Yes I always wear my mask inside of my hood, why chance loosing the mask. If the strap breaks on one side I still have the mask. and there is much less of a problem if any when I accidentally get a fin in the face.
Anybody wear their mask INSIDE their hood?
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coach_izzy
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Add me for strap under the hood... Hey should we start a poll? 
Pseudocyber
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After reading this thread I went and tried my mask on under my hood. I have an Edge mask and a Pinnacle hood - it seems to me my straps will cause a pretty large gap at my temples - big enough to easily put my pinkie finger in - would this cause too much water to get in and interfere with keeping my head warm - isn't the head where your body loses a lot of heat from? So, is it a trade off in safety with the strap underneath - vs. keeping my head warmer?
(ps. still waiting on my checkout/certification dives)
(ps. still waiting on my checkout/certification dives)
I wear my mask strap on the outside of my hood. I like the idea of wearing it on the inside and have tried it several times but it always ends up creating a gap in the hood that air enters and I end up looking like a cone head. This also tends to make my head cold so I abandoned the idea and just wear the strap out. I do carry a backup mask and will deploy it if the need arises. I have been kicked a few times and so far the worst has been a flooded mask. I don't wear a snorkel, haven't for quite some time, not sure where mine is actually. If you are using a long hose you shouldn't be wearing a snorkel on your mask strap anyway, it interferes with proper deployment of the hose in an emergency. I think that the whole premise of the snorkel is flawed anyway, it assumes that you are going to run out of air and need it on the surface. I don't run out of air and I don't dive with anyone who does, so the snorkel sort of becomes a solution in search of a problem. I suppose that divers doing a long, planned surface swim may find one beneficial but that would fall under the category of carrying the equipment that the dive plan requires.
An innacurate premise can lead to the wrong conclusion!
The snorkel is there to allow swimming on the surface with your face in the water without using your compressed gasses. That's a very useful thing if you have a long surface swim (for those who say "just swim on your back" I say "things in the water are generally a whole lot more interesting than things in the air").
In the "good old days" we each owned one tank. That had to last the entire weekend of spearfishing, so the typical profile was to snorkel over to the site, crash dive, shoot a fish (or decide you didn't want to at that site) and come back up, getting back on the snorkel immediately to conserve that precious tank for another shot.
I don't know of anyone who uses a snorkel because they assume they're going to run out of air. And I certainly don't teach my students that.
Rick
Old post, but yes I've heard of that being suggested. It can affect comfort though. The mask strap is never flush against the side of the head and can cause the hood to have a gap where the mask strap is pulled away, thus putting extra stress on the mask strap. When that happens, you still run the risk of losing your mask if the strap breaks.
It's all give and take. For each resolution we potentially create two more problems.
It's all give and take. For each resolution we potentially create two more problems.
Like I said you may need one if you are doing allot of surface swiming. I think that PADI's requirement that everyone have a snorkel on every dive is flawed. I dont have much need for one when diving caves or wrecks
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I did this for the first time Saturday. It was GREAT. SSOOOO MUCH better than on the outside.
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Maybe not caves, but wrecks can quickly degenerate into a long surface swim.Like I said you may need one if you are doing allot of surface swiming. I think that PADI's requirement that everyone have a snorkel on every dive is flawed. I dont have much need for one when diving caves or wrecks
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