Scuba gear package for the handicapped

I snapped this scuba gear package picture in a diving equipment shop window, only because it inspired a humorous thought: 'a streamlined guy like that could kick through the water as fast as a torpedo wearing an air tank!' (I'm not intending insult here, but rather the reverse.) If a person with no arms was able to do necessary underwater functions that require hands, then supposedly 'handicapped' people would be at an advantage over others.

I strongly suspect this is true from a personal observation from my life. I knew someone who was a good swimmer before loosing an arm to an industrial accident. After the amputation and his recovery, he was an even faster swimmer than before. Was this a function of better streamlining? Or was it just he had more determination afterward. Only he knew that for sure and I never asked ..but I'm asking now.

Why don't scuba gear companies and other sports equipment manufacturers attempt to make real improvements to scuba diving gear, and other sports necessities? The answer is too easy. Because despite plenty of (false) advertising of wanting to make us the best at what we want to do--they REALLY only care to make as many dollars as possible, while spending the least amount possible on Research and development. That's really the way of the world, from scuba gear and diving equipment, to automobiles and safety products. The handicapped scuba diving associations are left to assist the handicapped, without any REAL assistance from manufactures.

This was supposed to be just a humorous diving equipment post, based on a humorous picture picture of a handicapped mannequin wearing a scuba gear package, but I see it's turned into a bit of a rant on the state of the world. So I'll end here.