The wet suits came about when one of the golden age surfers was cold, so he took apart a tire, made a patten and his wife sewed it up.
He said “I was sick to death of being cold”.
I took a friend to a spot I swim at near Carmel recently. She actually belongs to one of those groups that swim in the Bay all the time, so I figured she was miss polar bear. She dove in the water and then jumped out, like she was in a Warner Brothers cartoon. I guess she was only in the cold water with a wet suit. It was cold, but I didn’t think it was that bad.