FINA says Dubai Charter doesn't apply to Masters

Your assumption is that the makers will stop making the suits that aren't approved by FINA, but I don't think that's absolutely guaranteed especially if those suits are still allowed for masters. Take a company like blueseventy that has been in the wetsuit business. Their bread and butter is making neoprene suits and that was their innovation in the pool suit realm. If FINA rules that suits cannot contain any impermeable material will they even choose to remain in the market? Maybe they'll see masters as a continued market for the Nero and will focus their efforts to that end. Your right, it is an assumption. I am trying to put forth a possible suggestion/ compermise for masters swimming that may eventually get usms to come into agreement with FINA, will allowing suits to be used that were previously ok'd until they aren't fit to be used. This way, we don't have to go out to purchase new suits immediately and we can get our value out of the suits we have already purchased.

Your assumption is that the makers will stop making the suits that aren't approved by FINA, but I don't think that's absolutely guaranteed especially if those suits are still allowed for masters. Take a company like blueseventy that has been in the wetsuit business. Their bread and butter is making neoprene suits and that was their innovation in the pool suit realm. If FINA rules that suits cannot contain any impermeable material will they even choose to remain in the market? Maybe they'll see masters as a continued market for the Nero and will focus their efforts to that end. Your right, it is an assumption. I am trying to put forth a possible suggestion/ compermise for masters swimming that may eventually get usms to come into agreement with FINA, will allowing suits to be used that were previously ok'd until they aren't fit to be used. This way, we don't have to go out to purchase new suits immediately and we can get our value out of the suits we have already purchased.