"Dad, you've got a wetsuit like that!" Watching television with children can sometimes be quite exciting, especially if you can still learn something as an adult. Hardly any format can do this better than the programme with the mouse. The other day, the whole family listened up: Reporter André goes waterskiing and wakeboarding, in a wetsuit of course. But how is such a wetsuit actually made?
André travels to Fürstenwalde to the "only soft neoprene factory in the whole of Europe" and watches worker Maggi produce fluffy neoprene mats from rubber chips, carbon black and propellant. The principle is similar to baking powder for baking cakes. The baked sheets are then covered with fabric, turning them into laminated neoprene. And André then explains how the wetsuit actually keeps you warm with a glass of water and some bubble wrap.
The article is not quite as fresh as it used to be, but it is certainly entertaining. Should we send mouse reporter André to the Cobra Factory?
