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25/07/2005: "YONGALA .......sleeping giant black stingrays"

We had 40 meters of horizontal visibility when we first arrived at the wreck site. Dee Scarr was leading a team organised by La Mer Diving Safari of New York.

But the strong current associated with the very clear ocean water was too strong for most of the group. The sleeping stingray were at the other end of the wreck - not seen by any others.

Hostess Dianne Widdowson got there OK - note her giant swim fins/flippers. Later manufacturers would split giant fins down the middle to make them easier to use - but if this is to add extra power, then the physics of it all escapes me.

As a champion freediver commented recently: How come fish don't have split tails? (If it's supose to work as a power plus thing).

My guess is the split dive fins are a fashion.