"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." WETSUITS ARE DECEPTIVELY simple. While they may seem like little more than one-piece neoprene "jumpers" ...

A diver's image is defined by his or her wetsuit. From the stick-thin Jacques Cousteau with his trademark black suit and red woollen hat, to the cutting-edge suits worn by divers working on the ...

Introduced in the early 1950s, wetsuits flopped among surfers, who saw the uncomfortable rubber skins as more suitable for wimps than wave riders. Enter Bill Meistrell, a dive-shop owner who used a ...

Entrepreneurship. By women, of women, for women. These days Meistrell still runs the operation from the company’s Redondo Beach headquarters. His brother, best friend and cofounder Bill passed away in ...

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring work to design a wetsuit that replicates the insulating properties of animal blubber—allowing divers to swim in frozen waters for longer periods of ...

Salma posted a slideshow of two photos, one of her sitting on the boat and another of her swimming underwater. She captioned the photo, “Some people run to visit the fish. Algunas personas corren ...

Waldemar Bruderer, a daring free diving athlete from Switzerland, has set the world record by diving deep under the ice at ...