Again, I'd say that the the shorter dynamic is still evidence that she does not hold back, at least not more than other freedivers do. It is always a battle of the mind to determine if you should come up now, or try for another KKG cycle, and sometimes we get it wrong. She breaks records through intense training, and like any of us, she can have a competition that does not go as well as others. As a competitor myself, I find it hard to comprehend anyone putting so much effort into training to just throw the game for no particular reason. For whatever reasons, 208m was what she could do that day. But, I think that is enough on that topic.
The bottom line is that baiyoke is right that good comparison dives are rare. There are just so many variables in how a fin functions, and getting someone who is equally proficient with both hyperfins and something like the Orca is also rare. The many who dive hyperfins have no experience with foils, and the few who use the Orca no longer use, or in some cases have barely ever used, hyperfins. The only remedy for this situation that I can think of is to make the Orca more available and get more divers using it so that there will be more comparisons available. That is the goal behind the Orca2. It is not a huge advancement in performance and technology over the Orca1. But, I can make it in higher volume so that it is not so rare that it is an enigma. Of course, I made incremental improvements where I could to make it a better product, but the basic technology is fairly similar with the significant exception of how it is manufactured. I'm hoping that as Orca2s ship out, there will be more information circulating on how it is working.
Of course, I want that those reports to be encouraging, but once the hardware ships out, the die is pretty much cast. My opportunities to affect the performance outcome of the Orca2 basically ends when the tape goes on the box.
