Wing/exposure suit colour and sharks

[BlueTrin]

I was thinking of buying some equipment in camo colour, but I was wondering if this could attract predators like sharks.

For example would this colour be too high contrast ?

https://goo.gl/images/FUPqj2

There does not seem to be a lot of information on the topic, except to avoid yellow and red.

 

[Dirty-Dog]

Sharks won't bother you unless you wear split fins, or a spare air.

 

[BlueTrin]

Sharks won't bother you unless you wear split fins, or a spare air.

Can you explain why split fins or spare air annoy sharks ? Is it the movement ?

 

[chillyinCanada]

He was joking.

 

[BlueTrin]

He was joking.

Oh well I am a tad slow

 

[Dirty-Dog]

Can you explain why split fins or spare air annoy sharks ? Is it the movement ?

It was a joke.... it's pretty well accepted that the spare air canister is a total waste, since they don't actually provide enough air to ascend from anything other than the shallowest of dives. And split fins are, likewise, not considered all that stellar an investment by most.
But you can still stop worrying about sharks. They aren't really even remotely likely to bother you.
Cows kill far more people every year than sharks do. And mosquitoes are the worlds most deadly animal. I've dove with hundreds of sharks. Not a one has ever bothered me. But a mosquito on Cozumel damn near killed me.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Oh well I am a tad slow

Hang out here in Scubaboard land, you'll learn a lot and in no time at all, you'll be telling the old jokes yourself!

Just remember, "friends don't let friends dive split fins". "Just say No"

 

[CuzzA]

I was thinking of buying some equipment in camo colour, but I was wondering if this could attract predators like sharks.

For example would this colour be too high contrast ?

https://goo.gl/images/FUPqj2

There does not seem to be a lot of information on the topic, except to avoid yellow and red.

It's unlikely a shark will have any interest in you while diving no matter what you're wearing.... put a shaft into a fish and it still won't care what you're wearing, but it might want your fish and sometimes willing to fight you for it.

For what it's worth, sharks are pretty much color blind and rely heavily on their other senses. However, since they are color blind and in poor viz a white glove would stand out against a black wet suit, you may want to avoid highly contrasting colors if you do that kind of diving. It's the same thing for swimmers at the beach in churned up water. That calf looks a lot like a fish... oops.

 

[Joneill]

It was a joke.... it's pretty well accepted that the spare air canister is a total waste, since they don't actually provide enough air to ascend from anything other than the shallowest of dives. And split fins are, likewise, not considered all that stellar an investment by most.
But you can still stop worrying about sharks. They aren't really even remotely likely to bother you.
Cows kill far more people every year than sharks do. And mosquitoes are the worlds most deadly animal. I've dove with hundreds of sharks. Not a one has ever bothered me. But a mosquito on Cozumel damn near killed me.

I've read about how split fins suck for a while and you can't frog kick, etc.,! I've dived with Scubapro Jets and more recently switched to Atomic X1 paddle fins which I like a lot- very powerful fins. However, I tried a set of Atomic Smoke on the Water split fins on my last Cayman trip in July and they were really good - no issue with frog kicking at all and no issue with subtle control either. They are also quite powerful, yet very easy/low effort, even in modest current (no idea how they would do in strong current, though). My advice is to take the split fin hate with a grain of salt.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Joneill, have you ever been diving behind someone wearing split fins?