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Archive for April 28th, 2009

Wetsuits - Perfect for the Cold

by Paul Garnett

A triathlon wetsuit, wakeboarding wetsuit, scuba diving wetsuit, or a surfing wetsuit is designed to keep your body warm. Have you ever wondered how wetsuits keep you warm in cold waters?

Wetsuits are designed to keep or maintain body heat when you are in the water. Water is said to drain your body heat twenty-five times more than air, thus exposure to cold waters without protection can lead to abnormal reduction of body temperature called hypothermia. When body temperature drops to very low levels, the different organs in the body could stop functioning.

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