Potential Problem?

[Gombessa]

If you were to fill your mask with water while being on the surface, put on the mask and tip your head back. Do you get water that runs into the back of your throat even when you put positive pressure into your nose?

I assume you mean water entering through your nose and down your throat?

As long as your head is upright, no water should enter your nose at all unless you breathe in. If you're exhaling through your nose, you definitely shouldn't have any water enter.

Are you able to swim or dive regularly (without scuba gear) with your head underwater? If so, it sounds like an issue of learning to independently control your breathing between your mouth and nose, because nothing should change just because you have a regulator in your mouth.

 

[Gary D.]

A buddy of mine had the same problem. We tried a lot of stuff that just didn’t work. So as a last resort I had him wear his mask all day at work.

He’s self employed out of a private office so he didn’t look like an idiot. He is on the phone a lot and just told everyone he had a cold.

At lunch time we filled the mask over his nose with water. By the end of the day and several refills he is now very comfortable and proficient without a mask on.

But try what Walter suggested first.

Gary D.

 

[Thalassamania]

I assume you mean water entering through your nose and down your throat?

This is not unusual as a result of a venturi in the internal nares during an inhalation through the mouth.

As long as your head is upright, no water should enter your nose at all unless you breathe in.

That's the theory gut there's enough variation in the human body to confound most theories.

If you're exhaling through your nose, you definitely shouldn't have any water enter.

Yes.

Are you able to swim or dive regularly (without scuba gear) with your head underwater? If so, it sounds like an issue of learning to independently control your breathing between your mouth and nose, because nothing should change just because you have a regulator in your mouth.

Independent control is the issue, see my earlier post.