing a shark swimming up to your gadget, taking an angry pass or two and then trying to eat it.
Which is precisely what happened when skeptics of the Shark Shield, which generates an electric field that supposedly repels the beasties, tested the device off the coast of South Africa. An 11-foot great white registered its opinion by chewing on the thing like it was a surfer's femur.
The manufacturer says the researchers erred by not arranging to have a wave-free ocean to test it in and rejects any theory that electric currents might actually attract sharks.
Great white 'ate anti-shark device'[The Australian]
