sciencediver1
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Having been working aboard a small 6 pak day dive boat which lends itself to tech divers I can't Help but notoce over the past two years the reassurgrence of a very old fin disign...The Scubpro Jet and clones. I see all manner of expensive kit being halued aboard to include CF200 dry suits, fancy wing bc's with big mamafolds rigged with top of the price sheet balanced pistons. Vert high end still and video cameras, $3200.00 dpv's an slings of all sizes, Grossly expensive rebreathers,,,CCR mind you not just the wantabe scr semei closed Dolphins. These folks look like they just came frome a NW Diver cover shoot. And yet there they are? Nasty old jet fins. I'll admit it. Peer pressure can sometimes evenmake me do things I wouldn't otherwisw. So down into the bowels of the old gear room I went. Creaking down deep into the darkened cool place where old dead divers spirits commune with long stagnent Al 80.s and thin necked steel 72's and stiff webbing, some showing long faded flourecent colors -whew bad news, But wait... no just an old pair of Mares Power Plana. Something scurries off into the black. Low and behold here they are. A vintAage pair of Scubapro Jet fins complete with rottrd straps. I have to wrestle them from the grasp of a very faded Imperial Bubble Suit (that suit was never dry). Headed back toward the light leaving this crypt of gear from days gone by, I hold iin my hand a piece of true diving nostalgia, memorabelia to be sure. These were the guy's I"d made my first very scarry dives to TItlow beach and perhaps Sunrise, when 60fsw seemed really downthere. But wall hangers they are not so I set about looking for straps. Mam...$100.00 seemed to br the deal then I located Spring Straps online. seems this firefighter makes and sells them for $37.00 plus tax and shipping $41.00 http://www.spring-straps.com I found these a great bargan and very well made. Easy to install and now my old jets look like new. My only problem is Why would I want to use such an old fin when My fantastic Twin Jets work great. Help me out, Why Jet fins?