Finswimming

Finswimming is an underwater sport where athletes use fins (Mono / Bi-fins) and race against each other with the use of floating and breathing equipment like masks, snorkels and scuba diving set. The Sport – Finswimming, consists of four techniques involving swimming with the use of fins either on the water’s surface using a snorkel with either monofins or bifins or underwater with monofin either by holding one’s breath or using open circuit scuba diving equipment, for different distances as designed by the CMAS.

Competitive Event techniques are – Bi-finswimming (BF), Surface Finswimming (SF), Aponea (Apnea), Immersion Finswimming.(IM), Open Water Finswimming (OW).