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SEALs to Get Swimming Gizmo

New device will help fighters swim up to 150% faster and arrive less tired

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 8, 2007 6:08 PM CDT

(Newser) – Navy SEALs will be swimming to their targets up to 150% faster when they get a new Pentagon gizmo called a PowerSwim. It looks like a mini-glider that attaches to a diver's legs, Popular Mechanics reports. SEALs reportedly take about 2 hours to master it; they have to learn a unique undulating motion that relieves smaller muscles normally used to swim.

PowerSwim should get fighters to targets faster and less fatigued, says a Pentagon project manager, but won't help them go any farther. She adds that some SEALs will discard the gizmo James Bond-style, along with other equipment, just before emerging on land. Now being packaged, the device should be in production by 2008.

Candid photo of special warfare U.S. Navy SEAL
Candid photo of special warfare U.S. Navy SEAL   (KRT Photos)
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