Shark Fishing Florida

Lights under surfboards could deter shark attacks

Two-time shark attack survivor in Florida says he can’t wait to surf again

Every day, Cole Taschman heads out to Bathtub Beach in Stuart, Florida. The quiet reef on the Atlantic Coast got its name from the “bathtub effect” which breaks up waves, creates a shallow pool at low tide and reduces erosion. For Cole and the Taschman family, who consider the beach their backyard, it is known for something else.

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Study finds great white sharks less likely to attack surfboards with bright lights: "Like an invisibility cloak"

Seal-shaped boards decked with bright horizontal lights were less likely to be attacked by great white sharks, researchers found.

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Lights under surfboards could deter shark attacks - study

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped boards fitted with different configurations of lights behind a boat to see which attracted the most attention.

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Florida surfer survives shark attack at same beach he was bitten at 11 years ago: ‘I’m dead’

A Florida surfer is on the road to recovery after he was bitten by a shark — more than a decade after he survived a similar ...

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Florida surfer survives near-fatal shark attack at same beach, 12 years after first bite

This wasn't Cole Taschman's first brush with a shark. Twelve years prior, he had been bitten by a smaller shark while surfing ...

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Florida surfer bit by shark in same spot he was bit 11 years ago: 'Same everything'

Cole Taschman was bitten by a bull or tiger shark at Bathtub Beach on the east coast of Florida last week. It's his second ...

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Surfer Survives Second Shark Attack on Same Florida Beach, 11 Years Apart

Case in point, a Florida surfer was recently bitten by a shark on the same beach he was bitten more than a decade ago.

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Florida surfer bitten by shark at same beach where he was attacked 11 years ago

But this was not Taschman's first shark attack. Amazingly enough when he was 16 years old in 2013 a blacktip reef shark bit ...

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Florida surfer is bit by a shark at the same beach he was bitten at 11 years ago

A Florida man is recovering from a shark bite just over a decade after ... Two surgeries have left the fishing charter captain with 93 stitches and about a dozen staples. He spent four days ...

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Florida surfer bit by shark at same beach where he was bitten 11 years ago

Taschman was 16 years old in 2013 when a blacktip reef shark bit his hand while surfing at the same beach. “Same beach, same ...

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