It’s funny, when I started diving Jet fins were on their way out. Nobody used them around here except for a handful of commercial urchin divers and maybe some old timers. They sold me on Mares Quattros.
Then GUE comes along around 1999 (here) and reintroduced the Jet fin as the best option for all these trick new fin maneuvering styles like modified frog, heli turns, backing up, etc. None of those styles were ever used or known about (at least on the west coast) prior to the arrival of GUE/DIR. Then GUE went from LA to Monterey and then to Seattle doing demos and by passing Northern California.
Along with the reintroduction of the Jet fin came a slew of copycat companies all making some form of a vented fin due to the surge in popularity of the GUE style of diving and use of short high side wall vented Jet style fins.
Scubapro was set to decommission the Jet fin many times over the last 25 years (except for military sales) but they couldn’t due to the resurgence in popularity.
You can say Thank You to GUE for keeping that style of fin alive due to their compliant gear mandates.
So now you know.
I’ve used Jets since 2000 but now am going try a pair of Go’s from
@lexvil and see how those are.
I think Jets are the fin a lot of people love to hate but just can’t seem to let go of. Just when you think you’ve found something else a problem shows up and it’s right back to Jets. Damn them!!
