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Originally Posted by messias
Hello again,
first of all, thank you for your fast reply to my request.
I usually dive between 15 to 25mt when spearfishing or just training in my regular hunting areas.
Our waters are very "dirty", and we rarely have more than 10mt visibility. Lots of rock (therefore my fears about carbon and the "myth" arround them). I have been diving with Cressi fins for many, many years. Do you think i will need to make even more effort than i already do now? (Gara 3000).
I Weight 70Kg, with relatively weak legs, but i can keep the same stroke for a really long time.
Thank you,
Filipe Messias.
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Filipe
How much surface swiming is required? Fin choices are really personal these days, but the dive condicions you gave are a really good fit for the medium hybrid (special fins), but they come with a big price tag. I current have two pais of hybrid fins (one medium one hard), definitly avoid the hard, your body built is similar to mine and the hard is too hard, I use that hard fins just for vertical dives.
I've also try the C4/30 flaps, they are great fins, but I am not sure how resistant they would be for the rocky bottom, the C4 are very smooth for vertical dives but the medium hybrid is a little better for surface swiming, but still the C4 are great, but both would come with big price tags.
I have no input about the captain nemo, but I see a lot of people using them, and one advantage of it is the fact that you could use picasso foot pocket ( this last one in my opinion) is very good, again fits my kicking and my diving style, but the trick here will be finding
a good pair of fins that will not break your budget, but sometimes the more expensive option can became the cheapest one, since you only by them once (that often happens to me).
I am personally shopping for a pair to replace my medium hybrids (I've left them in Brazil after they were damage by the airline), I know I would be happy with another pair of hybrids for Alaska but at this point I just can't justify the cost, since they would be for Alaska and I would be using them 12 time per year !
Marwan started a very good thread about fins, there is a lot of input from many divers.
