Breathing through your mouth

[love2godeep]

Has anyone noticed a tendency to mouth breathing along with an increased enthusiasm for diving?

Like. . . . close your eyes, I'm underwater, breathing through my reg. . . .

Soon you don't have to close your eyes to do it....

Soon you're doing it unconsciously.... and then you start to get perioral numbness, and you wonder if you've gone off the deep end.

Maybe you have!

What's the cure? Or is it terminal? :06:

 

[Rick Inman]

You have.
The drool on your chin was the first clue.

 

[ArcticDiver]

:dazzler1: It's just the next upward evolutionary step. Now the nose is just something to support divers' cool shades.

Now if we could hinge it so it would be out of the way at certain important times........

 

[Optik]

Hehe, its funny that you mention the mouth breathing. Once iam underwater my breathing becomes mechanical. However, if i "close my eyes" and think about it, yes, i can go into that state. Looks kinda funny though.

 

[Roz Amos]

I find myself generally much more conscious of my breathing than I used to be before I dived, and actively work on slowing my breathing if i am agitated or stressed, by breathing as if I were diving, which helps to calm me down.