Transform your time in the water with a solid set of fins (that is, flippers for the uninitiated). No matter if you’re clocking up laps in the pool, scuba diving in the deep blue, or snorkeling ...

If you are considering joining a military diving or any waterborne special-ops program, you will have to swim with fins. Big fins. Swimming with SCUBA fins is more difficult than the snorkeling ...

Bruce Butterworth, left, and Jonas Furberg at Blue Planet Scuba ... t that deep — from five to 15 feet below the surface — but to reach them easily requires a mask, snorkel and fins.