Non-Beach Shore Diving with Full Foot Fins

[MauiScubaSteve]

With regards to which fin style is recommended for divers who would do warm water shore dives, often full foot fins are written off as only suitable for shore diving with easy beach entries.

Depending on your personal pain threshold, some experienced divers love diving with full foot fins so much they use them even for shore diving with non-beach entries.

If you ever run into someone who claims their grandma walks barefoot under kiawe trees, over broken lava rock & coral, into a'a framed water littered with rock boring and spiny urchins, uphill both ways, say high to Cameron for me.

To see every cringe inducing photo in this set tiptoe to this link;

Full Foot 5-Graves - halemano's Photos- powered by SmugMug

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[shoredivr]

So I'm guessing that the expression on her face in #26 is just because you're holding her back due to the pics you're stopping to take

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

Well actually we were discussing the fact that the turtle we thought was dead at the beginning of the dive swam by us as we were coming back to shore. Covered with growths and with fishing line wrapped around a flipper, it actually looked not bad compared to when it was sleeping on shore.

 

[knowone]

Now thats diving. Nice nails. More posts from you.

 

[shoredivr]

Well actually we were discussing the fact that the turtle we thought was dead at the beginning of the dive swam by us as we were coming back to shore. Covered with growths and with fishing line wrapped around a flipper, it actually looked not bad compared to when it was sleeping on shore.

I can well imagine.....

I've only done 5 Graves from a boat, I'd love to do it from shore.

 

[orm]

Ow, ouch.. ouch.. ow... no, ouch.

I had to walk across blisteringly hot sand once in bare feet in the middle of the day. Not the most elegant of entries.

Yet again, I am a wuss. :ss:

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

Nice pics halemano!

And, an "Alert The Media Moment": A Haole without "Haole Feet"!!! (For you mainlanders, Haole feet = delicate feet, caused by wearing shoes).

When I was a teenager, I dove full foot, no booties. Often went to school barefoot (it was still allowed then).

I'm now older, my feet MUCH softer; Yes, I have the dreaded Haole feet... I use open heel fins, and thick soled booties....

I've sold out in middle age

Best wishes.

 

[David Wilson]

Depending on your personal pain threshold, some experienced divers love diving with full foot fins so much they use them even for shore diving with non-beach entries.

Because they're so comfortable, I wouldn't dream of using anything other than full-foot fins when I snorkel in the cold waters of the North Sea off the coast of the North East of England. However, I never wear mine barefoot. I purchased my full-foots one or more sizes bigger than my normal shoe size to accommodate my neoprene socks or booties.

Back in the 1960s, here in Europe where full-foot fins were invented, divers often owned two pairs of full-foots, one normally sized for pool use, the other one or more sizes bigger for open water use. Combining full-foot fins with insulating footwear isn't rocket science and it's still relatively common practice in the Far East, where full-foots remain popular with divers:

 

[orm]

They look pretty :snicker:

 

[David Wilson]

They look pretty :snicker:

Indeed they do. It's a pity that the manufacturers in the Far East don't export either the full-foot fins, or the colourful fin grips, or the pink booties to other parts of the world where they would also be appreciated.