pauldw
Contributor
Getting ready for my area's annual jack-o-lantern carving dive today, I pulled on one of my fins and the bungee heel strap snapped in two! That was sad. It was on my Mares Power Plana fin. This isn't one of those white ones that were cool in days of yore, the Power Plana fins have been made for awhile as some kind of heavy, black tech fin, but I use it because my dry suit boot fits in it, and because it's heavy and so helps with my dry suit diving to shift some weight down there. Anyway, I'm looking at what Mares is selling now, and there's some kind of crinkly looking strap with metal attachments. A hundred bucks. My innards clenched up so abruptly the seismographs nearby were going off! That isn't what's on there now, what's on there now is a bungee strap that looks like the generic strap I see Mares is selling for whatever fin you want to put it on. I'm looking for advice for someone familiar with Mares products. Do I have to/should I switch to the horrendously expensive Mares strap, or will that generic Mares strap work OK on these fins? Thanks.