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New Gear Update
Aqualung
Hotshot Travel Fins
Big news for the traveling diver. There is finally a travel fin that is streamlined, light, compact and as powerful as any diver may need. Introducing Aqualungs brand new Hotshot travel fins. For those of you that are familiar with Aqualungs high end Slingshot power fins these should look familiar. They are basically a redesign and reduction of that idea. Which makes sense when you think about the power and performance you get out of that fin with minimum effort. I would make a fleet of fins with that overall design. From the rigid rails to the flexible cupping paddle, The mid foot hinge point, and of course the adjustable power bands. All the key features made their way to the new, smaller Hotshots. I got a chance to demo these fins on my last spearfishing adventure in the keys this past May and really put them through their paces. What I found was mostly good but also some weird.
First and foremost, these fins have nearly the same amount of power that the Slingshots have but in a smaller package. I did 10 dives over the week. From 0 current to easily a knot and a half. with these fins I could comfortably laugh in the face of that sissy Poseidon himself. But most amazingly they can do this in a fraction of the size and weight of the big guys. As a bootless fin they are quite comfortable but (yeah there is a but) the strap is oddly not adjustable. My foot was not quite big enough to fill the whole pocket so I got some wiggle. Not the end of the world but I'm a needy guy. So I figured I'd throw my boot on. At about 45 minutes in when my feet went numb enough for me to take the boots off under water and hand them to my buddy, sorry Jen, I realized that wasn't going to work either. So they can't play double duty and they can't do either boot or bootless perfectly. I felt a bit like goldilocks, only I'm not stealing from giant man eating beasts. For me personally I hate not being able to wear boots but they aren't really designed for boots as my rep said. The only other downfall I found with the fins is they scuff quickly. The material held up great it just scuffed. To me no biggie but for some this may be a turn off. I'm just warning you.
Overall for someone who likes big heavies when it comes to fin selection I couldn't have been happier with a small light fin that can keep up with the big heavies. I would call the fins a big win in a sea of small wimpy bootless fins. As soon as they fix that strap to allow a boot to fit in there I'll have a pair in my bag for sure. If you don't mind wearing a fin without a boot, you have no excuse to not have these as part of your warm water kit. really.
Alex (ECD Staff)
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