The vest can be worn under various types of wetsuits, features an air-release valve, and allows a surfer to paddle and swim when it’s fully inflated. The vest still it the test phase and not ...

A friend working in a lab suggested using a material called neoprene. O’Neill experimented with the product and came up with the first wetsuit vest.

Red Bull’s all-encompassing guide to surfing, from how to read the waves to what boards to ride, what wetsuit to buy and much more.

A friend working in a lab suggested using a material called neoprene. O’Neill experimented with the product and came up with the first wetsuit vest.

I am used to wild swimming without a wetsuit in the summer months. I sometimes pop on a 1mm wetsuit vest on cooler summer days so a 2mm thick wetsuit in summer would feel quite warming for me.

SANTA CRUZ — Jack O’Neill, a giant in the surfing world who invented the wetsuit, is dead. O’Neill died Friday morning surrounded by family and friends, said Dan Haifley, executive director ...

Jack O’Neill was just looking for a way to keep warm. The waters in Northern California were so frigid that winter surf sessions barely lasted an hour before ice cream headaches forced surfer… ...

The fourth instalment of Red Bull’s all-encompassing guide to surfing, from how to read the waves to what boards to ride, what wetsuit to buy and much more.

A friend working in a lab suggested using a material called neoprene. O’Neill experimented with the product and came up with the first wetsuit vest.