Video: Why did we give sailors, soldiers and astronauts a shark repellent that … didn’t work?

By American Chemical Society —— Bio and Archives January 14, 2020

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WASHINGTON--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:

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