Since I got Jet Fins I really struggle to understand why anyone would dive with anything else, whether splits or flimsy paddles.
Their precision and manoeuvrability is amazing.
They're superb in current.
The work great with all styles of finning.
They're easy to get on/off.
They're cheap.
I admit they are a little heavy and can give you cramp if you over work them (because they generate so much thrust/acceleration) but there's rarely any need to.
Probably my best purchase of all time and I could not imagine going back to either splits or flimsy paddles. I defy anyone to try them out on a couple of dives and then go back to what they were using before (unless what they were using before at Jet fin wannabes
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J
John, strangely enough, I feel just as stongly as you do about my fin selection, but my 'vote' is completely opposite from yours, namely I'm 100% sold on my Apollo Bio 'splits'.....have been diving them for years, and my 'backyard' training/playground is here in the Texas 'Flower Gardens', which is considered pretty advanced diving, with high seas and screaming currents not uncommon, and most liveaboards, when they ask about dive experience, and I tell them the 'Flower Gardens' , they say 'Oh, ...OK!' knowing I'll be the last person they need to worry about on their trip.
There's nothing more fun than trying to reboard a 100 tons of boat yo-yo-ing up and down so bad that that an 8' boat ladder is completely exiting the water, as in the bottom rung is out of the water one instant, and the next instant the entire stern is thundering down trying to turn me into instant ketchup! .....all the while the boat is swinging wildly around the mooring as an added bonus!
.....I'd trust my life to my Apollos any day......and actually have done so many a time! Also, have dove the assorted WWI and WWII wrecks/subs off the coast of North Carolina......10 days on Nautilus Explorer/Socorro Islands....all of which are considered 'big boy' diving...all in my Apollos.
...and there is a DM here on the board (DiveTheGalapagos is her ID here on the board) and she uses the Apollos, and I should think someone who dives Galapagos day in and day out probably knows a thing or two about diving in severe conditions/currents.
Just a little more 'FYI', Apollo makes an XT version which is substantially more rigid than the standard versions.....I've got (3) pairs of the 'standard' version and (1) pair of the XT version, and the XT is very noticably more rigid, so if you're into a rigid feel the XT would feel right at home.
Also, I can't even conceive of diving fins without the SS springstraps, they are a MANDATORY/NON-NEGIOTABLE item in my book.
Karl
