Lee Bell wrote (to Strike):
(snips)

> You're a perfect example of why I say the Jet Fins must be better than I
> think they are.  I've known you to be foolish (pleasantly so), but never to
> be a fool.  If you like Jet Fins, they must have some redeeming
> characteristics (other than eliminating the need for ankle weights).  I just
> havn't found those characteristics.

Not a fortnight ago a colleague and a superlative photographer wrote
to me, entirely out of the blue under the subject matter of "mea culpa":
(selectively quoted)

> After listening to your persuasive argument I bought some old Jet Fins and put spring
> heel straps on them thinking that I could always sell them when I didn't like them.
>
> How wrong I was. They are fantastic.  More powerful and more comfortable than
> my Mares Volos, and they SINK which is wonderful with my drysuit.

When my current fins break, but they're almost equally bulletproof,
that is what I will get and that is why I devised a way of mounting my
(original - Oceanic) spring heel straps without tampering with them in
any way.

Halcyon, probably amongst others, now makes a version of those
original straps which I love to little bits. If memory serves me
correctly Strike also uses them.

Cheers,

Christian