Great white sharks are “Thunderstruck� for AC/DC

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♪♫ â€œâ€¦Shook me all night long

Yeah you shook me all night long…” ♪♫

is playing on the underwater speakers as divers in the shark cage stare out into the inky blue waiting.  Slowly they begin to show up, the great whites, drawn in by the music of AC/DC.

AC/DC?

Great white shark tour operators like Matt Waller of Adventure Bay Charters based out of Port Lincoln, Australia have been experimenting with new ways to bring in great white sharks for their tour operations.  Chumming the water, while effective, is falling out of style as it makes for a much more aggressive shark viewing experience for divers in dive cages.

"We know the AC/DC music works best by trial-and-error, and we are doing more research to see what works best with different species of sharks," Waller told Adelaide Now in an interview earlier this week.  The top two songs that seem to be the most effective are "Shook Me All Night Long" and, surprisingly enough "If You Want Blood."

(via Australian Geographic, Outdoors, Action and Adventure)

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