A new water sports product could be out on the market in the next few years — a life vest made especially for women, and it started right here in Lafayette. UL student Kate Brown designed the Comfort Flex Life Vest for her senior industrial design thesis project. »I grew up in Louisiana, » said Brown. « I grew up with water sports. Everyone I know fishes or swims, or does some kind of boating activity. So, I saw a real need to […]
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Ian Walsh has experienced situations while big wave surfing that most mortals could never dream of. On more occasions than he would care to recall, the zipper on Walsh’s protective life vest failed due to the force of a bad wipeout in big waves. Quite literally busting open from end-to-end, his life vest left him nearly defenseless and scrambling for survival. As Walsh explains, “I hit the water so hard on one wave that the life jacket I had on […]
