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• Richard
  Mar 10, 2009 at 3:36 am

  Come on guys, let’s at least do SOME research into a story instead of assuming the other guy did.
  1) the inventor is American, from Athens GA. He is not Greek.
  2) The new fin has propelled swimmers at eight (8) MPH – it is dolphins who go at 33 MPH and convert 80% of their energy into thrust.

  At least you got the relationship to Phelps’ speed correct – 8 MPH is twice Phelps’ speed.

  And this information took me all of 15 seconds (two clicks) to determine by going back to the original article in Scientific American.

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• ann
  Mar 10, 2009 at 6:21 pm

  Wrong – not 33 mph, 8 mph. You quoted the original article incorrectly. 33 mph is a dolphin’s speed.

  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dolphin-inspired-man-made-fin

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• Vic DaSilva
  Mar 13, 2009 at 1:27 pm

  Ann and Richard,

  I updated the post to correct the errors. Thanks for letting us know

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