Anyone who is regularly doing water sports or diving for long periods in water faces the difficulty of staying warm. Without some form of water compatible insulation most ocean or lake water will quickly take body heat right out of you.

With huge improvements in technology over the past 5 years wetsuits have made great strides in functionality. As this technology advanced so did the various options of different coloured wetsuits become available, so much so that people really started making fashion statements with brands such as Quicksilver wetsuits and Billabong wetsuits leading the way.

Wetsuits are no longer made out of black rubber but neoprene which is found in all modern wetsuit, this material is used because it has a unique attribute of heating up the body by storing some water inside the material. Other more interesting methods have been put forward and starting to break through, for example gel based heating and solar panel heating.

Rip Curl wetsuits have been pioneers in heated wetsuits. A new product just launched by Rip Curl called the H-Bomb is aimed to take the wetsuit market by storm. The wetsuit has a thickness of 3/2 millimetres and a special heated panel that runs down your spine. The perfect invention to keep those chills away in cold water. These developments promise to allow the surfer to spend so much more time in the water when out surfing, without risking hypothermia or even the discomfort of getting cold.

These developments really prove how far the surfing wetsuit has come since the initial proposals that were made to the US navy for diving suits. The benefit of all this new technology is people are going to be able to enjoy themselves in the sea all year round, hot or cold.

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