Wet doesn’t always equate to warm when talking surfing, but a bounty of technology in Body Glove’s new Vapor X wetsuit takes the focus away from wet and puts it squarely on warm. And all with a ...

Frustrated with neoprene wetsuit gloves, Furnace set out to develop “response dry gloves,” which are lighter, warmer and last twice as long as neoprene gloves, said Belfort.

People talk about the concept of the “one-board quiver,” but the thing is. there’s kind of no such thing. Who wants to ride a 6’6” pintail when it’s waist high, and you can’t ride one when it’s too ...

The five-millimeter gloves ($41) and hood ($57) performed exceptionally as well. The only complaint I have about the entire get-up concerns the seven-millimeter booties ($86).

This wetsuit glove equipped with octopus-inspired suckers can stick to both curved and flat objects made of different materials. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech ...

Meistrell, whose Body Glove wetsuits helped revolutionize surfing and deep-sea diving, died Tuesday from Parkinson’s disease at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, his family said.

At 77, Bob Meistrell leads deep-sea diving expeditions to Catalina Island and remains at the helm of Body Glove International, the multimillion-dollar Redondo Beach surf company he co-founded with his ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — Bob Meistrell, who co-founded the Body Glove clothing company and helped develop the first neoprene wetsuit, has died in Southern California. He was 84.

Wetsuits marketed towards surfers tend to be the best all-around wetsuits for general water sports like casual swimming, bodyboarding, snorkeling, and paddling.