Beuchat Jetfin - full foot
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regulator bj
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Welcome to Scubaboard, There is a pair of Beuchat jets on the French Ebay right now you could be just lucky
Mike Lev
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I assume you mean the vent type like the Scuapro. The ones in France the Scubapro type is $78 U.S. dollars. I am sure they won't ship to the U.S.A. If they did you would pay at least $50 or more for shipping. I have an older pair pre Scuabapro. They are rare and very hard to find in the U.S.
regulator bj
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Pictures says a thousand words
Mike Lev
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Yes they do. I have the same ones. They made a few different styles of them. You have any of these?
regulator bj
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Voit equipment did not have an agent in the UK !960's dived on a supply of Cressi Rondines (Blue and Black) and the odd pair of Dunlop MOD Navy from surplus shops when available. 
Mike Lev
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Nice ! I have those Dunlops also. They are very rare over here. Are they rare in the UK also? They look alot like my black UDT Churchills. I think those are the the UK version of them. I have a book on Dunlop. It has some pics of British fogmen with dive gear. One is wearing those fins. The book is Dunlop in War and Peace by Sir Ronald Storrs 1946
David Wilson
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The Dunlop Sports Company manufactured fins with adjustable straps for their Aquafort range of underwater swimming equipment in the late 1950s:
The fins are described in one contemporary diving equipment catalogue as "double curved blade made of extremely flexible black rubber. Adjustable heel strap."
The full-foot Beuchat JetFin, of course, predated the Scubapro version, which only came in an open-heel design. Here is one example of a Beuchat JetFin:
Note the adjustable heel straps and the closed toe, which were also features of other fin models in Beuchat's range during the early 1960s, e.g. the Marseilles company's Parallèles fins:
To the best of my knowledge, there is only one full-foot fin model with adjustable heel straps still in production anywhere in the world:
This fin, which closely resembles Beuchat's JetFin in appearance except for its open toe, is manufactured in Turkey and marketed by the Free Sub diving equipment company there.
FREE-SUB Dal?? Elbiseleri ve Z?pk?nla Bal?k Av? Malzemeleri
The fins are described in one contemporary diving equipment catalogue as "double curved blade made of extremely flexible black rubber. Adjustable heel strap."
The full-foot Beuchat JetFin, of course, predated the Scubapro version, which only came in an open-heel design. Here is one example of a Beuchat JetFin:
Note the adjustable heel straps and the closed toe, which were also features of other fin models in Beuchat's range during the early 1960s, e.g. the Marseilles company's Parallèles fins:
To the best of my knowledge, there is only one full-foot fin model with adjustable heel straps still in production anywhere in the world:
This fin, which closely resembles Beuchat's JetFin in appearance except for its open toe, is manufactured in Turkey and marketed by the Free Sub diving equipment company there.
FREE-SUB Dal?? Elbiseleri ve Z?pk?nla Bal?k Av? Malzemeleri
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Mike Lev
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Thanks for the pics. On third fins down I have an early Beuchat brochure that shows those fins. I believe those were there first model. I have never seen a pair yet for sale. I have seen some like it but newer looking.
DaleC
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Are these the ones you mention
I just picked these two up the other day. The first is the USD "Aquatic" series made of that revolutionary new product called plastic (marketed as "Marvil plastic"). The second is either a knock off or a precursor made by Scepter out of Canada (don't know much about them). Same fish logo on the toe area though.
I just picked these two up the other day. The first is the USD "Aquatic" series made of that revolutionary new product called plastic (marketed as "Marvil plastic"). The second is either a knock off or a precursor made by Scepter out of Canada (don't know much about them). Same fish logo on the toe area though.
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