Dive Equipment - Oceanic Vortex V8 Fins
| Dive Equipment - Oceanic Vortex V8 Fins | |||
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| Oceanic Vortex V8 Fins | Oceanic | ||
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| Harbour Dive, Mornington | Tue, 03-Jan-2006 | $179.00 | |
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| - | 1 year |  Not in service |
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| My then partner had heard good things about split fins, though she hadn't tried them herself. She decided that's what she would get me, and thus in January 2006 a pair of yellow Oceanic Vortex V8 fins were purchased from Harbour Dive. Size L/XL At first I was happy with them. But I then again, I hadn't tried anything else. The yellow colour does make me easy to find. I had intended to buy a spare heel strap for these fins to take as a spare in my dive bag. Unfortunately, I just kept having problems with the straps on these fins. The straps would slip down over my heel. Sometimes this would result in the fin becoming loose, or even coming off. There were times when I'd finish a dive thinking everything was okay, only to find the heel strap had slipped down again. To try and prevent this, I was pulling the straps so tight at the start of a dive that I ended up breaking one of the pins. Finally, on a dive at South Channel Fort, I had the left fin come off at the beginning of the dive, which was retrieved. Then at the end of the same dive, the right fin came off and was swept away by the current. Scratch one pair of fins. |
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