Whatever Happened to Watermanship?
T-shirt logo from 2019 URT Womp bodysurfing contest More than once I have been out in the lineup when another surfer wipes out, his leash...
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DUCK FEET DIGEST
Showcasing the Fun, Functionality, and Simple Beauty of Duck Feet Swim Fins
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This blog is simply a venue for ocean enthusiasts to share their images, stories, and other forms of expression, related to Duck Feet swim fins. It is not intended to promote a product or an agenda, it is just one more opportunity, for those passionate about the ocean, to connect and have fun.
I thought about doing this blog for some time, now that I am stuck in my house for the Covid-19 Virus pandemic, this seems like a good time to do it.
Please email me your family-friendly submissions (duckfeetdigest@gmail.com), and if I can figure out how to do it, I will post them for your fellow watermen to enjoy. Body surfers, snorkelers, scuba divers, Lifeguards, Marine Safety Officers, ocean swimmers, Air mat riders,and, because we feel sorry for them, even body boarders (just kidding), please contribute or this blog is going no where. Let us know what aquatic activities you perform in the ocean and where your image/story/interpretive dance, or haiku occurred.
For example: I am Bob H. This is a photo of me, my Duck Feet, and a Blue Whale off Southern California. I started wearing Duck Feet almost 5 decades ago, as a snorkeler and bodysurfer. Duck Feet continue to be my all around favorite fin for diving and body surfing.
Photo credit Mike Johnson
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Raising Ocean Minded Kids (A Family Affair)
How could you grow up watching Flipper every week and not be passionate about the ocean? For what ever reason, I have always loved being...
Fins, a Guest Essay.
The following is an essay submitted, by request, to Duck Feet Digest. The author is Michael T. Martino, a retired chief lifeguard and...
The Voyages of The Skiff Flyingfish
Flyingfish in her element I don't normally associate most boating activities with someone's status as a waterman. Yachting, fishing, wake...
Lifeguards and Duck Feet
Bronze lifeguard statue near main lifeguard tower in Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA. Duck Feet and metal "can" rescue buoy were standard...
Of Having Boats, and Young Men, to Build
I'm going to build me a boat With these two hands She'll be a fair curve From a noble plan Let the chips fall where they will 'Cause I've...
Celebrating an Ecological Success, Yay!
Green Sea Turtle, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands If you feel like life is miserable, and there is no hope for improvement, perhaps it is...
When Free Diving was Skin Diving
Black and white copy of first issue of Skin Diver magazine 1952 I am writing this blog because I am having a bit of an identity crisis....
Back in the Ocean Again
This past weekend I took advantage of the beaches being open in most of California. I flew down to San Diego to stay with my longtime...
Free the Humans: It is time to open our beaches and parks
Last Saturday morning I drove past our local skate park, just in time to watch a young teen skate up to the caution tape that encircled...
Duck Feet in Art
This painting was submitted to Duck Feet Digest by my lifelong friend, Ne'. Ne' is a physician, waterman, horseman, boat mechanic,...
Watermen and a Sense of Wonder
Just another Pencil Urchin (Heterocentrotus mamillatus) in a dirty little harbor- Kawaihae, HI There are probably as many ways to define...
Duck Feet as an Artistic Medium
Surfbyrd has submitted the first ever artistic contribution to Duck Feet Digest Here is Surfbyrd's description of her artwork- Felt...
Duck Feet by Design
The box from my most recent Duck Feet purchase Duck Feet have remained essentially unchanged since they were first sold by the...
My History with Duck Feet
Disclaimer- I am not saying that Duck Feet are the perfect swim fin, or that they are even the best swim fin. As you can see, I have a...
A Brief History of Duck Feet Swim Fins
While Churchill Swim Fins were a tremendous step in the right direction, many ocean enthusiasts thought that a bigger, stiffer blade...
A Brief History of Swim Fins
The first historical mention of anything resembling swim fins would be Davinci's diagrams of swimming paddles attached to the feet of...
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