Imran Tahir

Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.

Pakistani Athlete

Sylvia Earle

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.

American Scientist

Colin Mochrie

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Scottish Actor

Tom Waits

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

American Musician

Snoop Dogg

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

American Rapper

Camille Grammer

I'm no table flipper. I am more calm and collected in my fights.

American Celebrity

Used to describe the paddle-like limbs of aquatic animals, especially for swimming.

Sea Creatures

Refers to how these sea creatures move swiftly in water with their flippers.

Movement in Water

Flippers are not called 'hands' or 'feet,' even though they function similarly for swimming.

Not Hands or Feet

Flippers are worn on the feet by swimmers and divers to move faster underwater.

Swimming Gear

The size of flippers affects swimming speed and agility underwater.

Size Matters

A kitchen tool with a wide, flat end for flipping food while frying or grilling.

Cooking Utensil

Usually made from materials safe for non-stick pans to avoid scratches.

Non-Stick Safe

Hand-operated devices in pinball to keep the ball in play and score points.

Pinball Control

Using pinball flippers well requires quick reactions to the ball's movements.

Fast Reflexes

 everything so nose to flipper and at that point we sort of make a note of where its injuries are and then at least once a day usually twice depending on the severity of the wounds we will clean them and this is a really important process because it lets us know every day we're checking them and we're seeing if actually the treatment is working because a lot of the time they're

Rescuing Adorable Grey...

 skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 and any organism will have those three components, so let's go through them one at a time. It has a body, and its body is made out of plastic, and it sits on top of the water. And it's got flippers on the side here -- paddles that help it move, just like the water boatman. It's got a plastic body,

A robot that eats...

 putting on your goggles, a pair of flippers, means you can go see another world, another universe, completely magical. You can see little fish, seaweed, the flora and fauna, you can watch it all discreetly, sliding underwater, looking around, and coming back to the surface, leaving no trace.

The Exhilarating Peace...

 adrenaline and that trying to be the fly in the wall getting a glimpse into its world seeing what nobody else has seen the scientist in me the biologist in me is very curious to see the fanning behavior of the flippers and how they could use their vibration to locate them

A Close Encounter With a...

 a significant relationship between the duration of the turtles dives and the number of breaths they took at the surface afterward the latest study based their findings on data collected to determine how deep the leatherback stove and how long their flippers stroke

Sea Turtles Match...

 nurturing caring animals that are very complex when you look at this tree historic serpentine appearance of a leopard suit they're designed for speed they've got these long pectoral flippers that when they're on a chase of a

Leopard Seals Play and...

 Despite their differences, pliosaurs and plesiosaurs shared a few key features that were characteristic of the genus Plesiosauria. They used all four of their flippers to swim in a form of underwater flight,

Plesiosaurs 101 PIPE...

 narrow this just puts in the flippers and claws and just strips it down strips it right off it's an unlikely relationship men considered to be tough as old nails raiding their stock for the

Seal Swims into City...

 there's a world beyond the nest down behind the Boatshed this plucky little talent still a couple of months from learning the true purpose of flippers is