Jack O'Neill wazaka 94 wamwalira kunyumba kwawo ku California Loweruka atazunguliridwa ndi banja lake.
O'Neill, yemwe adathandizira kupanga wetsuit, kulola oyendetsa mafunde kukwera mafunde m'madzi ozizira, inali nthano yapadziko lonse lapansi pamasewera osambira ndipo adapitiliza kulimbikitsa zachilengedwe zam'madzi pambuyo pake.
Mnyamata wazaka 94 adapanga imodzi mwazinthu zodziwika bwino za mafunde padziko lapansi atatsegula shopu yake yoyamba yamafunde ku San Francisco mu 1959.
Adayamba kuvala chigamba chake cham'maso atataya diso pa ngozi yapamadzi pomwe adakwera mafunde m'ma 1970s.
Pambuyo pake O'Neill anasamutsa banja lake kum'mwera kupita ku Santa Cruz, California, komwe anatsegula shopu yake yachiwiri, ndipo pofika zaka za m'ma 1980 anali atakhala wopanga komanso wopanga zovala zapamwamba kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi, ngakhale kuti poyamba anzake sankakhulupirira kwambiri zomwe anatulukira.
“Anzanga onse anandiuza kuti, 'O'Neill, ugulitsa kwa mabwenzi asanu pamphepete mwa nyanja ndiyeno udzakhala wopanda ntchito,'” anatero, malinga ndi banja lake.
Pofuna kusefukira kwa nthawi yayitali m'madzi ozizira a ku gombe la California, O'Neill anayamba kuyesa zipangizo zosiyanasiyana, kenako anapanga neoprene wetsuit yoyamba, yomwe imavalidwabe ndi osambira mpaka lero.
Pambuyo pake m'moyo wake, adayamba kuyang'ana kwambiri zomwe zimayambitsa zachilengedwe zam'madzi, ndikukhazikitsa O'Neill Sea Odyssey mu 1996, chinthu chomwe amachiwona ngati chodzikuza kwambiri.
Pulogalamuyi mpaka pano yalola ana pafupifupi 100,000 kuyenda pa catamaran yake kupita ku Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, kuti akaphunzire zachitetezo cha panyanja.
“Nyanja ndi yamoyo ndipo tiyenera kuisamalira,” wochita mafunde wodziwika bwino akugwidwa mawu akutero. "Sindikukayikira m'maganizo mwanga kuti O'Neill Sea Odyssey ndiye chinthu chabwino kwambiri chomwe ndidachitapo."
Zikondwerero zakhala zikuchulukirachulukira pama media ochezera kuchokera kumagulu osambira komanso okonda padziko lonse lapansi.
ZOMWE MUNGACHITE PA NKHANIYI:
- O'Neill, who helped invent the wetsuit, allowing surfers to ride the waves in cold water, was a legend of the surfing world and went on to champion marine environmental causes later in life.
- O'Neill later moved his family south to Santa Cruz, California, where he opened his second shop, and by the 1980s had become the world's biggest wetsuit designer and manufacturer, though initially his friends didn't have much faith in his groundbreaking invention.
- Wanting to surf for longer in the cold waters off the California coast, O'Neill began experimenting with a variety of materials, eventually inventing the first neoprene wetsuit, still worn by surfers to this day.
