Comments about Mares Razor Carbon Spearfishing Full Foot Fins, Black:

Technically I'm a "professional" because I worked as a PADI Divemaster 12 years ago, but everything I do these days is for my own enjoyment. I've been freediving for most of my life. Carbon fiber fins are drastically better than plastic or rubber fins. I should have made the switch years ago. For scuba diving I still use and prefer Apollo split fins but for freediving, carbon fiber fins are substantially better. For example with my split fins and even Cressi Gara 3000 fins I would typically only go down 30 to 40 feet for abalone or spear fishing. I'm a decent freediver but going deeper than that always felt like too much work. I hate feeling out of breath when surfacing. Now I can cruse down to 50-60 feet, hangout on the bottom, and still surface comfortably. I would have gone down further to test my capabilities but I couldn't find anywhere deeper in the bay I was swimming in. I didn't realize how much energy I had been previously wasting trying to fight my way up and down. I'm not even using good fining technique. If I practiced with these fins I'm confident I could easily go down to 70, 80 or possibly even 100 feet. I wish I would have purchased these fins 15 years ago.