Best Travel Fin - Scuba Pro Go VS Aqua Lung Storm

a little hot team what's happening today

we're gonna compare two options for a

travel friendly fin the Aqualung storm

and the scubapro go welcome to the

Octagon

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first and foremost we'd like to thank

you for stopping by to watch our video

our goal is to give you the most

information possible so that you can go

out and make an informed decision should

you choose to buy one of these fins

secondly we'd like to thank some of the

experts some of the other celebrities in

the scuba world for doing their reviews

of these fins first we watched their

videos and learned a lot and

incorporated that into ours well we're

going to point out some things that

maybe they didn't point out we'd like to

reattach again we'd like to thank them

for taking the time to make those and

we'll be sure and link their videos in

the description so please go and check

them out as well so getting into it

both of these fins are going to be

constructed out of single material which

is mon preen now mod preen is a specific

brands version of a TP II a

thermoplastic elastomer and that is just

basically a material a resin that has

the look feel and ruggedness of rubbers

so these are going to be very durable

they're gonna last you a long time as

long as you take care of them with the

added benefit of being able to be

injection molded so that's where we get

a lot of the details and a lot of the

technological advancements in fin design

so it's a win win best of all worlds

type of situation they're both open heel

constructed and barefoot designed to be

worn as a barefoot fin that you can wear

thin the APRI knock if you choose but

both of these are designed to be worn

without booties so we'll start from the

heel and work our way forward the heels

both are

bungee straps now whenever you're

comparing the two the scubapro

is an actual bungee whereas the Aqualung

is a stiff rubber the Aqualung is going

to be a little bit

Meteor to pull on so as these are

intended to be easy on Easy Off it it's

a little

easier to pull that however the

stiffness might last you a little bit

longer in the rubber cord the actual

loops that you put your fingers through

Aqualung this is about two fingers wide

whereas the scubapro version is a

triangle in it you can only fit one

finger in there comfortably moving into

the hill pocket you'll notice that I'm

able to articulate the heel strap up

whereas on the storm and on the scubapro

go I can only shift it up this is this

is directly mounted onto the fin so it

doesn't swivel this was probably going

to be a little bit more comfortable I

actually own a pair of these they're

very comfortable to swim in so this is

an added benefit there you'll notice

whenever looking into these that the

scuba Pro is going to be a slick design

whereas Aqualung has incorporated a

honeycomb design into theirs to give you

a little bit of added traction on your

foot so that it doesn't slip around our

first shout out is going to go to James

over divers Freddie who did an excellent

review of the Aqualung storm and he had

an opportunity to talk to another diver

that was using the scuba proko and they

mentioned that the slick bottom on the

go was a negative aspect of it so while

that's only one person's opinion we'd

like to thank James for his review of

that these fins and we appreciate him

taking the time to do that moving up

into the foot pocket still Mon preen

gonna be a little bit thinner up here

for added comfort the Aqualung storm is

going to be a folded edge whereas the

scuba pro is going to be tapered not a

whole lot of difference they're channels

on both fins start at the foot pocket

extend the length of the blade by design

the aqualungs channels or ridges or

power bars are going to be pointed the

scuba pros are going to be rounded a

little bit thicker however to the touch

neither of them give more than the other

so they're both very rigid and very

solid at the end of the foot pocket it's

open toe the difference being the

Aqualung has a sizing color tab there

and the scuba progo has a tri punch out

now the tribe punch out is dual purpose

for increasing water through the dead

zone

to increase efficiency but also being

able to put a name plate on there at the

time of this video there's only two

colors of the gofyn white and black so

if there are multiple black fins the

added benefit of having a nametag there

would be a welcome addition aqualungs

however if two people have the same

color fin but different sizes different

sizes have different colors so you'd be

able to tell them apart looking closely

at the channels as we move further

Aqualung has incorporated multiple

channels into theirs

whereas scubapro only has the one major

stiff bars on the outside so you're

going to get a little bit better kick

efficiency on the storm as the water is

propelled towards the tip moving to the

punch out you'll see this is courtesy at

Alex Pierce scuba over on his channel he

was doing some some reviews of some fins

and talked about scubapro engineers who

had noticed that a water board Tex was

created at the tip of a fin now whether

or not that's true who knows but they

included the punch out to get rid of the

vortex thereby increasing kick

efficiency so thank you mister Alex

Pearce for that tidbit of knowledge

please go and check out his video there

they're always great to watch so both

come with a punch out even if there's no

vortex it's an extra place to hang your

fins for storage or for travel looking

at the tip of the pin this storm is

going to have the modified fishtail

whereas scubapro is going to be a more

traditional fin the modified fishtail

our third shout out to to mr. mark over

at simply scuba articulated that that

the modified fishtail helps decrease

tracking so tracking is when your fin is

going to wave as it goes through the

water the modified fishtail helps push

that down

anytime you go and look at the scuba lab

reports at scuba dive magazine you're

gonna see that a lot of the tests or

choice actually have the the modified

fishtail with the exception of scubapro

go which was a 20-19 testers choice so

definitely a good fin here on this side

rock along is brand new for 2020 so was

not even test flipping it over starting

at the heel pocket working our way down

have

more ridges for better grip on the boat

on the storm

whereas scubapro is just going to be a

pretty standard underside you're also

going to notice that there are still two

punch outs for added efficiency in the

dead zone for water being able to travel

through their channels are going to run

the length almost identical on the

bottom of the fin and one noticeable

difference though is that the scuba Pro

comes with a pre 25 degree angle Bend

incorporated into it to give you in that

parallel position a little bit better

kick efficiency so that is definitely

added advantage there one other thing to

note on the bottom is is this little tab

right here is a nifty little thing that

scubapro added so that when you are

traveling you are able to hook these

fins together and by wrapping a strap on

the underside whoops they stay together

better so a nice addition there and that

about wraps it up if you have any

questions that we didn't cover then the

answer in this video please leave a

comment below and we will do our best to

get you the answer so that you can go

out and make the best decision possible

for you we'd like to thank you for

taking the time to watch our video if

you're ever on the island of Oahu please

stop by one of our stores we'd love to

see you and until the next video go out

have fun safe diving we'll talk to you

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