Snorkel or no snorkel and why

[fishb0y]

I don't like to use a snorkel. I'm not quite sure why people spend $30+ for a "dry" snorkel when it will be under water most of the time, plus I see them as a potential snag hazard. If you don't use a snorkel, at what point in your diving career did you get rid of it? Your thoughts?

 

[Spoon]

i used to use a snorkel but after taking my dir classes i scrapped it altogether. also being most of my dives are boat dives i dont see the need for it, i dont need the extra entanglemnt issue and drag posed by using the snorkel.

 

[pipedope]

If my dive will include a surface swim I will at least bring a snorkel.

Most of the time I don't use a snorkel.

 

[lamont]

If you don't use a snorkel, at what point in your diving career did you get rid of it?

post-BOW dive #1.

 

[Spoon]

whats bow?

 

[lamont]

whats bow?

Basic Open Water as opposed to AOW.

 

[Spoon]

Basic Open Water as opposed to AOW.

ok, whats your cert agency? never heard of that one before

 

[BarryNL]

I don't like to use a snorkel. I'm not quite sure why people spend $30+ for a "dry" snorkel when it will be under water most of the time, plus I see them as a potential snag hazard. If you don't use a snorkel, at what point in your diving career did you get rid of it? Your thoughts?

I stopped using one after about dive 30. I still keep one in with my dive kit though - mainly in case I'm on a dive where a dive operator or instructor insists I use one.

Generally I think they're more a hazard than a help though.

 

[miketsp]

Wow, almost 4 months since the last snorkel-no snorkel thread.
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=102199
That has to be a record!
Of course the definitive thread on the subject from March
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=89179
was locked after only 511 posts!!!! :icosm10:
And the dead horse was flogged over and over until no-one could take any more . :crush:

And then there's
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=83405
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=89757
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=70172
and Polls
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=20058
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=32868
and legal requirement
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=64133
snorkels & long hose
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=61755
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=53060
useless
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=61115
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=32942
and a few more on the same subject
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=28897
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=24594
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=18660
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=17022
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=15530
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=7788
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=4460
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=3625
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=1926

Is there really anything new to say on this subject?

 

[KOMPRESSOR]

If you don't need it, don't bring it. After 50 dives I realized I hadn't used it once. Still one day when I had forgotten it, I felt my heart rush. Now what should I do??! Could I dive without it? But we used them in my OW and AOW classes! Well, I did my dive without it, and haven't used a snorkel to anything but skin diving ever since.

To use a snorkel in the surface, what's it good for? It's very much more straining to breath in than you regualtor. In fact, I am not sure you should use a snorkel during a "heavy" workout, as it can be to get back to shore in swelling seas.