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Maybe it didn’t quite. Sharks aren’t normally coöperative hunters...

[Capt. Tom]

They have had trouble before with persons wearing the electronic devices to repel sharks and then getting killed by sharks. A few years back an Australian swimmer died after being attacked while wearing the device.

Another person was killed besides the swimmer and diver and there was this in the Australian newspapers about the third death.

An inquest heard yesterday the Shark Shield surf model was activated on a float carrying bait when the 3.6m female shark approached. Rather than being deterred by the device, the shark, under the gaze of the Natal Sharks Board, bit into it.

South Australian Deputy State Coroner Tony Schapel yesterday heard of the test failure during the inquest into the death of Jarrod Stehbens, who was taken by a great white shark while diving off Glenelg in South Australia in 2005.

I guess more work will have to be done on this device.
Back to the drawing boards.- tom