Shark Repelling Science

Sharks incredible sense of smells has been well documented and serves both as a way of seeking out prey and avoiding danger.

Our product is a composite of extracts from putrefied shark tissues called a “semio chemical”, or chemical signal.

When released, the cloud of repellent sends a danger signal to any shark in the area indicating that a predator could be nearby, and thus creating a temporary safety zone for the user.

 

 

The theory of repelling living sharks using semiochemicals was proposed by Baldridge in 1990 and Rusmussen and Schmidt again in 1992.

In 2001 Dr. Eric M. Stroud (SharkTec Board Member) began his qualitative analysis of semio chemical extractions on captive sharks. In 2003, with the help of Dr. Samuel Gruber, Grant Johnson and the Bimini Biological Field Station he was able to document a number of successful field tests on wild feeding sharks.

The results of these tests were presented May 26th-31st, 2004 at the Joint Meeting of Ichtyologists and Herpetologists in Norman, Oklahoma. (Link to research)

Today Dr. Stroud (SharkDefense Technologies LLC) and SharkTec  LLC continue to work to research and development new advances in this field.  (Link to Bios)