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by wxce
1080 days ago
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Assuming that a wet-suit does not help with such bites, would it be feasible to make a full-body suit from the same material? I'm a layman (or worse) in this area, and I was wondering if somethings similar could be made for shark bites. After Googling, I found someone claiming that they have. How hard would would it be to "combine these two"? (Both of the above may be stupid questions) |
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Shaping something for the whole body would be difficult, because most puncture resistant materials aren’t very stretchy. You’d have to have the perfect shape for a specific person. It probably is possible, but likely to take a lot of work and be rather uncomfortable.
Doing some quick googling, I find sharkstop.co, which makes wetsuits to protect against shark attacks. They say the “placement of Shark Stop panels … have been strategically chosen to significantly reduce the amount of blood lost during a shark bite incident…” It sounds like they’re carefully choosing the location to make trade offs between protection and wearability, which I suspect is the right approach. We do the same thing with our booties, and only have stingray resistant material covering some percentage of the bootie.