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This query arose from current edits to the Wikipedia page "Frogman"
Frogman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It seems that breathing set swim diving (= scuba diving), started in Italy in the 1930's.
I always assumed that finned scuba divers from the beginning swam in the familiar way like the legs of the crawl stroke.
But this new Wikipedia editor claims that the first between-the-wars swimfin swimmers swam like frogs, or like the legs of the breast stroke ("frog kick"), "whence the name "uomini rana" (Italian) = "frogmen"", and that crawl-stroke-like fin swimming came later.
Please, who is right?
Frogman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It seems that breathing set swim diving (= scuba diving), started in Italy in the 1930's.
I always assumed that finned scuba divers from the beginning swam in the familiar way like the legs of the crawl stroke.
But this new Wikipedia editor claims that the first between-the-wars swimfin swimmers swam like frogs, or like the legs of the breast stroke ("frog kick"), "whence the name "uomini rana" (Italian) = "frogmen"", and that crawl-stroke-like fin swimming came later.
Please, who is right?