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[Freedive WI]

Force Fins suck for freediving!

Don't mean to be to hard on them because they work just as well as split fins for scuba diving, but they are next to worthless for freediving.

Every winter we have someone come with a pair to play underwater hockey and they find out very quickly have bad they are.

A cheap pair of snorkeling fins from any sporting goods store, doesn't even have to be a dive shop, will work better than force fins. Normal strap heel scuba fins will work better than Force Fins for freediving.

One of the biggest, and most expensive, mistakes I ever made was buying the Force Fins that were made for freediving- or that's what Bob Evans had me believe. > Thank God for E-bay. I got all of my money back and bought myself a nice pair of carbon fins, and a monofin, for the same price!

If you decide you actually like the sport, we can help you pick out a pair of proper long fins.

If your not cold you don't need a wetsuit. A proper freediving wetsuit will let you go deeper, below the thermocline, and stay in the water longer, I dive all winter, but is not mandatory when diving shallow in the summertime.

Some people argue about the difference between snorkeling and freediving. If you are getting down to 20' and can stay underwater for at least 30 seconds you are no longer a snorkeler. This is much easier than it sounds and you can cover a lot more ground than a scuba diver.

Jon