This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Businessman and surfer Jack O’Neill, a ...

Businessman and surfer Jack O’Neill, a pioneer in the creation of the wetsuit and founder of the surf company O’Neill, died Friday of natural causes at the age of 94, his company announced.

Businessman and surfer Jack O’Neill, a pioneer in the creation of the wetsuit and founder of the surf company O’Neill, died Friday of natural causes at the age of 94, his company announced.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Businessman and surfer Jack O’Neill, a ...

Jack O’Neill, the Santa Cruz entrepreneur who opened one of the world’s first surf shops and pioneered the neoprene wetsuit that helped popularize year-round cold-water surfing, has died. He was 94.

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 ...

O'Neill became the world's largest wetsuit producer by the 1980s SURFING icon Jack O’Neill, the man who invented the wetsuit, has died aged 94. O’Neill died peacefully of natural causes on Friday at ...

SANTA CRUZ — Jack O’Neill, a giant in the surfing world who invented the wetsuit, is dead. O’Neill died Friday morning surrounded by family and friends, said Dan Haifley, executive director of the ...