ArticlePeerJ2018
Effectiveness of five personal shark-bite deterrents for surfers.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Personal electric deterrents can reduce shark bites from the three species responsible for the most fatal interactions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Capture Response and Long-Term Fate of White Sharks (Biology · 2023Article
- Bull Shark (Biology · 2023Article
- The Australian Shark-Incident Database for quantifying temporal and spatial patterns of shark-human conflict.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Predicting potential future reduction in shark bites on people.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Variable response to electric shark deterrents in bull sharks, Carcharhinus leucas.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Coexisting with sharks: a novel, socially acceptable and non-lethal shark mitigation approach.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
The number of shark-human interactions and shark bites per capita has been increasing since the 1980s, leading to a rise in measures developed to mitigate the risk of shark bites. Yet many of the products commercially available for personal protection have not been scientifically tested, potentially providing an exaggerated sense of security to the people using them. We tested five personal shark deterrents developed for surfers (
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