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Nick, the reason for the fin rec is as follows: the Scuba Pro jet Extra Large ( and it must be the extra large, not the large) has a bigger blade than the rest, and the biggest foot pocket. If that won't fit, I would ask DUI to change the boots. JJ is an 11 or 12 foot, BTW. The problem is that when you change fins, you lose the other advantages of the jet. It is heavy, so holds the feet down well against the dry suit with no effort, allowing you to add gas to the feet for different trim needs. The fin is a hard rubber that resists breaking or tearing, and seems to last indefinitely, and does not change its pliabilty like plastic does. It is compact enough and well enough controled as to allow all types of kicks in confined as well as open areas without stirring the silt. It provides enough thrust to pick up 45 pounds of weight and swim up with it. You can swim for hours in these fins without chaffing. Of course , any other fin that does this would be fine, but I do not know of any. BTW, this fin was first made in a full foot version by Beuchat, and licensed to all of the others, like US Divers. There must have ben ten versions of it. It seems that only Scuba Pro had the Extra Large as a totally different fin, and are still the only ones that have this part figured out. When diving the big gear, you need the big jet. I would do whatever it takes to make this fin work , if it were me. For my own account, I have different set of jets with different length spring straps for dry and wet. They really need only to cover the last few inches of your feet to work properly. Nick Radov wrote: > > Based on the recommendations in the DIR tapes I bought a set of Scubapro jet > fins (XL size). Those worked great while I was still using a wet suit. Now I > just recently started using a custom DUI TLS350 drysuit and I'm having trouble > getting the fins to fit. My drysuit has the standard booties, not rock boots. It > seems like the rubber soles on the bottom are just a little too wide to fit into > the fin pockets. I can force them in part of the way but they aren't really > secure. Is there some special trick to this, or are my feet (size 11 1/2) just > too big? > > I'm considering slicing open the sides of the fin pockets to make them larger > and then attaching some extra straps to hold them together, but that would > probably end up as a huge mess. > > ---- > Nick Radov <nradov@ax*.co*> > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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