Need help with Extra Wide Fins

[floater1]

I will be traveling to Bonaire next month and I need to buy some new fins. I am an avid snorkeler with very wide feet. I wear a size 12/EEEE shoe. I searched the forum but the only relevant post was from 2011. I would prefer a full foot fin but I know this might not be possible. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. (yes I still need fins, even with these feet)

 

[tbone1004]

you're not going to find full foot fins, i have a 14EEE and it's all but impossible. Your best bet is to use neoprene socks and standard fins. Dive Rite XT's should work for you in their XL with socks.

 

[David Wilson]

A year ago I posted a thread entitled "Extreme sizing: simple rubber snorkelling fins for people with tiny or huge feet", based on some research I had done on the availability of full-foot fin sizing. I use traditional full-foot rubber snorkelling fins when I snorkel in the North Sea off the North East coast of England. I included in my posting some examples of commercial lines available in extreme sizes. You can find it at http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sn...r-snorkelling-fins-people-tiny-huge-feet.html

It's a shame that today's fin manufacturers don't follow the recommendations of German Standard DIN 8786 of October 1980 that all fins, whether open- or closed-heel, should be marked with the appropriate Foot Length and Foot breadth in centimetres. It would make online purchasing - and life in general - so much easier if we knew the exact internal dimensions of any full-foot fins we were considering buying. Just providing a range of sizes, e.g. 13-15, is simply not good enough in this day and age.