Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA02381; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:52:02 -0700 Return-Path: <James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> Received: from mercury.Sun.COM by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA002851908; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:51:48 -0700 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM by mercury.Sun.COM (Sun.COM) id NAA15004; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:41:37 -0700 Received: from jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (jurassic-52.Eng.Sun.COM) by Eng.Sun.COM (5.x/SMI-5.3) id AA16479; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:41:34 -0700 Received: from jalama.Eng.Sun.COM by jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA06595; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:41:31 -0700 Received: by jalama.Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6.9/SMI-SVR4) id NAA02433; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:42:44 -0700 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:42:44 -0700 From: James.Paugh@Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis (Jim Paugh) Message-Id: <199509142042.NAA02433@jalama.Eng.Sun.COM-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: The ultimate safety kit X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
> I guess the marine radio is the ultimate solution, but what I'd really
> like is a pair of swim fins that were small enough to carry on my
> body, yet big enough to be functional. This seems impossible, given
> the fins that I have seen for scuba or snorkeling, but I wonder if
> anyone knows of any that are a good compromise. These would also be
> extremely useful in non-life threatening situations such as when
> swimming out to the windline and back in when the wind dies.
I used to use Churchill (brand name) fins for body surfing. They are
fairly small, and would probably fit in a small mesh backpack. You
could even take a hack saw and cut these fins down even smaller. They
would be compact, but would still be better than none at all.
~Jim
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