Roy McKinney
Contributor
It solves a problem that doesn't exist
One use I've thought of that could be good but haven't tried is for surf entries / exits. You can walk in with your fins clipped to your bc, get through the surf asap, and when you're deep enough to float, use the gloves to swim safely out of the surf zone. That way, you can comfortably put on your fins while in deeper water and not struggle in the surf. Same would go for rocky entries where it would be a big benefit being able to get out further from the shore into deeper water before putting your fins on and not worrying about the surf pushing you into rocks. Who knows, something I thought of but would have to try to see if it helped.
EXACTLY!
I had the opportunity to watch/study and video 20-30 divers, from novice to master, all in the water at the same time at Weeki Wachi springs state park in Weeki Wachi FL. For those of you not familiar with Weeki Wachi, It is a large, clear, natural spring with an underwater glass viewing area. It's sort of like watching fish swim in a fish bowl. My focus of course was on their hands.They ALL used their hands for a wide variety of manuevers. forward thrust, reverse (backing up), rotating and position control just to name a few. The most interesting thing I found was that every time someone used their hands, their fingers were in a relaxed OPEN position, not cupped for efficiency. This could, with little stretch of the imagination, imply that at one time in our evolution we may have had "natural finger webbing". By becoming land creatures the finger webbing dissapeared.
I still don't know how anyone who dives or snorkels can look at Darkfin Gloves and NOT GET IT!
The Devolution Continues!