Tusa Travel Right Scuba Diving Fins

The Tusa Travel Right is a bungee-strap dive fin built around packing light. The spec rows list an ultra-soft foot pocket with a round-edge structure, Tusa's Anatomic Fin Strap system, an Angled Blade Design, and an attachment point at the tip for clipping the pair together. Tusa aims it at travel divers and recreational divers, for scuba and snorkelling.

Who this suits

This is a fin for the diver who flies to their diving and would rather bring their own kit than take whatever the shop hands them. Tusa lists it as ultra-lightweight and designed for travel, and the tip attachment point exists so the pair clips together in a bag instead of drifting around it.

It also suits anyone who has fought with a buckle strap on a rolling boat. The bungee strap needs no adjustment at all: it stretches over your heel, holds, and comes off the same way. There is nothing to thread, nothing to tighten and nothing to snap.

Skip it if you want a stiff, powerful blade. Tusa positions this fin on comfort and balanced flexibility, not raw thrust, and a heavier full blade will always move more water per kick. Skip it too if a fixed-length bungee worries you: there is no adjustment, so the fit you get is the fit the size gives you.

The strap: bungee, and nothing to fiddle with

The strap is a highly elastic bungee, working with Tusa's Anatomic Fin Strap (AFS) system, and Tusa's own row for it says plainly: easy donning and doffing, no adjustments needed.

What that means in the water is one fewer thing to go wrong. A buckle strap slips, a cam lock ices up your patience, and both of them want two hands and a look at what you are doing, usually while a boat is moving under you. A bungee is on or off. The cost is that you cannot dial the tension, so the strap has to be right for your foot from the start rather than adjusted to it.

The foot pocket

Tusa specifies an ultra-soft foot pocket with a round-edge structure, and rates it as fitting almost any foot shape.

Rounded edges are the detail worth caring about here. On a longer dive it is the hard corner of a foot pocket that starts working on the top of your foot or the side of your heel, and by the afternoon dive you know about it. A soft pocket with rounded edges spreads that pressure instead of concentrating it. Tusa gives no material name for the pocket beyond "ultra-soft", so if you need to know the compound, ask the retailer.

The blade

The blade uses Tusa's Angled Blade Design (ABD), which sets the blade at an angle to the foot pocket rather than running flat off it.

The idea is that an angled blade sits at a better attack angle through more of your kick, so more of the leg movement turns into forward travel rather than churn. Tusa describes the angle as optimised for kick efficiency and the fin as delivering maximum propulsion efficiency. Those are the manufacturer's words, not a measurement, and there is no thrust figure or blade length in the spec rows to check them against. What you can take from it is the design intent: a fin tuned for an easy, sustainable kick over a long dive rather than for sprinting.

Which version this page covers, and one thing to check

This page covers the Tusa Travel Right fin as Tusa specifies it, with the bungee strap. One caveat worth your attention before you order: Tusa's design style row reads "Full Foot / Bungee Strap", while the shop's category path files the fin under adjustable strap fins. Those two do not describe the same thing, and the spec rows do not settle it. If you plan to wear dive boots, check the retailer's own listing and photos for the pair you are buying. No sizes are named in the spec rows either, so take the sizing from the retailer as well.

The bottom line

The Travel Right is a sensible travel fin: a bungee strap that needs no adjusting, a soft round-edged foot pocket built for a wide range of feet, an angled blade aimed at easy kicking, and a tip attachment point that makes packing them less annoying. What it is not is a power fin, and it is not a documented one either. Tusa publishes no weight, no blade length and no material name, only the words ultra-lightweight and ultra-soft, which is thin ground for a fin sold on how little it weighs. Buy it for comfort and packability, and get the figures from the retailer if they decide it for you.

Specifications