'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
French company Seabike has developed a swimming device that uses your own leg power to accelerate you through the water at superhuman speeds. This crank-driven pusher prop looks a bit like an underwater unicycle... We'd love to take one for a spin!
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Super cool, bu are they faster/more efficent than a good pair of diving fins?
They don't discuss specific speeds, but this is from the last paragraph:
This jigger, according to the manufacturers, makes you handily quicker than an equivalent swimmer with fins on.
What's "handily quicker"? A lot quicker? A good phrase for selling a novelty product?
I have to wonder how the Seabike, as shown exclusively in a swimming pool rather than any of the many seas on the planet, actually performs.
What's "handily quicker"?
About 30 long bananes per hour.
Yo this device gives handies! Quick!
Yknow, I don't think anyone's ever made a bike powered version of those insane £200 electronic masturbators there are memes about these days... Eco wank anyone?
I'm very skeptical about that. It's an expensive augmented swimming device that says it's faster than fins but doesn't prove it with stats or even just a side-by-side video...?
Yeah. I'm just gonna say it's not quicker, and certainly not more efficient.
Why would I want this as opposed to an electric one that I hold in my hands, that can zoop me across the ocean without consuming extra oxygen from physical exertion?
Price and depth