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My opinion of split fins?SeaHound:I am about to purchase a pair of Apollo Bio Extra Torque Fins but am discouraged by the rumour that splits dont work well in currents. Is it true? How is it possible for a fin to "not work well" in current if it is generating stronger propulsion ins still waters? Anyone care to shed light on this?
I've only used them once and that was during my equiment exchange for Divemaster. My buddy and I exchanged equiment before so that we would be switching into our regular gear rather than out of it. My buddy used split fins.
We did this in a pool with 0 current. I immedatly noticed 2 things:
1. I felt like I had no fins one (i.e. I might as well have had no fins on because I wasn't getting any "umpf" out of them.)
2. I felt like my feet were weightless.
I wound up pulling myself hand over hand to the other end of the pool to do the exchange and was never happier to get rid of a pair of fins in my life.
Disclaimer, I spent as most 2 minutes moving in split fins so they might take a little more getting used to, I was also overweighted by plan.