Protection the primary function of the zone3 open water swimming gloves is to keep your hands insulated from the cold the bodys extremities such as hands and feet always feel the cold the most so these gloves are designed to allow swimming in cold water be more manageable perfectly designed after testing all of the other swimming gloves on the market zone3 found that they nearly all started ballooning with water during swimming and started to slip off the hands a design solution was found b