Many questions received often depend on the goals of the person asking the question. Just starting a fitness program with running or swimming and wondering what kind of gear is needed or preferred is ...

The Little Mermaid famously sang "flipping your fins, you don't get too far." Apparently, she's never seen Merle Liivand swim. Liivand, also known as "Eco Mermaid," broke a Guinness World Record in ...

Phoenix, Arizona, August 3. THE principal function of the HYDRO TECH 2 SWIM Fins is to enable anyone from a novice to an Olympic standard swimmer to achieve an exact balanced kick, while using their ...

If you are preparing for Special Operation programs that involve swimming and diving training, you will learn some or all of these strokes: the Combat Swimmer Stroke (CSS), elementary side stroke, ...

In the sports performance gear world they call this biomimicry. Speedo used the technique—designing gear based off nature—for its brand-new Nemesis Fin. The nature of choice? The pectoral fin of the ...

A woman who campaigns for cleaner waterways is attempting to set a new world record for the longest distance swum using a ...

FINIS, Inc., a world leader in technical swimming development, is proud to announce the release of the Edge fins, a comfortable high-velocity swim fin. The team set out to make the world’s fastest and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Fun Fins swim program plans to teach more than 700 kids how to swim during the summer. The new program, announced on Monday, plans to start teaching children in rural areas ...

A woman who campaigns for cleaner waterways was forced to quit a world record attempt swim after experiencing "excruciating" ...

If you've ever seen a humpback whale's fins, you might have noticed that they have knobby bits along the front edge. These are known as tubercles, and they cause the water to flow over the fins in ...

The sensory system in fish fins evolves in parallel to fin shape and mechanics, and is specifically tuned to work with the fish's swimming behavior, according to new research. The researchers found ...