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Old September 17, 2001, 03:12 PM   #10
Coronach
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You laugh

They use very fine chainmail to armor some divers to resist shark bites, there is absolutley no theoretical reason why some form of very fine hi-tech material chainmail would not work amazingly well against thrusts or slashes by the average knife.

I, myself, considered this some time ago...and I'm sure I was not the first.

Mike
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