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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Swimfin (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Swimfins, swim fins, fins or flippers are finlike rubber or plastic shoes worn over the foot to help movement through the water in water sports activities such as bodyboarding, bodysurfing, kneeboarding, swimming, and various types of diving. |
 | | Benjamin Franklin made a pair of early swimfins while he was a young boy living in Boston, Massachusetts near the river; they were two thin pieces of wood, about the shape of an art pallette, which let him move faster than he usually did in the water. |
 | | Swimfins are also known as "flippers" outside of North America, though scuba divers all around the world use the words fins. |
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