This informative buyers guide will introduce shoppers to the industries leading wetsuit brands and highlight wetsuit tops and jackets that are sustainably made.

A wetsuit’s thickness refers to the thickness of the neoprene, which correlates to how warm it will be in the water. Like a jacket, the thicker it is, the more insulation it will provide.

Wetsuit maker Xcel recently announced they will be neoprene-free a year ahead of schedule. The post Wetsuit Maker Xcel Accelerates Plan to Go Neoprene-Free first appeared on The Inertia.

Finisterre Women's Nieuwland shorty wetsuit: first impressions The fabric of the wetsuit is soft and feels nice to the touch. It feels much softer than normal wetsuit fabric.

Australian performance water sports apparel company Zhik has scored a major win with its industry-first high-performance neoprene-free wetsuit range. Founded in 2003 by Brian Connolly, the creator ...

Jack O’Neill, the Santa Cruz entrepreneur who opened one of the world’s first surf shops and pioneered the neoprene wetsuit that helped popularize year-round cold-water surfing, has died.

Manhattan Beach-based Body Glove started experimenting with neoprene in 1953. But with few surf companies in the market, O’Neill had years to perfect the wetsuit.

Hugh Bradner, a UC physicist whose love of the ocean and curiosity about everything in it led him to revolutionize diving by inventing the neoprene wetsuit, has died at his home in San Diego at ...