June 2017

SANTA CRUZ - Jack O'Neill, a surfing giant who invented the wetsuit, is dead. O'Neill passed away on Friday morning surrounded by family and friends, said Dan Haifley, executive director of the non-profit environmental education…

PLEASURE POINT >> Santa Cruz wetsuit vanguard and surfing legend Jack O'Neill died Friday morning at his home. He was 94 years old. O'Neill was surrounded by family and friends at the time of his death, O'Neill Sea Odyssey said…

In 2009, Jack O'Neill welcomed aboard Radcliff Elementary student Esmael Torres as one of 50,000 students in the O'Neill Sea Odyssey marine science program. (Photo by Dan Coyro, Sentinel of Santa Cruz)Jack O'Neill on the deck of his…

Jack O'Neill was just looking for a way to warm up. Northern California waters were so freezing that winter surf sessions barely lasted an hour before ice headaches forced surfers like O'Neill to end their sessions, no matter how good the…