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Our leggings are designed to keep up with all your adventures in and out of the water! Durable enough for the dive boat, soft and supple enough for the hammock. Stylish sun protection for the win!
With a colorful exoskeleton that features startling shades of green, blue, magenta, red, and purple, the peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) is a badass marine crustacean known for its unique, powerful strike and incredible eyesight.
88% Repreve® RPET (recycled polyester made from post-consumer plastic bottles), 12% spandex
5% of sales will be donated to Coral Watch, a not-for-profit citizen science program based at The University of Queensland working with volunteers worldwide to increase understanding of coral reefs, coral bleaching, and climate change.
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The peacock mantis shrimp is a strikingly colorful and highly predatory marine crustacean found in the Indo-Pacific region. Its body is typically about 10 cm (4 inches) long and it has club-like appendages that it uses to smash and kill prey. These smashing appendages have the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, with an acceleration faster than a .22 caliber bullet.
In addition to its powerful smashers, the peacock mantis shrimp has impressive visual abilities, with 12 color receptors (compared to humans' 3) and the ability to perceive polarized light. Color and polarized light signals are thought to play a big part in mantis shrimp behavior especially communication with other mantis shrimp.
Photo by Prof. Justin Marshall, Coral Watch
The peacock mantis shrimp is named for its vibrant coloring, which can include startling shades of green, blue, and orange. It lives in burrows in coral reefs and feeds on a variety of prey, including crabs, mollusks, and small fish. Unfortunately, the corals they call home are losing their vibrant color due to increasing bleaching events.
CoralWatch is a not-for-profit citizen science program based at The University of Queensland working with volunteers worldwide to increase understanding of coral reefs, coral bleaching, and climate change.
CoralWatch developed the Coral Health Chart in 2002. The chart standardizes changes in coral colors and provides a simple way for people to quantify coral health and contribute to the CoralWatch global database. The Coral Health Chart is used by dive centers, schools, conservation groups, tourists, and scientists. To get involved simply download a Do-it-Yourself kit from their website, request a Coral Health Chart and you are ready to start monitoring. You can even help save the reef and the home of the mantis shrimp from home.
“Waterlust and CoralWatch have teamed up to help preserve coral reefs and their colorful inhabitants for future generations to see. Mantis shrimps have been watching over the reef for millions of years. By supporting our cause, by wearing the fabulous Mantis Moxie water-garb Waterlust provides, and by learning more about the reef through the CoralWatch citizen science program, you can help watch over the reef too.”
Prof. Justin Marshall
Coral Watch
Love these tights so much I got them in several different patterns. They're incredible sturdy, I got my first couple pairs six years ago and they're still going strong. Love to wear them running, one leg pocket fits my phone (in its outdoor case!), the other randoms bits and bobs like car keys, energy gels etc. The waistband is great. As for the sizing, they run a tad small, I wear size M and am 5'6. I keep recommending them to everyone to the point I'm asked whether I'm sponsored (I wish haha), they're that good.
Gorgeous colors and I literally laughed out loud when I saw the inner waist band. 👀
I’m 5’6” 125-130lbs and wear the size small. They are long on me but I prefer to leave them the original length so I can pull them over my ankles and heels to help get into wetsuits more quickly.
I really love the placement/usage of the pattern onto the leggings as it feels more slimming to have the darker color on the outer legs.
This is Waterlust's most beautiful pattern, in my opinion. The attention to detail is really impressive and accurate. The "hidden" eyes on the inner waistband is fantastic.
Length is super. I'm 6'1 with a 37 inch inseam and the stretchy fabric reaches my ankles.
I love, love, love these leggings..
I find the fabric for this pattern a little heavier than other leggings I've built but these were so fantastically patterned that I actually went to a party dressed as a shrimp! I couldn't help myself, they needed to be seen;-)
These colorful leggings always get comments - they are beautiful! And that leads to conversations about the power and speed of the mantis shrimp which leads to discussions about conservation....
love the clever placement of mantis shrimp eyes!
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