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.

Covering your surfboard in bright lights sounds like an open invitation to great white ... said the lights caused a "complex interaction" with the shark's behavior. "It's like an invisibility cloak but with the exception that we are splitting the object ...

“We have shown these lights break up the silhouette of the surfboard into smaller pieces, and that’s clearly something that the shark doesn’t recognize as prey,” Hart said. “It’s sort of like an invisibility cloak but with the exception that we ...