Fins for tech diving

[Josh the diver]

What fines do people use for tech diving?

 

[Marie13]

SM or doubles?

 

[grantctobin]

Wetsuit? Drysuit? SM? Rebreather? Travel?

Answer for 90% of people:
Doubles = Jet Fins or Turtles
SM/Reb/AL doubles in wetsuit = Deep6 Eddy or Dive Rite XT

 

[Josh the diver]

Wetsuit? Drysuit? SM? Rebreather? Travel?

Answer for 90% of people:
Doubles = Jet Fins or Turtles
SM/Reb/AL doubles in wetsuit = Deep6 Eddy or Dive Rite XT

sidemount and drysuit mostly. But I do plan on doing some in wet suit too.

 

[Josh the diver]

SM or doubles?

Why does sidemount or doubles make I difference? I get why wetsuit vs drysuit.

 

[Bigbella]

I have used Jet-fins, or jet-fin style fins for years -- whether they're models from Scubapro; from Poseidon; or DGX; whether I am in a drysuit; a wetsuit; whether I am using singles or doubles.

Friends and colleagues have attempted to sell me on Force Fins; split fins; ridiculous hinged monstrosities; models which allowed the blade to be stiffined with rods -- the whole of the dive industry's perennial drive to reinvent the wheel.

No.

There is something telling about a fin design, which has undergone so few changes, over the more than five decades, since their original introduction . . .

 

[Marie13]

Why does sidemount or doubles make I difference? I get why wetsuit vs drysuit.

Some folks need heavier fins in doubles to trim out properly, to balance things out.

 

[tursiops]

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[PfcAJ]

Jets 100% of the time. Singles doubles wetsuit drysuit rebreather scooter whatever.

Jets.

 

[tursiops]

Answer for 90% of people:
Doubles = Jet Fins or Turtles

I doubt it, from what I've seen. 30-40%, tops.