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Reading a stretch figure honestly
Limestone neoprene has a denser cell wall than its petrochemical equivalent. In practice that means less water taken on, less weight carried, and a suit that stays closer…
Limestone neoprene has a denser cell wall than its petrochemical equivalent. In practice that means less water taken on, less weight carried, and a suit that stays closer to the temperature it started at.
A suit that lasts is a suit that gets repaired. We would rather send you a patch and an hour of instruction than a replacement, and the ownership terms are written to make that the path of least resistance.
The honest answer is that we do not know yet. We have three winters of data and a sample size in the low hundreds, which is enough to be confident about failure modes and not enough to be confident about anything else.
In practice
There is a version of this decision that would have been cheaper, faster and entirely defensible. We did not take it, and the reasoning is worth setting down properly rather than leaving it to a product page.
We cut to eighteen points because seventeen was not enough and nineteen changed nothing we could detect. That is the whole justification. There is no deeper principle at work.
Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better.
Sir Frederick Henry Royce
The material behaves differently at the third hour than it does at the first. Any claim that ignores that is describing a laboratory rather than an ocean, and we have been on the wrong side of that distinction before.
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