SHARKS with frickin' lasers on their heads? Oh god, it's real.

News just in confirms that last weekend, a shark in the Bahamas was seen with a frickin' laser attached.

The shark was a ferocious lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris), measuring more than two metres in length.

The laser was, well, a little disappointing to be honest - a "low end of potential energy output" model from George Lucas-bothering laser manufacturers Wicked Lasers.

BUT IT WAS ATTACHED TO A SHARK NONETHELESS, proving it could be done.

The frightening experiment was conducted by Wicked Lasers after it posted a Facebook statement last week saying if 2000 people Like their post by May 27, they'll attach a real laser to a real shark.

That was Friday. By Monday, the laser was searing parts of the Bahamas sea floor and blinding clownfish. Or not, as the case may be.

Marine biologist Luke Tipple took the job on, but only after he was convinced the laser could be used for good.

"I was only interested if we could find a real world or scientific application for the technology," he told news.com.au.

"As it turned out I found a couple of promising research applications for the laser and it gave me an opportunity to test the clamp that we have developed for temporarily attaching instruments or electronic devices to sharks."

The clamp used special gel pads on the inside of its jaws to create a "tactile surface interaction". And sadly, the laser was on the shark's dorsal fin as opposed to its head.

The clamp was fitted with special zinc elements designed to corrode and see the whole shebang fall off within a month.

So how much more dangerous do sharks become when they're fitted with lasers?

"The laser we were using was not strong enough to cause ocular or thermal damage to other sea life so, while it may look super threatening, the shark was still not very dangerous," Mr Tipple said.

"Sharks as a whole are not all that dangerous."

Well, yes... but neither were monkeys until Michael Crichton gave them head-pulping rocks.

The whole mad experiment was carried out on April 24. Mr Tipple says the video will be available "later this week".

Hang on... April 24? But the Facebook post went up Friday?

We smell something fishy...

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