At this point, you start gliding through the water with the splendid, gracious ease of a cruising dugong with an outboard up its bum.

Pulitzer candidate right there.

I can't tell how fast it is, is there a comparison of someone using this vs. a regular swimmer?

This is a really cool idea and I'd try it. But also the video was kind of underwhelming and they look like huge nerds.

So ... with that central rod up your butt (for stability) ... the land bike counterpart is this:

Seabike says the prop turns slowly enough that you can safely use it at the local pool – although you'll certainly cop some dirty looks from the Speedo brigade in the fast lane.

You're going to get dirty looks because you can't do a flip turn and block the rest of us. This is cool in the open water but not for lap swimming in a pool.

I feel like this is how you get chased by sharks and killer whales

It actually does look relatively faster. This might have given me an idea..

Well I haven't swam in over a decade but I want one.

This needs to be cross posted to "Fuck Cars".

Car enjoyers in shambles... Again

seems a little bit scary being clipped into the contraption. maybe not as bad if scuba is involved. but what if the mechanism fails or gets snagged while you’re clipped to it?