DC Rainmaker Reviews the Aquapulse - Finis

pool with it, as well as on the phone with the folks from FINIS getting all the details on both current – as well as
upcoming product.
An inte re sting backstory:
Some of the more historically minded folks may know/realiz e/remember that the AquaPulse was actually
announced almost two years ago. In fact, it was my recent Slowtwitch post noting it’s apparent death before
arrival that triggered the entire reason I got this post.
It turned out that after a good long conversation with the CEO of FINIS – John Mix, that in reality they had
simply started back from scratch. Some two years ago during final testing in pre-production units, they were
finding about a 5% error rate where the HR data would disappear. Instead of shipping the product the
company decided to delay release and engineer some more. Unfortunately, in the process they lost a key (or
perhaps more accurately, the key ) engineer working on the project – ultimately resulting in the entire project
having to be started back from scratch again. A process that would take nearly two more years.
Why do I mention this? Well, for two reasons. First, it shows that unlike some companies in the sports
technology world who may ship a product with a 5% error rate, FINIS wasn’t willing to. And secondly, because
I thought was interesting. Most companies wouldn’t have been ‘man enough’ to admit that they had to go
back to the drawing board to make it right.
With that, it’s time to unbox this puppy.
Unboxing:
For those with the FINIS Swimsense unit – you’ll find the packaging remarkably similar. To make that point, I
present you the AquaPulse unit on the left, and the Swimsense unit on the right:
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