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Scientists from Australia are touting the results of bite-resistant wetsuit materials to reduce deaths from shark attacks.

Researchers from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, tested four wetsuit materials — Aqua Armour, Shark Stop, ActionTX-S and Brewster — inviting white and tiger sharks to bite the material as it was dragged behind a boat.

Tiger and white sharks are the two species responsible for the most unprovoked shark attacks .

"It’s not the entire suit, right, they’ve only used that special material in special parts of the suit, and it’s designed to protect you in the places that are most dangerous for blood loss and protect the major arteries," Nick Whitney, a senior scientist at the New Englan

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