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No I'm happy to hear all about them, it makes it easier to know whom to observe. Though I normally stay away sometimes I'm up for a good laugh so I stay and watch from a distance taking notes on the stupidity...:-) -----Original Message----- From: "Kent O. Bonde"<kentbonde@ci*.mi*.fl*.us*> To: "'terry michael'"<OEA51@go*.co*>, "'Don Burke'"<donburke56@ne*.ne*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com Date: Wed Aug 08 07:41:05 PDT 2001 Subject: Re: Split fins >Does it really matter what the hell people think about split fins??? > >-----Original Message----- >From: terry michael [mailto:OEA51@go*.co*] >Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:16 AM >To: Don Burke; techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: Re: Re: Split fins > > >>> If the smaller fin puts less water in the wrong direction, less surface >>area >>> is needed. > >Don, give it up, you don't have any idea about what you are talking about. >Where do you come up with this stuff? > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: "Don Burke"<donburke56@ne*.ne*> >To: "terry michael"<OEA51@go*.co*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com >Date: Tue Aug 07 10:42:40 PDT 2001 >Subject: Re: Split fins > >>If I want shit from you, I'll floss your teeth. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: terry michael <OEA51@go*.co*> >>To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> >>Sent: 06 August, 2001 11:38 >>Subject: Split fins >> >> >>> Don, You may be lost the "Pampers" are over in the "baby" section along >>with the "propeller" fins and other "baby" toys. Maybe you should find >>yourself a good shower cap with a little fringe around the sides to >critique >>instead...:-) thanks >>> >>> ............... >>> >>> From: Joe Citelli <joe@po*.co*> >>> >>> > How could a fin with less surface area and rigidity possibly generate >>more >>> > thrust in the water than a fin with greater surface area and rigidity? >>> >>> If the smaller fin puts less water in the wrong direction, less surface >>area >>> is needed. >>> >>> If the flex in a fin causes more water to go straight back, the flex is a >>> good thing. >>> >>> An extension of your argument is the use of a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood on >>> each foot. Since that doesn't seem to work very well, perhaps the >>> hydrodynamic problem is a bit more involved than just surface area and >>> rigidity. >>> >>> > People like them because they are easy to kick with. >>> >>> Perhaps >>> >>> > But you travel less distance. >>> >>> That isn't how I interpret the test results I have seen. >>> >>> > Personally, I'd rather kick hard once to cover a given distance >>> > than kick easy three times. >>> >>> I doubt the ratio is that high. In any case, isn't the figure of merit >>gas >>> consumption for distance traveled? >>> >>> > The manufacturers simply had nothing to sell so they made this up. >>> >>> Perhaps, although the test results do look encouraging. >>> >>> > Funny how people that buy this kind of stuff typically keep going back >>to >>> the >>> > stuff in their garage that works. >>> >>> I'm watching all of this. They have my attention. Perhaps one day >>they'll >>> get my money. >>> >>> The entanglement issue needs to be addressed. I touch my line with a fin >>at >>> least once a dive and don't need anything else to wrap the line around. >>> >>> I saw a fin with vents down the center in one of the magazines and >perhaps >>> that is the wave of the future. >>> >>> The best performers seem to have the blade bent downward in a sort of >>> "ballerina set." It would not surprise me to find that much improvement >>> comes from that. >>> >>> Don Burke >>> Chesapeake, Virginia >>> >>> >>> ___________________________________________________ >>> GO.com Mail >>> Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >>> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >>> >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------- >>NetZero Platinum >>Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! >>http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 > > >___________________________________________________ >GO.com Mail >Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.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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