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Alex, I wear a size 13 shoe. I dive wet with Scuba Pro jet fins and have no problem. My booties are 7mm with a relativly hard "boat shoe like" sole. I can't speak for the drysuit boot issue. It might be noteworthy to mention that I have the older Jet Fins, not the Lighting Jet Fins that SP now sells. I believe that SP changed the rubber compound (to a lighter compound) about 10 years ago (or so) and renamed the fin the Lighting Jet Fin. I mention this because I don't know if they changed the sizing when they changed the compound... Since the patent has expired, a number of companies make knock offs of this fin, and they (the copycat company) might make them in more sizes. Rodale's (ducking as I type this) did a fin review a while ago that listed a company that copied the design. While in no way am I a DIR expert, I would guess that as long as it was a good knock off, and the fin was negitivley buoyant, it would be considered DIR... but I'll let George/Trey, Pina, or someone who is more familiar with the DIR mindset comment on that... Chris Brown Suffolk, Virginia --- Alex Vasauskas <surlyc@al*.ne*> wrote: > I was looking to buy ScubaPro Jet Fins. Since I > have to buy them by mail, I > wrote to a dealer in order to determine what size I > should order to fit my > U.S. size 13 feet and a dry suit. This is the > response I got: > > "I would recommend the Turtle Fin if your feet are > size 13 and you are > wearing a drysuit. > The Jet fin only comes in 2 sizes and the XL is > barely big enough for a size > 12 in a drysuit. > The possible exception is if you are wearinga DUI > suit with those tiny > boots, but even then > a 13 is going to possibly not fit into an XL jet." > > What is your evaluation of Turtle Fins? Are Turtle > Fins DIR and can they be > fit with spring heel straps, or is there a better > alternative. > > Thank you. > Alex > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.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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