Shaped by our community, session after session. Our new Shearwater wetsuit design has been tried and tested by cold water surfers around the world, incorporating coountless hours of feedback to create our warmest, stretchiest and most technically advanced suit to date.
The Shearwater: Shaped By Every Session
22.10.26
3 min read
Written by Zak Rayment
Photography by James Bowden & Tom Bing
We have always taken pride in building the best product possible, carefully crafting gear that is truly fit-for-purpose and built to endure. Nowhere has this been more important than in our wetsuits. Way back in 2015, we ran our first wetsuit tester programme – sending our prototype cold-water wetsuits out into our community to gather feedback from the people we knew would test them best.
In redesigning our new Shearwater wetsuits, we knew we wanted to do it again.
Sending out 100 suits to our community, we gathered feedback from hours spent in the water, feeding it all into our redesign to create a wetsuit that has truly been shaped by every session...
Andy Jones finding grace amongst the chaos on Atlantic frontiers...
Katie McConnel staring down the line of a Pacific giant...
Mike Lay glides past Noah Lane in the lineup, somewhere out west...
.... Demonstrating speed, power, and flow.
Sandy Kerr navigates below the waterline on an unknown northern slab.
Gliding into place, timing is everything. Sally McGee sampling the fickle fruits of the north-east.