• @lgsp
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    11 days ago

    Super cool, bu are they faster/more efficent than a good pair of diving fins?

    • @nailingjello@lemmy.zip
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      3712 days ago

      They don’t discuss specific speeds, but this is from the last paragraph:

      This jigger, according to the manufacturers, makes you handily quicker than an equivalent swimmer with fins on.

      • @fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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        1312 days ago

        What’s “handily quicker”? A lot quicker? A good phrase for selling a novelty product?

        I have to wonder how the Seabike, as shown exclusively in a swimming pool rather than any of the many seas on the planet, actually performs.

          • @BluesF@lemmy.world
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            112 days ago

            Yknow, I don’t think anyone’s ever made a bike powered version of those insane £200 electronic masturbators there are memes about these days… Eco wank anyone?

      • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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        411 days ago

        I’m very skeptical about that. It’s an expensive augmented swimming device that says it’s faster than fins but doesn’t prove it with stats or even just a side-by-side video…?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1412 days ago

      Why would I want this as opposed to an electric one that I hold in my hands, that can zoop me across the ocean without consuming extra oxygen from physical exertion?