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People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for decades--the military even issued a chemical shark repellent called “Shark Chaser” to pilots, sailors, and astronauts(!) from the end of World War II through the start of the Vietnam War. Thing is… it didn’t really work. Learn why they bothered passing it out--or even created it in the first place.
Credits:
Producer: Andrew Sobey
Writer: Samantha Jones, Ph.D.
Scientific Consultants: Leila Duman, PhD, Michelle Boucher, PhD, Joseph Sisneros, Ph.D. Eric M. Stroud, Ph.D.
Executive Producer: George Zaidan
Executive Producer: Hilary Hudson
Music:
Atmospheres Darkened—Oliver Adam Spink & Christopher Timothy White
Sources:
Natural Product-Based Biopesticides for Insect Control
tinyurl.com/yx3huljj
A DIGEST OF THE LITERATURE OF DERRIS (DEGUELIA) SPECIES USED AS INSECTICIDES, 1747-1931
naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/CAT87205491/PDF
STUDY OF THE TOXICITY OF TOXICAROL...USING THE GOLDFISH AS THE TEST ANIMAL. Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc. 53: 1897-1901. 1931.
Removing Fish from Ponds with Rotenone
tinyurl.com/veqabku
Insecticides
tinyurl.com/sgf9bcj
Naval Research Reviews
tinyurl.com/u325cvr
International Shark Attack File
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, by Mary Roach
wwnorton.com/books/Grunt
Shark Senses and Shark Repellents
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1749-4877.12095
Anti-Shark Suit
tinyurl.com/uocw76v
Surfactants as chemical shark repellents: past, present, and future
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-3245-1_9
The effectiveness of sodium lauryl sulphate as a shark repellent in a laboratory test situation
tinyurl.com/wx56mve
Shark Repellents From The Sea: New Perspectives
tinyurl.com/u5hvcb4
The Allure of Natural Shark Repellent
tinyurl.com/tlx88zq
From the CIA: Julia Child and the OSS Recipe for Shark Repellent
tinyurl.com/oxl2ard
Shark Chaser Report 1945
fws.gov/news/Historic/NewsReleases/1945/19451026.pdf
US Navy Synthetically Recreates Biomaterial to Assist Military Personnel
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=98521
Performance of a long lasting shark repellent bait for elasmobranch bycatch reduction during commercial pelagic longline fishing
bit.ly/35ymkq9
Fatality after deliberate ingestion of the pesticide rotenone: a case report
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1175899
Membrane composition determines pardaxin's mechanism of lipid bilayer disruption.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1302204
Pharyngeal cavity and the gills are the target organ for the repellent action of pardaxin in shark.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3996550
Compound Interest Shark Week Special
compoundchem.com/2014/08/11/sharkrepellents
Shark repellent: not yet, maybe never.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2119017
Shark repellent lipophilic constituents in the defense secretion of the Moses sole (Pardachirus marmoratus)
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004101018890325X
Shark Defense Technologies
http://www.sharkdefense.com/about-us
Chemical repellent tests on white sharks
bit.ly/304WOaS
Shark Chaser Freedom 7
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/shark-chaser-freedom-7-0
Studies on the Development of Potential Biomarkers for Rapid Assessment of Copper Toxicity to Freshwater Fish using Esomus danricus as Model
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3814698
Effect of surfactants on zebrafish
nature.com/articles/srep10107
Shark Repellents: Behavioral Bioassays in Laboratory and Field
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-69903-0_3
Discovering Sharks: A Volume Honoring the Work of Stewart Springer
tinyurl.com/uog2b9z
Why we love to fear sharks
tinyurl.com/sjveqf9
USS Indianapolis survivor: 'That first morning, we had sharks'
tinyurl.com/tblm2z7
National Archives Catalogue, Research Data: Shark Attacks
catalog.archives.gov/id/6946057?q=6946057
An Unsuspected Foe: Shark Attacks during World War II
tinyurl.com/qswt9uk
USS Indianapolis: How three men survived the depths of horror
tinyurl.com/v77hh3s
The Worst Shark Attack in History
bit.ly/35IPMdq
Performance of a long lasting shark repellent bait for elasmobranch bycatch reduction during commercial pelagic longline fishing
bit.ly/2R41xpp
The anatomy of a shark attack
tinyurl.com/tn6hzwh
Oceana bycatch report
oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/Bycatch_Report_FINAL.pdf
Killed by dog vs lighting vs shark
tinyurl.com/uwhz2ud
Science, policy, and the public discourse of shark “attack”: a proposal for reclassifying human–shark interactions
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-013-0107-2
Download the PBS Video App: pbs.org/pbs-video-app
People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for decades--the military even issued a chemical shark repellent called “Shark Chaser” to pilots, sailors, and astronauts(!) from the end of World War II through the start of the Vietnam War. Thing is… it didn’t really work. Learn why they bothered passing it out--or even created it in the first place.
Credits:
Producer: Andrew Sobey
Writer: Samantha Jones, Ph.D.
Scientific Consultants: Leila Duman, PhD, Michelle Boucher, PhD, Joseph Sisneros, Ph.D. Eric M. Stroud, Ph.D.
Executive Producer: George Zaidan
Executive Producer: Hilary Hudson
Music:
Atmospheres Darkened—Oliver Adam Spink & Christopher Timothy White
Sources:
Natural Product-Based Biopesticides for Insect Control
tinyurl.com/yx3huljj
A DIGEST OF THE LITERATURE OF DERRIS (DEGUELIA) SPECIES USED AS INSECTICIDES, 1747-1931
naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/CAT87205491/PDF
STUDY OF THE TOXICITY OF TOXICAROL...USING THE GOLDFISH AS THE TEST ANIMAL. Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc. 53: 1897-1901. 1931.
Removing Fish from Ponds with Rotenone
tinyurl.com/veqabku
Insecticides
tinyurl.com/sgf9bcj
Naval Research Reviews
tinyurl.com/u325cvr
International Shark Attack File
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, by Mary Roach
wwnorton.com/books/Grunt
Shark Senses and Shark Repellents
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1749-4877.12095
Anti-Shark Suit
tinyurl.com/uocw76v
Surfactants as chemical shark repellents: past, present, and future
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-3245-1_9
The effectiveness of sodium lauryl sulphate as a shark repellent in a laboratory test situation
tinyurl.com/wx56mve
Shark Repellents From The Sea: New Perspectives
tinyurl.com/u5hvcb4
The Allure of Natural Shark Repellent
tinyurl.com/tlx88zq
From the CIA: Julia Child and the OSS Recipe for Shark Repellent
tinyurl.com/oxl2ard
Shark Chaser Report 1945
fws.gov/news/Historic/NewsReleases/1945/19451026.pdf
US Navy Synthetically Recreates Biomaterial to Assist Military Personnel
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=98521
Performance of a long lasting shark repellent bait for elasmobranch bycatch reduction during commercial pelagic longline fishing
bit.ly/35ymkq9
Fatality after deliberate ingestion of the pesticide rotenone: a case report
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1175899
Membrane composition determines pardaxin's mechanism of lipid bilayer disruption.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1302204
Pharyngeal cavity and the gills are the target organ for the repellent action of pardaxin in shark.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3996550
Compound Interest Shark Week Special
compoundchem.com/2014/08/11/sharkrepellents
Shark repellent: not yet, maybe never.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2119017
Shark repellent lipophilic constituents in the defense secretion of the Moses sole (Pardachirus marmoratus)
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004101018890325X
Shark Defense Technologies
http://www.sharkdefense.com/about-us
Chemical repellent tests on white sharks
bit.ly/304WOaS
Shark Chaser Freedom 7
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/shark-chaser-freedom-7-0
Studies on the Development of Potential Biomarkers for Rapid Assessment of Copper Toxicity to Freshwater Fish using Esomus danricus as Model
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3814698
Effect of surfactants on zebrafish
nature.com/articles/srep10107
Shark Repellents: Behavioral Bioassays in Laboratory and Field
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-69903-0_3
Discovering Sharks: A Volume Honoring the Work of Stewart Springer
tinyurl.com/uog2b9z
Why we love to fear sharks
tinyurl.com/sjveqf9
USS Indianapolis survivor: 'That first morning, we had sharks'
tinyurl.com/tblm2z7
National Archives Catalogue, Research Data: Shark Attacks
catalog.archives.gov/id/6946057?q=6946057
An Unsuspected Foe: Shark Attacks during World War II
tinyurl.com/qswt9uk
USS Indianapolis: How three men survived the depths of horror
tinyurl.com/v77hh3s
The Worst Shark Attack in History
bit.ly/35IPMdq
Performance of a long lasting shark repellent bait for elasmobranch bycatch reduction during commercial pelagic longline fishing
bit.ly/2R41xpp
The anatomy of a shark attack
tinyurl.com/tn6hzwh
Oceana bycatch report
oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/Bycatch_Report_FINAL.pdf
Killed by dog vs lighting vs shark
tinyurl.com/uwhz2ud
Science, policy, and the public discourse of shark “attack”: a proposal for reclassifying human–shark interactions
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-013-0107-2
