Dry top snorkels

[gcarter]

I appreciate all of the responses, but I admit I am no more enlightened.

Cost is not a reason to ban - buy what you can afford, or spend what you want to spend. Nothing to do with standards.

The comments about the fit for kids - fair comments, but it is just another fit issue. And the vast majority of divers are not kids anyway.

Tangle hazard? Not what fdog posted a picture of in #17.

So again, what is the reasoned case aganst them? I am tending to agree with toddthecat that it really is just personal preference.

 

[dive_turkey]

I appreciate all of the responses, but I admit I am no more enlightened.

Cost is not a reason to ban - buy what you can afford, or spend what you want to spend. Nothing to do with standards.

The comments about the fit for kids - fair comments, but it is just another fit issue. And the vast majority of divers are not kids anyway.

Tangle hazard? Not what fdog posted a picture of in #17.

So again, what is the reasoned case aganst them? I am tending to agree with toddthecat that it really is just personal preference.

You forgot rescue breaths.

 

[TSandM]

It's been my observation that a lot of the dry snorkels have such a bulky and heavy attachment at the top that they simply will not stand up -- they constantly fall over, and twist the mask strap, and cause the students' masks to leak. The one James pictured doesn't look as though it would do that.