Truefin 5/3/21 Truefin 5/3/21

Truefin in Production (Photos & Videos)

Truefin 4/5/21 Truefin 4/5/21

Survey - Dive Master Questionnaires

Truefin 11/12/20 Truefin 11/12/20

Fin Injection Mold Test Shots

Truefin 5/15/20 Truefin 5/15/20

Injection Mold Design

In order to mold Truefin relatively complicated tooling was required. For those interested, the below illustrations are examples of software analysis…

Truefin 9/19/19 Truefin 9/19/19

Endurance Tests

Machine endurance tests were conducted with Green '012' spines and with the mechanical ankle locked, which is a worse case situation because the artificial spine is straight during the flutter return stroke (while the mechanical ankle is locked).

Truefin 3/1/19 Truefin 3/1/19

Progression of the artificial spine and vertebrae design

Initially the metal spines of the scoliosis back brace were adapted to the 'Gen 1' swim fin, and subsequently the fin chassis as well as the non-metal artificial spines were created for Truefin after performing preliminary FEA.