Well I finally did it...

[Mo2vation]

This past weekend, Arnaud invited me to join him and some friends / instructor to tag along / assit in one of their classes. My role was to be "snorkler #2" - so if you get the DVD and want to see me in the credits, you know who to look for.

So after our first dive we were about an hour into the SI, and it was time for their second dive / exercise. Search, locate, and rescue a lost diver.

I finally did it - I went snorkling in a drysuit.

I've been wondering for quite awhile how this would go when I finally got to do it. So I borrowed a snorkle, closed the shoulder dump and hopped in. It was just a riot. It was like wearing a lift bag. I felt like one of those silly float markers they use in sailboat races! I wasn't all Michelin Man, but I was pretty Stay-Puft.

Aside from the WWE-esque bloated physique you assume, you're just so floaty... its the best snorkling rig ever. Arnaud's suit has green on the upper torso - so he was doing his best incredible Hulk impression. We were giggling so much, I could hear us chuckling thru the snorkles.

Snorkling in a dry suit. As long as you have no plans to, you know, descend to get a closer look at something, I highly recommend them for silly jellyfish floaty fun.

K

 

[ABQdiver]

Dude, you are just tooo silly!

 

[Otter]

Thankfully you didn't spring a leak and flood....What would you do then?

 

[String]

Done dry suit snorkelling here when the seals are about during surface interval. Its a very odd feeling (but youd be criminally insane to do it in a wet suit here imho!).

As you say though, just trying to get below the surface for a look isnt really possible unless you put on some weights too.

 

[dweeb]

As you say though, just trying to get below the surface for a look isnt really possible unless you put on some weights too.

Um, no. Been down 30 ft. snorkeling in a drysuit, no weightbelt. Just don't blow it up like the Goodyear blimp.

 

[Warren_L]

This past weekend, Arnaud invited me to join him and some friends / instructor to tag along / assit in one of their classes. My role was to be "snorkler #2" - so if you get the DVD and want to see me in the credits, you know who to look for.

So after our first dive we were about an hour into the SI, and it was time for their second dive / exercise. Search, locate, and rescue a lost diver.

I finally did it - I went snorkling in a drysuit.

I've been wondering for quite awhile how this would go when I finally got to do it. So I borrowed a snorkle, closed the shoulder dump and hopped in. It was just a riot. It was like wearing a lift bag. I felt like one of those silly float markers they use in sailboat races! I wasn't all Michelin Man, but I was pretty Stay-Puft.

Aside from the WWE-esque bloated physique you assume, you're just so floaty... its the best snorkling rig ever. Arnaud's suit has green on the upper torso - so he was doing his best incredible Hulk impression. We were giggling so much, I could hear us chuckling thru the snorkles.

Snorkling in a dry suit. As long as you have no plans to, you know, descend to get a closer look at something, I highly recommend them for silly jellyfish floaty fun.

K

Dude, you always crack me up!

 

[VTernovski]

we did a swimming test for the DIR-F class in a dry suit... that was hilarious... I practically didn't use my feet at all since they were above the surface most of the time... I can only imagine what it would feel like trying to snorkel...

 

[Natasha]

Hillarious! I think it should be a poster center fold PIC for 'Snorkel Now' magazine!

 

[String]

No idea how you managed to sink with no weight. I need at least 6k to get down anywhere at all with my undersuit layers even with no air in the suit.

 

[dweeb]

No idea how you managed to sink with no weight. I need at least 6k to get down anywhere at all with my undersuit layers even with no air in the suit.

First, what was the suit made of. Neoprene, crushed or not, would probably be a problem.

A vulcanized or laminate suit, however, with no air in it, shouldn't be a problem.

How long have you been diving, how much time do you spend swimming, or otherwise in deep water, and what's your % body fat? The first two are factors in what your average lung volume is in the water, and the third is a question of your natural buoyancy.