Best full foot fins for current: Atomic SplitFin or Sea Wing Nova?

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You might want to try a set of Cressi Gara Modular Sprints. Relatively short, lightweight, very powerful, practically indestructible, with some practice they even take a frog-kick/backwards moves decently, and if you want to snorkel/freedive on the same trip, you have all the fins you need in one handy package with a minimum of gear. I believe they work best if you are not too heavy and fairly streamlined (I am about 6‘2“, 145 lbs and dive an 18 lbs Apeks bp/w, travel plate, 1-2lbs lead depending on 4E Thermocline or 5mm Proteus II in the Med and Tropical waters with steel tanks), otherwise I assume you might overload the fins. In that case, Mares Avanti Quattro might work (I have heard great things about SP Go Sport but haven‘t had a chance to check them out). You may have to try them - footpocket fit is highly individual. I have been diving the Gara Sprints for two years without socks and was very comfortable. For warm water, that‘s my favorite set-up currently.
 
You might want to try a set of Cressi Gara Modular Sprints. Relatively short, lightweight, very powerful, practically indestructible, with some practice they even take a frog-kick/backwards moves decently, and if you want to snorkel/freedive on the same trip, you have all the fins you need in one handy package with a minimum of gear. I believe they work best if you are not too heavy and fairly streamlined (I am about 6‘2“, 145 lbs and dive an 18 lbs Apeks bp/w, travel plate, 1-2lbs lead depending on 4E Thermocline or 5mm Proteus II in the Med and Tropical waters with steel tanks), otherwise I assume you might overload the fins. In that case, Mares Avanti Quattro might work (I have heard great things about SP Go Sport but haven‘t had a chance to check them out). You may have to try them - footpocket fit is highly individual. I have been diving the Gara Sprints for two years without socks and was very comfortable. For warm water, that‘s my favorite set-up currently.
I know that cressi impulse is buoyancy neutral underwater. How about sprint, same neutral?
 
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