In search of the ultimate air ring

[Digger54]

You know... like smoke rings, except you blow them in the water.

I was lying at the bottom of the LDS pool last Friday evening, watching a class of OW students doing their required surface swim and it occured to me that I had never tried to create an air ring.

I'd take a breath, remove the regulator and exhale with a short, explosive, "puh!" and could get some rings that would form nicely. After they rose a couple of feet they would start to disintegrate into several bubbles.

Any advice from you experts as to how to blow good, lasting rings would be appreciated.

 

[Diver0001]

Practice.

I guess for everyone it's different but "PUH" seems like the wrong sound to me. I think you'd be expelling too much air. You don't need any more air than what you can hold in your cheeks.

I pucker up like I'm trying to kiss it out with my jaw outwardly extended and the sound is more like BUP than PUH.

The other thing you need to do is find a spot in the pool where the circulation of the water is minimal. Some pools suck for making bubble rings because the water circulation is just too powerful and it blows them apart.

Finally, if you're going to bother learning to do this then learn to do it while hovering upside-down in mid water. At least that way you retain something useful from the skill..... Laying on the bottom of the pool to blow bubble rings like like rubbing your head with a balloon and calling it an air-bag.

R..