{"id":1371,"date":"2016-10-05T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:15:06","slug":"mit-working-furry-wetsuits-help-keep-humans-warmer-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/mit-working-furry-wetsuits-help-keep-humans-warmer-water\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Is Working on Furry Wetsuits to Help Keep Humans Warmer Under Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice how furry coats help keep sea otters warm in the water?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/beaver-inspired-wetsuits-surfers-1005\">MIT researchers<\/a> have taken note and are working on developing furry wetsuits so-to-speak that would help keep humans, specifically divers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, moving away from traditional wetsuits and into the furry westsuit realm would actually give people more mobility under water.<\/p>\n<p>By carrying out numerous tests and simulations in regards to otter and beaver\u2019s fur coats, the researchers were able to concoct a formula that can calculate exactly how long and dense a layer of fur needs to be in order to effectively trap air based on the speed of a diver entering the water.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, future furry wetsuits could potentially consist of a thinner, more flexible material than neoprene foam, coated in millions of tiny artificial hairs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o4a6eSgKWhE\" width=\"680&quot;\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever notice how furry coats help keep sea otters warm in the water? Well, MIT researchers have taken note and are working on developing furry wetsuits so-to-speak that would help keep humans, specifically divers. In addition, moving away from traditional wetsuits and into the furry westsuit realm would actually give people more mobility under water. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[643,644],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}