How do sharks see? Your swim through shark eyes
Mostly without colour. Most sharks and rays we have eye measurements for see with just one colour type, so your bright swimsuit turns into shades of grey. Most also see far less detail than you. See your swimsuit through their eyes below.
A simulation made from published eye studies. Not what the animal feels.
Your swimsuit through shark eyes
Seven swimsuit colours, as you see them and as each shark or ray sees them. 19 of the 33 below have one colour type.
You
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
Brownbanded bamboo shark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Australian ghostshark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Australian sharpnose shark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Blacknose shark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Blacktip reef shark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Great white shark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Ornate wobbegong
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Scalloped hammerhead shark
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
South American freshwater stingray
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Spotted ratfish
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Spotted wobbegong
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Black
- White
One colour type: every swimsuit is a shade of grey.
Who sees sharpest underwater?
Every shark here has had its eyesight measured. All 30 see less detail than you.
- 1Youyou
- 2Bigeye thresher shark6 times blurrier than you
- 3Grey reef shark6.4 times blurrier than you
- 4Sandbar shark7.2 times blurrier than you
- 5Dogfish8.5 times blurrier than you
- 6Shortspine spurdog8.9 times blurrier than you
- 7Scalloped hammerhead shark9.3 times blurrier than you
- 8Great hammerhead shark9.5 times blurrier than you
- 9Blue shark9.6 times blurrier than you
- 10Tiger shark10 times blurrier than you
- 11Smooth hammerhead shark11 times blurrier than you
- 12Sand tiger shark13 times blurrier than you
- 13Bull shark15 times blurrier than you
- 14Blackmouth catshark16 times blurrier than you
- 15Smallspotted catshark16 times blurrier than you
- 16Dwarf spotted wobbegong shark17 times blurrier than you
- 17Blacktip reef shark17 times blurrier than you
- 18Velvet belly lanternshark17 times blurrier than you
- 19Port jackson shark20 times blurrier than you
- 20Carpenter's chimaera22 times blurrier than you
- 21Japanese catshark22 times blurrier than you
- 22Epaulette shark23 times blurrier than you
- 23Pacific spookfish24 times blurrier than you
- 24Cookie cutter shark24 times blurrier than you
- 25Blackbelly lanternshark25 times blurrier than you
- 26Smalleye pygmy shark25 times blurrier than you
- 27Australian ghostshark26 times blurrier than you
- 28Splendid lanternshark29 times blurrier than you
- 29Western wobbegong shark31 times blurrier than you
- 30Brownbanded bamboo shark35 times blurrier than you
- 31Viper dogfish35 times blurrier than you
For shark season
Made for shark fans and Shark Week watchers. We are not connected with any TV channel. No scary pictures here: just eyes.