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My beef is that people like to make claims of it's safety gear and it's life support equipment to support all sorts of rediculous things. A snorkel is just a piece of gear. If it will be helpful for the dive take it. If if isnt don't. But it's not required and it's not safety gear.

You still have failed to provide a valid example where a typical snorkel is safety gear. What I said above stand true. And, as for speaking in absolutes, you have not met me nor do you know how fast I can swim or how fast I can bring a victim in assisted with a buddy. it seems a little...

It's not so much a shelf life as problems with fills on older tanks. There have been enough problems that many have simply said no aluminum tanks older than 1990. I have no problem buying a steel tank that is old but passes hydro. The aluminum is probably the same but due to the no fill policy...

I bought a set of used steel tanks. I'm told they are PSTs. They look like PSTs but I don't see any marking on them for sure. They were made in 98 and appear to have some kind of a finish on them. Galvanized or something maybe? The last owner wrote there name on them. I want to remove it. Is...

I don't care why the purge valves are there. Pretty much every snorkel sold now has a purge valve. That means your justification that a snorkel is safety gear based on some attribute a j tube snorkel might have is simply a weak argument for generally wearing a snorkel. I suppose the next...

Exactly.

Aqualung makes one that rolls up called the nautilus. There might be others.

Ok then. I've never seen a simple cheap j tube snorkel in a LDS. I doubt there is as much profit in them as the super dry extra cool models they sell. Your argument is simply hollow. Even if rescue breathing were a good reason to wear a snorkel it requires a snorkel that practically no one...

Congrats. Now, start swimming!

So I should instead take the word of some random Internet person. Ok. I don't think mouth to snorkel breathing would even work with most of the snorkels sold today. If it's got any kind of goofy vent at the top you may not be able to get a seal. Not to mention the purge valve.....

I do the right arm. Sometimes the computer gets a little cranky about ascent rate if you lift your arm to vent too fast and you have it on the left.

My reasoning is only as flawed as your future telling. You have no idea if your diver would have drowned if it were OOG or if they would have coughed and then been fine on the reg had there been no reg to go back too. Plus, if my situation was real and not practice, my guy would have drown...

Nah. That would require too much consideration. ;) My wife who is generally my buddy and is much smaller has no problem. Would she want my mouthpiece on her reg, of course not. It's not as comfortable as one that is a better size for her. Does she have trouble sharing air - not at all. It's a...

A couple weeks ago actually. I still don't see the argument working. If you are experienced/calm and working the problem, you'll work it out. If you are panicking I bet you figure out how to stuff it in your mouth if you have to chew off the ends. You are going to make that reg work. Actually...

I'm not carrying a snorkel for the teensy tiny chance I have to do a rescue with a long surface swim so I can shorten it from 15 minutes to 14 minutes. If I'm alone, and it's long enough for that to make a difference, there is a decent chance the best thing to do is just haul you in ASAP and...

That seems a little silly to me. In open water class, you learn to breath from a regulator without putting it in your mouth all the way (free flow drill). So even if the reg physically cannot fit in their mouth they can breath off it. If you are out of air and I hand you a reg with a molded...

It is not survival gear. It is not life support equipment. It is not safety equipment. It is not required. There may be one or two places where a snorkel is helpful. I haven't found those places yet. When I do, I'll take a snorkel diving. Until then the snorkel stays home.

Some people learn to dive in drysuits so experience is not an obstacle to using your suit, IMHO. The course is useful. Around here I think it runs about a hundred bucks. For that money you get an instructor paying attention to you for a couple dives. Is it possible to learn with a good...

I suspect you are looking at a pretty minimal paperwork fee for the AOW card if you are looking to walk into a shop and sign up for 5 specialties. If I were you and for some reason wanted to do this I'd just ask them to throw it in on a package deal for the 5 specialties.

Yeah. This bites the big one. Especially since they didn't bother to call me and tell me.