Omer Stingray vs. Cressi professional LD

[Tenzing]

Hi,

I'm currently looking to buy my first longbladed fins and don't have the luxury of trying them on first. As I can understand I should go for a softer fin as I'm not diving that deep (yet). Feel pretty comfortable at 20 m with short fins.

Anyway, read somewhere that Cressi is good for narrow feet. My question is, how narrow? My feet look pretty normal (not wide) and I use EUR 41,5 on normal shoes.

What do you suggest Omer or Cressi? Whats the difference? I'm going on a snorkelling trip with my girlfriend soon and wont be pushing depth, which fins are best for that, surface swimming and down to 10 - 15 m.

Thanks

 

[Tenzing]

Really, no one?

 

[Sherrin]

The Omer Stingray fins have interchangeable blades. You can change the blades as you progress. The reason i like them, is that you can pull them apart and they will fit in a normal size bag - so they are good if you travel a lot.
Hope this helps.
Sherrin

 

[martin366]

Stingray, because of interchangeable blade option and very good footpockets

Wish you all the best!

 

[Simos]

I use the Cressi pro ld - they are decent fins and reasonably priced. I don't think you'll regret getting them - I got them mainly because I have narrow feet and I wanted a relatively soft plastic blade.

I tried some omers (not sure if stingrays) when I first started, they were ok but I did find the foot pocket a bit wide for my feet so I went for the cressi

 

[Simos]

Hi,

I'm currently looking to buy my first longbladed fins and don't have the luxury of trying them on first. As I can understand I should go for a softer fin as I'm not diving that deep (yet). Feel pretty comfortable at 20 m with short fins.

Anyway, read somewhere that Cressi is good for narrow feet. My question is, how narrow? My feet look pretty normal (not wide) and I use EUR 41,5 on normal shoes.

What do you suggest Omer or Cressi? Whats the difference? I'm going on a snorkelling trip with my girlfriend soon and wont be pushing depth, which fins are best for that, surface swimming and down to 10 - 15 m.

Thanks

For a snorkelling trip like you describe I would personally prefer to have a pair of shorter, rubber fins or similar but it's just because I don't like surface swims in the long fins and I also find that when doing shallow dives and looking at sea life, I end up sculling a bit with the fins

 

[Irishdiver]

If your snorkeling, around coral i presume, go for something like cressi frogs closed heel, pretty nice blades for shallow freediving and good for surface swimming which you'll be doing a lot of. Two reasons to avoid the long blades for snorkeling first you will rough them up pretty good in shallow water hitting them off coral, rocks etc which leads to the second point which is you will most likely damage some coral with long blades that your not used to. I use cressi gara 3000's myself for freediving and spearfishing but wouldn't be too keen to take them scuba diving or snorkeling

 

[Irishdiver]

Hi
Don't want to hijack this thread or go too far off topic. Maybe redirect to general Scuba forum and we'll take it from there