As surfers, we believe that wetsuits are the greatest invention of all time and we have divers to thank for that. Three men lay claim to inventing the wetsuit to this day! In the early 1950s a physicist at Cal Berkley, Hugh Bradner, started using neoprene to trap water close to the skin so it would stay warm.

Jack O'Neill claims he started making wetsuits in 1952 in his garage, and then started selling his wetsuits in 1959. Bob Meistrell started his company Body Glove at roughly the same time.