people have gone before us with eb and brought this thought. you hear the phrase, standing on the shoulders of giants. people with eb aren t giants physically but mentally courage wise, they are giants. to do something to help them and those that have passed is just, you know, carry on the fight. next in, husband and wife team rob and steph, whose swim heralded a new day. as the team donned cold and damp wetsuits for their second leg, the english coast disappeared and the french coast appeared. tired, deprived of sleep, the end was in sight, but still almost six hours away. if the first swim was disorientating, the second was emotional. there was time to think. um. yeah, you think a lot. what do you think about? the obvious thing.
so, that could be part of a wetsuit? yeah. i mean, it seems pretty stiff. so, yeah, it s a bit stiff there but then you add a laminate on it like this and it starts to get a bit more of the properties that you need for a wetsuit. 0k. not quite able to make a fully functioning surf suit out of it yet, but it is a process. there are other options. this suit was made from natural rubber, harvested from sustainable plantations. but critics say this bio rubber isn t as durable or as cheap as oil based neoprene. tom says the industry needs to invest in order to change. some of the press that s coming up around the toxicity of neoprene is extreme, to say the least, horrendous. so, if you knew that, why wouldn t you change? the industry says it s already supporting the development of alternative wetsuits. the surf industry members association told us it s been: but with recycled wetsuits still a way off, there s one other key message of sustainability i can get