Music
AC/DC songs 'relax great white sharks'
Thursday, June 2 2011, 11:09 BST
By Lewis Corner, Music Reporter
AC/DC songs calm down great white sharks, an Australian charter boat operator has claimed.
Matt Waller, who was looking for methods to encourage great whites to get closer to the tourists he regularly takes out to Shark Bay in the Neptune Islands, insisted that tracks by AC/DC help to relax the sharks.
Waller researched what repelled great whites and then decided to test the exact opposite to try and attract them, which led to his discovery.
"I started going through my albums and AC/DC was something that really hit the mark," he told ABC News.
"Their behaviour was more investigative, more inquisitive and a lot less aggressive - they actually came past in a couple of occasions when we had the speaker in the water and rubbed their face along the speaker which was really bizarre."
Waller believes that the sharks react to AC/DC anthems due to the band's low-frequency music, which is compatible with the shark's earless method of sensitive hearing through vibrations.
"I've seen the sharks rub their faces on the cage where the sound is coming from as if to feel it," he added.
Waller also revealed that the sharks reacted to AC/DC's 'You Shook Me All Night Long' most strongly.
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