If you are considering a military special program involving rescue swimming or diving, you will eventually be tasked with swimming in fins. These are typically large scuba fins that take time to get ...

Many questions received often depend on the goals of the person asking the question. Just starting a fitness program with running or swimming and wondering what kind of gear is needed or preferred is ...

The Little Mermaid famously sang "flipping your fins, you don't get too far." Apparently, she's never seen Merle Liivand swim. Liivand, also known as "Eco Mermaid," broke a Guinness World Record in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Fun Fins swim program plans to teach more than 700 kids how to swim during the summer. The new program, announced on Monday, plans to start teaching children in rural areas ...

Little Fins Swim School is where safety begins and fins grow. There are two locations in Colorado Springs, one located at ...

In the sports performance gear world they call this biomimicry. Speedo used the technique—designing gear based off nature—for its brand-new Nemesis Fin. The nature of choice? The pectoral fin of the ...

FINIS, Inc., a world leader in technical swimming development, is proud to announce the release of the Edge fins, a comfortable high-velocity swim fin. The team set out to make the world’s fastest and ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia High School Assn. has approved a 14-year-old’s use of a prosthetic swim fin for competitive use. The device had been banned from a league after complaints that it helped him swim ...

If you've ever seen a humpback whale's fins, you might have noticed that they have knobby bits along the front edge. These are known as tubercles, and they cause the water to flow over the fins in ...

The sensory system in fish fins evolves in parallel to fin shape and mechanics, and is specifically tuned to work with the fish's swimming behavior, according to new research. The researchers found ...