Fred
Calhoun
Captain of the "Easy Diver"
Cape Ann, Massachusetts
PDIC
Instructor Trainer
Proprietor of the New England
Scuba Instructor School
Founder and Producer of the
"Most Experienced" Diving Show, the Boston Diving Show and Underwater
Film Festival,
45 years running
"In over 40 years of diving I've seen every "new" scuba
invention that's come along. Although called "new" or "hot",
most were, in fact, simply reinventing the wheel. Only three are truly
worthy of being called improvements to the sport of diving.
"First was the single hose regulator -- it's sturdy and simple. Second
was the inflatable scuba harness -- it has made diving easier to learn
and easier to do. Third is Bob Evans' Force Fin. It took only three dives
using Force Fins for me to unlearn the 35 years of bad diving habits I'd
developed.
Force Fins are comfortable, do not cause toe cramps, are cupped in the right direction, and are without useless vent-holes! In the Force Fin design, the fulcrum is at the ankle and the cantilevered beam of the fin is supported at the heel. Ankles and heels are better at fin swimming than are toes and arches.
The physics-of-structures
lesson aside -- Force Fins are simply the best designed fins I have ever
used in all my years of diving."
Favorite quote ...
"All this stuff about fins being "efficient" and working like "airplane wings". If your fins could generate lift, you could water-ski on them..."
Captain Fred Calhoun is a member of Bob Evans' Force Fin Test Team.
He is trusted by Bob Evans to give straight forward and honest evaluations of
products based upon his sound experience and expertise, and is
currently testing the Fab Force SD1's.
If
Bob Evans trusts his opinions, you certainly can.
© Bob Evans Designs, Inc., 2001
All Rights Reserved.
