You owe “The Cheese” a debt of gratitude. By developing the wetsuit, he allowed you to surf around the calendar and around the globe. His little shop in San Francisco is now a multimillion-dollar ...

The tightknit Santa Cruz surf community used to congregate at Jack O’Neill’s cozy green house that hugs a cliff above the popular 38th Ave surf break at Pleasure Point. In 1972, I attended some of ...

Jack O'Neill, a Northern California surfing icon who invented the modern wetsuit, ultimately propelling the sport into a worldwide phenomenon, has died at 94. O'Neill died of natural causes Friday at ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Jack O’Neill, a Northern California surfing world icon who pioneered the wetsuit, has died. O’Neill’s died of natural causes Friday at his Santa Cruz, California home, his ...

Jack O’Neill, the founder of the first and most successful surfing wet-suit company in the world, has long had the financial means to live anywhere he wants. Yet the well-traveled inventor, ...

Jack O’Neill was just looking for a way to keep warm. The waters in Northern California were so frigid that winter surf sessions barely lasted an hour before ice cream headaches forced surfers such as ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The family of Jack O'Neill, O'Neill Wetsuits, and O'Neill Surf Shop invites everyone to join in a paddleout and day-long celebration of O'Neill's life and adventures at his ...

Jack O’Neill, the Northern California surfing world icon who pioneered the wetsuit and opened one of the world's first surf shops, has died at this home in Santa Cruz. He was 94. The bigger-than-life ...

The ONeill Planet Surf is a collection of perspectives from a cross section of some of the blue planets most remote unique as well as established wave frontiers Delivered by our surfers the first ...

SANTA CRUZ (CBS/AP) -- Jack O'Neill, a Northern California surfing world icon who pioneered the wetsuit, has died. O'Neill's died of natural causes Friday at his Santa Cruz home, his family said in a ...

Jack O'Neill, a Northern California surfing world icon who pioneered the wetsuit, has died. O'Neill's died of natural causes Friday at his Santa Cruz, California home, his family said in a statement.