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New wetsuit designs offer a layer of protection against shark bites

Lightweight materials like Kevlar and nanofibers blunt the damage from white and tiger sharks

a photograph of great white nearly biting a yellow flotation device

This white shark is chomping down on a new type of bite-resistant wetsuit material near Neptune Island Group Marine Park in South Australia.

Flinders University

By Carly Kay

These wetsuits come with a built-in shark shield.

New bite-resistant wetsuits reduce damage from the multirowed chompers of white and tiger sharks, researchers report September 25 in Wildlife Research.