This innovative couple in the Outer Banks made their own shark cages so they could swim in the ocean. YouTube There have been an unusual number of shark attacks this year, particularly in North Carolina, where more than half a dozen have already been reported this summer. In one particularly bad case, two teenagers lost limbs.

That isn't stopping people from going to the beach. They're just getting a little more creative before entering the water. One couple this past weekend was spotted walking into the ocean in the Outer Banks wearing what appeared to be homemade cages to fend off sharks.

The older man and woman held the steel-looking cages over their heads, with the bars draping almost the entire length of their bodies.

They got about waist-deep in the ocean with the cages when a lifeguard blew his whistle and ushered them back to shore.

It was a good thought and the couple seems to have done it all in good fun. Even still, maybe they should take their contraption to investors and pitch it on Shark Tank.