Rocket Fin vs Turtle Fins?

[Freedive WI]

Global Manufacturing bought out IDI's entire stock and will be offering them through their company until supplies run out.

This brings me to wonder why dive companies are so frigin' stupid! Here was a fin that did twice the work, at half the cost, and it's no longer going to be made. You'd think someone else would pick up the molds and continue on instead of trying to reinvent some thing that works so well. Instead they offer us a new bunch of gimmicks every year, just so they have something new to sell at twice the cost!

Scuba isn't the only sport effected by this. It is near impossible to find a good Freediving snorkel these days. I want a real snorkel, not some crappy "dry" snorkel that's bigger than my spare-air bottle! I had to actually scour through the postings on E-bay to find a 20 year old snorkel to do what I wanted it to- breath easy without a bunch of junk on it to ruin my streamline in the water. The best freediving snorkel was the old Farallon contour snorkel, with the orange bite-tabs that you could mold to your mouth, but it hasn't been made in 20 years either! Would someone please bring back the good ol' snorkel for people who actually use them! :'(

Why can't they concentrate their efforts on something we could really use, like a scooter that runs for hours instead of minutes, and leave the stuff that works, like snorkels and fins, alone? ???

Sorry for my rant, but it seems like such a waste of resources to fix something that isn't broken.

jon