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A new company has just been introduced - APS Mantaray - which is marketing the revolutionary Six-Gill fin. Below is a statement of introduction from the company's found John Wagner.

We are very excited about releasing the original Mantaray dual-directional water channeling system dive fins to you. As the inventor and manufacturer of this great dive fin, we are able to offer the Mantaray to you manufacturer direct, offering a new pricing structure that will give dive shops an extraordinary fin at a great price. We are also introducing two additional exciting new colors which we are sure your customers will be excited about. The dual-directional water channeling system has already received numerous awards and magazine write-ups in Scuba Dive Magazine, Popular Science, Asian Diver Magazine, Sports Diver, and Dive Training. It was also chosen to be exhibited at the Inventors Expo sponsored by the U.S. Patent Office. The dual-directional water channeling system dive fins has received praise from Navy Seals, Lifeguards, Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, dive instructors, dive photographers, wreck divers, avid divers, and beginner divers.

We have spent the last 14 years solely focused on fin design and on how to bring a smaller, lighter more compact fin to the market which offers extraordinary power, kick versatility and energy efficiency. In the designing of this fin, extensive research was used such as earlier fin studies and testing and research done by Glen Egstrom, professor of Kinesiology at UCLA and Donna Nawrocki, David Pendergast, Marcy Teesco, and Nadine Fisher of the Center for Research in Special Environments in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since then the fin has gone through an evolutionary process of perfecting the design by making it lighter, faster, more stable, responsive, and easy to kick. Furthermore, the patented dual-directional water channeling system has proven to stabilize the fin blade making a shorter fin more efficient by properly channeling the water over the blade surface and focusing the thrust. The challenge was to put all this into a lightweight compact fin design which gives total kick versatility, low silting, comfort, maneuverability in tight areas, and help in protecting the underwater environment with a smaller blade. We also set out to design a simpler, less complicated fin strap which helps to streamline your dive gear. You get all this, at an affordable price.

Dive shops and stores are no longer required to make large purchases to receive good pricing on our fins and straps. There is no minimal amount required. We can now give shops great price margins on a product they can feel good about passing onto their customers. Thank you all very much for your support/feedback and may we all continue to take care of our oceans and water environments for many future years of diving enjoyment to come!

For more information please visit our website at www.apsmantaray.com.