Jack O'Neill, icône mond lan navige ak pionye wetsuit te mouri a laj 94 nan kay li Kalifòni Samdi antoure pa fanmi li.
O'Neill, ki te ede envante wetsuit la, ki te pèmèt surfe monte vag yo nan dlo frèt, se te yon lejand nan mond lan navige epi li te ale nan chanpyon kòz anviwònman maren pita nan lavi.
94-ane fin vye granmoun lan te kreye youn nan mak yo navige pi byen li te ye sou planèt la apre yo te louvri premye boutik navige li nan San Francisco wout tounen nan 1959.
Li te kòmanse mete plak je mak li apre li te pèdi yon je nan yon aksidan navige pandan y ap monte yon vag nan ane 1970 yo.
O'Neill pita te deplase fanmi li nan sid nan Santa Cruz, Kalifòni, kote li te louvri dezyèm boutik li a, ak nan ane 1980 yo te vin pi gwo designer ak manifakti kostim nan mond lan, menm si okòmansman zanmi l 'pa t gen anpil lafwa nan envansyon inogirasyon li.
"Tout zanmi m yo te di, 'O'Neill, ou pral vann bay senk zanmi sou plaj la epi Lè sa a, ou pral soti nan biznis,'" li te fè remake, dapre fanmi l '.
Vle navige pou pi lontan nan dlo frèt yo nan kòt Kalifòni an, O'Neill te kòmanse fè eksperyans ak yon varyete de materyèl, evantyèlman envante premye kostim neoprene a, ki toujou chire pa surfe nan jounen jodi a.
Pita nan lavi li, li te kòmanse konsantre sou kòz anviwònman maren, mete kanpe O'Neill Sea Odyssey an 1996, yon bagay li te konsidere pi fyè siksè li.
Jiskaprezan pwogram nan te pèmèt prèske 100,000 timoun vwayaje sou katamaran pèsonèl li nan Sanctuary Marin Nasyonal Monterey Bay, yo nan lòd yo aprann sou konsèvasyon maren.
"Oseyan an vivan epi nou dwe pran swen li," se site lejand surfe a di. "Pa gen okenn dout nan tèt mwen ke O'Neill Sea Odyssey a se pi bon bagay mwen te janm fè."
Omaj yo te vide sou rezo sosyal soti nan gwoup navige ak amater nan mond lan.
KISA POU RETIRE NAN ATIK SA A:
- O'Neill, who helped invent the wetsuit, allowing surfers to ride the waves in cold water, was a legend of the surfing world and went on to champion marine environmental causes later in life.
- O'Neill later moved his family south to Santa Cruz, California, where he opened his second shop, and by the 1980s had become the world's biggest wetsuit designer and manufacturer, though initially his friends didn't have much faith in his groundbreaking invention.
- Wanting to surf for longer in the cold waters off the California coast, O'Neill began experimenting with a variety of materials, eventually inventing the first neoprene wetsuit, still worn by surfers to this day.
