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I was so excited to get these. They’re a bit pricey but they’re made from recycled materials and a portion of my purchase goes to shark research SL it seems worth it to me. I like that the length is customizable, though I haven’t cut mine yet. The pockets are a great size and there’s one on each side. My only complain would be the waist band, I like how high it goes but it does roll down on me. Regardless I am excited to make future purchases.
I work on a dive boat as a dive master and LOVE these leggings! They give me the support I like and make getting into my wetsuit easy.
I love these v2 leggings - I'd purchased the first version of leggings in Tiger Shark and Mermaid Cammo, and they are good. But the latest version of these leggings is a little thicker, fits around the waist and hips better, and have pockets! As a petite woman, I also really appreciate the ability to easily hem these down by cutting straight across the ankles. For reference, I wear the size Strong, and I'm 5'1", with a 27-inch waist and 36-inch hips.
Love that these help conservation of sharks through the University of Miami Shark Research Lab. Absolutely great leggings, well designed, with pockets even. You can customize the length and the Nurse shark print is so cool. Love these!!!
This is probably my...9th?...pair of Waterlust leggings and they have yet to disappoint! These leggings feel (and look) like a second skin. I feel so comfortable in them and they move with me as I move. They're really flexible, but also suck you in in all the right places. Love the print and love that some of the proceeds go to such a good cause. Highly recommend!
I love Waterlust and everything this company supports. Thank you! However, I struggle with the sizing. For reference, I am a curvy girl. I am 5’3”, 155#, and 36D. I have an old pair of leggings pre-pocket in a medium that I love. After reading that new styles were running smaller, I ordered a L. The legs fit great and the length is fine. Unfortunately, I must be long in the torso and extra wide in the thighs. No matter how much I try to pull these up, they want to sit low on the hip and look as if they are cutting in the groin. I exchanged for an XL and was able to fix the later issue but these still want to sit low on my hips. I really wanted these to be my go to and I love the pattern and color. I even had my eye on buying another, but I am not sure if I will be bothered by the fit enough to say one is enough. I could not bring myself to knock any stars off - since after reading most reviews, the fit is spot on for everyone else.
Nurse sharks, Ginglymostoma cirratumknown, are known as the couch potato of the shark world. Up close, their skin appears as a stunning geometric mosaic of sand, copper and bronze tones. These diamond shaped structures are actually modified teeth, called dermal denticles. This tough exterior increases hydrodynamic efficiency and provides protection to sharks, though its shape and structure varies across species.
88% Repreve® RPET (recycled polyester made from post-consumer plastic bottles), 12% spandex
10% of profits from your purchase will go directly toward the Shark Research and Conservation (SRC) Program at the University of Miami,helping to fund important research focused on the ecology, movement and conservation of nurse sharks as well as other local shark species. In addition to research, the SRC program is actively aimed at student education and community outreach through extensive citizen science and internship programs.
Nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) are globally classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as “Data Deficient”, with an unknown population trend, and thus, more research on their population size, distribution and trends, ecology, and threats is needed. Though they can grow up to 14 feet in length, they are slow moving bottom-dwellers, inhabiting the warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans. Nurse sharks are particularly vulnerable to coastal fisheries and indirect coastal impacts from human activities, particularly in reef areas which constitute its main habitat.
Multiple research methods have shown that some species of sharks have declined in population by 90% or more during the last several decades in areas where they were formerly abundant. These declines are due to direct targeting in commercial fisheries, mostly for their fins and sometimes meat. Additionally, sharks are often caught unintentionally as bycatch in many other fisheries, caught and killed in some recreational fisheries (unlike catch and release), and may also be impacted by humans more indirectly through threats like habitat loss, pollution, and human-driven declines in the fish species sharks rely on for food.
Nurse shark skin viewed up close. The diamond shaped structures are actually modified teeth, called dermal denticles. This tough exterior increases hydrodynamic efficiency and provides protection to sharks, though its shape and structure varies across species. Nurse shark dermal denticles, for example, are designed less for speed and more for protection, making them much less sharp to the touch than other species.
A nurse shark is fitted with an ID tag during a scientific workup by the SRC team. Each ID tag has a unique number to identify the shark by. If that shark is recaptured, information such as length, body condition, and location can be compared to learn more about growth rates, home range and other characteristics of these species, as well as how they change over time.
Sharks have been in the ocean for more than 450 million years. Granted, they’ve evolved a bit since then, but they’ve survived five major extinction events! Help us to celebrate these amazing animals, support research to inform management of their populations, and use your gear as a conversation piece to educate others.
Learn more about some of the research conducted by the Shark Research and Conservation Program. This Waterlust video explains the findings of a paper published in the scientific journal of Diversity and Distributions entitled "Use of marine protected areas and exclusive economic zones in the subtropical western North Atlantic Ocean by large highly mobile sharks."
The study investigated the core home habitat use of bull, great hammerhead and tiger sharks tagged in waters off south Florida and the northern Bahamas to understand if these highly mobile shark species might benefit from spatial protection, such as marine protected areas (MPAs).
Click here for the link to the full paper.
I was so excited to get these. They’re a bit pricey but they’re made from recycled materials and a portion of my purchase goes to shark research SL it seems worth it to me. I like that the length is customizable, though I haven’t cut mine yet. The pockets are a great size and there’s one on each side. My only complain would be the waist band, I like how high it goes but it does roll down on me. Regardless I am excited to make future purchases.
I work on a dive boat as a dive master and LOVE these leggings! They give me the support I like and make getting into my wetsuit easy.
I love these v2 leggings - I'd purchased the first version of leggings in Tiger Shark and Mermaid Cammo, and they are good. But the latest version of these leggings is a little thicker, fits around the waist and hips better, and have pockets! As a petite woman, I also really appreciate the ability to easily hem these down by cutting straight across the ankles. For reference, I wear the size Strong, and I'm 5'1", with a 27-inch waist and 36-inch hips.
Love that these help conservation of sharks through the University of Miami Shark Research Lab. Absolutely great leggings, well designed, with pockets even. You can customize the length and the Nurse shark print is so cool. Love these!!!
This is probably my...9th?...pair of Waterlust leggings and they have yet to disappoint! These leggings feel (and look) like a second skin. I feel so comfortable in them and they move with me as I move. They're really flexible, but also suck you in in all the right places. Love the print and love that some of the proceeds go to such a good cause. Highly recommend!
I love Waterlust and everything this company supports. Thank you! However, I struggle with the sizing. For reference, I am a curvy girl. I am 5’3”, 155#, and 36D. I have an old pair of leggings pre-pocket in a medium that I love. After reading that new styles were running smaller, I ordered a L. The legs fit great and the length is fine. Unfortunately, I must be long in the torso and extra wide in the thighs. No matter how much I try to pull these up, they want to sit low on the hip and look as if they are cutting in the groin. I exchanged for an XL and was able to fix the later issue but these still want to sit low on my hips. I really wanted these to be my go to and I love the pattern and color. I even had my eye on buying another, but I am not sure if I will be bothered by the fit enough to say one is enough. I could not bring myself to knock any stars off - since after reading most reviews, the fit is spot on for everyone else.
![Model: Laura is our Director of Apparel at Waterlust. She is 5’10, 147 lbs and is wearing a size [M] legging and [XS/S] top](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0137/6210/1348/products/waterlust-nurse-shark-nirvana-leggings-28490342989860_5000x.jpg?v=1627986164)
