Oneill

Oneill.com: Wetsuits and activewear for surfing, diving, waterskiing, wakeboarding, and windsurfing.

Jack O'Neill is a manufacturer of wetsuits, drysuits, sports clothing, accessories. Visit us for tips, movies and interviews.

Sometime around 1952, Jack opened the first Surf Shop in a garage across the Great Highway. He shaped some balsa surfboards and sold accessories like paraffin wax and a few vests he started gluing together from neoprene. When the vests started selling, Jack decided to go into the wetsuit business.

By 1980, Jack O'Neill's surf shop had morphed into a thriving international company, dominating the world's wetsuit market and one of the leaders in beach lifestyle sportswear all over the World. In 1985, having run Team O'Neill for years and effectively coordinated the company's operations in Europe and Japan, Pat got the CEO position, freeing Jack to surf, sail, and work at a variety of environmental projects. Besides a strong interest in saving the great white shark from extinction, Jack has also developed the O'Neill Sea Odyssey program - a free educational cruise aboard the Team O'Neill catamaran that introduces kids with the microbiology of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary, which begins at Jack O'Neill's doorstep.


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