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For very, very short distances I can run faster than most people can cycle.
For mere fractions of a second, I can outwalk a jet.
This device is US$310. Good carbon fins (the long ones for freediving) cost just a tiny bit more [1] and can also propel you at a superhuman speed. Plastic ones are even cheaper. A speed comparison would have been nice. EDIT: it's already there: "This jigger, according to the manufacturers, makes you handily quicker than an equivalent swimmer with fins on." [1] https://www.westmarine.com/mares-razor-carbon-dive-fins-…
I guess the actual plan is to sell classes by taking advantage of the novelty effect.
Very splendid, except some dozen people managed to misuse it. Diving deeper and without small emergency bottle.
So it was banned for all eternity everywhere. Even Chinese have not rekindled this product.
There was Australian underwater breathing device, which used your leg movement as only powersource. As I recall it could do 5 meters. Very splendid, except some dozen people managed to misuse it. Diving deeper and without small emergency bottle. So it was banned for all eternity everywhere. Even Chinese have not rekindled this product.
There was Australian underwater breathing device, which used your leg movement as only powersource. As I recall it could do 5 meters. Very splendid, except some dozen people managed to misuse it. Diving deeper and without small emergency bottle. So it was banned for all eternity everywhere. Even Chinese have not rekindled this product.
For those like me who are curious what it looks like: https://www.designboom.com/technology/exolung-underwater-air...
Because I am fool, I tried to make my own. But gave up because breakages were indicated only by lung full of water, which tend to be fatal.
There was Australian underwater breathing device, which used your leg movement as only powersource. As I recall it could do 5 meters. Very splendid, except some dozen people managed to misuse it. Diving deeper and without small emergency bottle. So it was banned for all eternity everywhere. Even Chinese have not rekindled this product.
There was Australian underwater breathing device, which used your leg movement as only powersource. As I recall it could do 5 meters. Very splendid, except some dozen people managed to misuse it. Diving deeper and without small emergency bottle. So it was banned for all eternity everywhere. Even Chinese have not rekindled this product.
Kangaroos! Tragatschnig is Austrian, not Australian.
Could have been Austrian invention anyways, perhaps?
> The nominal mode enables motion through the water at 3.6 km/h, and for speed-seekers, the SEABIKE can reach a maximum of 7.9 km/h – much faster than normal swimming speeds or even flipper-assisted swimming. https://www.nauticexpo.com/prod/seabike/product-68606-564117... Pretty fast, but "superhuman"? For short distances Michael Phelps can swim faster :)
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I don't understand how this is different than the running-bicycling example. How does this swim for you but a bicycle doesn't run for you?
Wait until they hear about wheelchair basketball.