Scientists find new bite-resistant wetsuits can reduce shark bite injuries

Portland, Maine – Australian scientists have tested the strength of the combinations of manufacturing resistant to bites by allowing sharks to chompt sea materials and have found that costumes can help ensure the safety of swimmers.

Deadly shark bites are disappeared, with less than 50 shark stings not caused on humans worldwide in 2024, according to the international shark attacks at Florida Museum of Natural History. But the increased observations of large sharks in certain parts of the world have swimmers, surfers and divers in search of new ways of staying safe.

Scientists from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, have tested four materials resistant to bites and found that they all reduce the amount of damage to shark bites. They carried out the work by dragging samples of the materials behind the boats and allowing the white and tiger sharks to bite the samples.

As important sharks can still cause internal and overwhelming injury, but materials have shown efficiency beyond a combination of standard neoprene, scientists said. Research has revealed that bite-resistant materials “can reduce injuries suffered by shark meetings,” said Professor Flinders Charlie Huveneers, member of the Southern Shark Ecology Group of Flinders and co-author of the study.

“The bite -resistant material does not prevent shark bites, but can reduce injury of shark bites and can be carried by surfers and divers,” said Huveneers.

There were small differences between the four materials tested, but they all “reduced the quantity of substantial and critical damage, which would generally be associated with severe hemorrhage and loss of tissues or members,” said Tom Clarke, researcher at the scientific and engineering college in Flinders and co-author of the study.

Cmail combinations to resist shark bites have been around for decades, but lack flexibility for aquatic activities such as surfing and diving, scientists said in research published in the journal Wildlife Research on Thursday. More recent combinations can be designed to provide flexibility as well as protection.

Scientists have tested the effectiveness of combination of combination Aqua Armor, Shark Stop, Actiontx-S and Brewster. Scientists said in their article that they had found that all the materials “offer an improved level of protection that can reduce serious injury and blood loss, and should be considered as part of the toolbox and the measures available to reduce the risk of cock and the resulting injuries”.

The promise of effective -resistant -resistant combinations of sharks is encouraging for people who spend a lot of time in fields where there are large sharks, said Nick Whitney, a main scientist and president of the Fisheries Science and Emerging Technologies program at the New England Aquarium Cabot Center for Ocean Life in Boston. This includes Spear surfers and specialties, he said.

Whitney, who was not involved in the study, said that it was also encouraging that materials probably do not make a person to “feel invincible” and to engage in risky behaviors around sharks.

“I also like it because it does not rely on an impact on the behavior of the shark,” said Whitney. “It is fundamentally very, very simple. In the extremely rare event that you are bitten by a shark, this material will do you, hopefully, less than you would do if you do not wear that.”

The researchers said that the prosecution does not eliminate all the risks of the sharks and that precautions must still be taken around animals.

But they hope that their research will help the public to “make appropriate decisions concerning the relevance of the use of these products,” said Huveneers.