Decent Short Boot

Bought a set of these boots for both myself and my wife to replace our 7mm cold water tall boots for shore diving in Bonaire. While I love the nice hard sole and the easy...Read complete review

Bought a set of these boots for both myself and my wife to replace our 7mm cold water tall boots for shore diving in Bonaire. While I love the nice hard sole and the easy ability to quickly take them on and off. The boots are a tad too short as they don't seal the the wetsuit and thus cause increased water flow through the wetsuit versus our old 7mm tall boots. If these boots were 2" taller all would be good. The second grip is the boots wore both my wife's and my Achilles raw over the course of the week both where the fin strap hits our foot and at another spot on top of my feet only. With our old boots this never happened to my wife, but did occasionally happen to me. About 3/4 the way through our dive trip we tried cinching our fin strap to the hard sole, which is lower than a person would normally place it and it seemed to help. However, we only dive 1.5 days using this method so can't say for certain it would correct the extreme rubbing. Finally the size of the boots is about 1/2 size too large. I typically where a mens 9 and the 8 was too small with my toes crammed against the end and the boot squeezing the sides of my feet and the 9 was too large with my foot swimming in the boot.

Overall your options are extremely limited if you want a hard soled short boot for shore diving as this was one of the few I could find.