shark repellants colors and patterns

[OUTSIDEWAVE]

I remember that a while back there was a topic hear about shark repellants   most interesting was the  electric one  that put out a signal  and supposedly worked well and was going on sale. Did anyone ever see a follow up on that?
 on a similar note   what about patterns like stripes etc.   do those work?   is there any research to back any of this up?
I actually saw a guy at Terramar  ( 2 guys that   had the bottom of their boards  sort of zebra striped)  any  sense in that?

[PDLSFR]

Here are a few articles:

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/01/lionfish-patterned-suit-said-to-repel-sharks/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23357682

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

I can personally guarantee that the lionfish rashguard will deter any shark.

[stoneaxe]

Pretty sure it deters a lot of things......

Every time I see/hear a conversation like this I'm going to think about the seal suited jitterbug rapala man from last Sunday.
http://www.standupzone.com/forum/index.php/topic,28103.0.html

There was a piece on Discovery about a small scale test on colors. Very limited so not very useful but they saw a preference for red and yellow. This actually isn't the one I'm taking about but....



and of course the mythbusters.