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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 a
by wxce 3y ago
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)
- pinkmuffinere 3y agoThese are great questions! 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.