Holly Lohuis is an expedition team member, Marine Biologist and Education Associate for Ocean Futures Society. She is also a good friend and work associate of mine that I have know since 1995. We have shared many of dives together around the world and I recently had a chance to ask her a few questions about her experience with Force Fins and I would like to share them with the Scubaboard members and guests.
Holly was certified as a scuba diver in 1986 and she began using Force Fins in 2001 when we were filming the Sharks at Risk episode for PBS in Rangiroa, French Polynesia and ever since then she has never used another fin.
When I asked her why Force Fins her answer was simple “I love the look of Force Fins underwater and their function is superior to other fins I have used in the past”
Her favorite Model is the OPS OPS - Oscillating Propulsion System fin that is made especially for the Ocean Futures Society expedition team. “Usually you don’t find a good match of function and fashion, but with the OPS fin I have both.”
When I asked her about her most memorable dive in Force Fins her smile takes over her face with an excited answer of “I have many, but two come to mind!”
“Free diving with over 100 Galapagos Sharks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and diving with Carrie Vonderhaar in the Sea of Cortez with the Humboldt squid!”
I asked her to sum up her experience and she told me the same thing I have heard from other users. “I can swim all day and still have enough energy to keep going. It is a fin that will never tire you out no matter what you are diving and no matter what the conditions”
Jean-Michel Cousteau diving the OPS Force Fin
Holly was certified as a scuba diver in 1986 and she began using Force Fins in 2001 when we were filming the Sharks at Risk episode for PBS in Rangiroa, French Polynesia and ever since then she has never used another fin.
When I asked her why Force Fins her answer was simple “I love the look of Force Fins underwater and their function is superior to other fins I have used in the past”
Her favorite Model is the OPS OPS - Oscillating Propulsion System fin that is made especially for the Ocean Futures Society expedition team. “Usually you don’t find a good match of function and fashion, but with the OPS fin I have both.”
When I asked her about her most memorable dive in Force Fins her smile takes over her face with an excited answer of “I have many, but two come to mind!”
“Free diving with over 100 Galapagos Sharks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and diving with Carrie Vonderhaar in the Sea of Cortez with the Humboldt squid!”
I asked her to sum up her experience and she told me the same thing I have heard from other users. “I can swim all day and still have enough energy to keep going. It is a fin that will never tire you out no matter what you are diving and no matter what the conditions”
Jean-Michel Cousteau diving the OPS Force Fin
