Darkfin Swimming Gloves
The Darkfin Swimming Gloves falls under the Diving Booties & Gloves category and is available at our Dive Shop. For more info on this item of Dive Gear, please see below:
The finest, high-performance water propulsion and paddle glove on the planet!
We love this planet, and we love our oceans, thats why every set of gloves is hand made with 100% Biodegradable, Non-Toxic, Materials.
This is the original webbed glove, handmade and purpose built to enhance your aquatic sports experience. Used by World Surfing League champions, Guinness World Record divers, pioneers of whitewater river boarding, and thousands of freedivers, surfers, scuba enthusiasts, snorkelers, swimmers, and kayakers the world over. It’s like nothing you’ve ever used before, even if you’ve used other webbed gloves! What makes a Darkfin Power Glove paddle power so superior to the competition? Three main features:
Nano Cellular Bonding Process
The entire glove, including the webbing, is made from 100% true natural latex. Why latex? It gives Darkfin Gloves several advantages: Ultra-thin, 0.9mil “second skin” fit to keep water out, natural biodegradability (we hate beach and ocean trash too), and most importantly; it’s what allowed to develop our exclusive Nano Cellular Bonding process. Nano Cellular Bonding – or NCB – is how we attach the webbing to the glove. It allows for a seamless, non-adhesive bonding at the cellular level, resulting in no structural weak points like a conventional stitched or glued on web.
3-D Webbing Profile
By using our Nano Cellular Bonding process we’re able to affix the webbing to the back of the glove to create the only 3-D web profile in the business. This exclusive design allows for a whopping 70% increase in surface area compared to using your bare hand for propulsion! Since the 3-D webbing is made of latex and bonded to the glove, it’s able to move with your fingers allowing you to vary the resistance level of the glove. This makes the Darkfin Power glove visibly and mechanically superior to gloves that use either injection moulding or adhesive to connect the webbing between the fingers only.
Cotton Flocked Finish
One of the most inconvenient aspects of wearing gloves is the loss of dexterity. Manipulating small mechanical parts can be cumbersome, achieving and maintaining a solid grip challenging, and forget about tactile feedback. Not with Darkfin Gloves! It start with an ultra thin latex glove for maximum sensitivity and then add exclusive Cotton Flock Finish to the entire surface of the glove. The cotton fibers embed themselves in the latex – and when activated with water – provide superb grip.
Finally, we know one size doesn’t fit all. Hands are a lot like feet and 3 sizes won’t fit everyone. Darkfin Power Gloves are offered in an industry leading 12 different sizes! No water propulsion glove manufacturer offers more sizes than Darkfin. Made in USA
Tip: If you’re concerned about water entering the glove at the wrist, we recommend trying the next size down. The glove is supposed to fit tight but not uncomfortable!
Booties, Gloves and Socks:
Many Scuba divers choose to use open heel fins for diving and therefore need booties to slide into the fin pocket.
The booties also provide protection for the feet when walking on the hot beach sand or from knocking your toes on the boat as well as also provide warmth for the feet while diving.
You can get a high cut booties or a low cut bootie. This generally refers to how high they sit on the ankle.
Neoprene Socks are excellent to use with closed heel fins and free-diving fins, to keep your feet warm.
Gloves are also added for additional warmth especially when diving in colder waters. A 3mm Glove is usually the best choice as the thicker the glove the clumsier the hand. 5mm Gloves will be required for the very cold waters, such as in Cape Town.
david o. (verified owner) –
Excellent quality ,sized correct to chart provided
Ray Wallace (verified owner) –
Lance von der Au (verified owner) –