BREAKING: Sharks Actually Like Death Metal Music?

Ben Graham | July 10, 2015
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With "Shark Week" going strong, a research team heads out to the deep ocean to study great white sharks. The twist? They’ve traded a bucket of chum for a few hundred decibels of death metal music.

They use a military-grade underwater speaker to blast the gut-busting riffs that are characteristic to the genre. The music plays to two key senses for the shark, to their hearing in their inner ears (that they do indeed have) and to their ability to pick up low frequency vibrations. The sharks mistake the dense tones for the signals of struggling fish.

Craziest part is, it works! It draws in two sharks, one over 14 feet long!

Maybe they should try this tune next time?

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