A story by gizmodo highlights this big wave surfing jacket design.

If you always wanted to be engulfed by a hundred tons of shark-infested water, you really need one of these Mairine surfing jackets. It really can save your life. If this thing were real.

The Mairine—University of New South Wales student Grant Humphreys’ finalist design for the Australian Design Awards—is a jacket for big wave surfing, the kind that requires the surfer to be towed to the wave’s location under extreme weather conditions. You know, when surfing stops to be really JackJohnsonish fun and starts being extremely fun. Until you die.

To avoid the Bodhi ending, the Mairine has a air canister in the back, which can quickly inflate the jacket in case of emergency. The inflation could be manual, or if the surfer falls unconscious, a manual spring-loaded timer will fire the canister and push the surfer up so the sharks can see him better.

Finisterre’s first ambassador, Carlos Burle, was crowned the first Big Wave World Tour Champion this weekend after a non-stop year of tackling the world biggest waves. The overall tour win marks the culmination of an outstanding season in the big wave world that was marked by quality swell that delivered across the big wave locales.

Tom Kay, Finisterre founder remarked, “We have seen Carlos at his best throughout the season. Every week it seems we receive a little message from far away shores of the latest session, consistently pushing the limits of what is imaginable, before jetting off on the promise of a fresh chart and a new swell.”

read the rest of the story at transworld.