ScubaMarc
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I should have mentioned this in the last post. I got a collapsible snokle and place it in my pocket.
Who Wears A Snorkel When Diving ?
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a tube shaped device used by swimmers to breath from the surface... carried by scuba divers for no good reason at all... also called head bangers, de-Maskers and mouth piece imitators.
I snorkeled for 30 years before taking up SCUBA and feel naked without one. One thing that constantly surprises me is the large number of divers that dont feel comfortable using a snorkel. Its one thing to know how to use a snorkel and its another to be comfortable using one. By comfortable I mean realizing subconsciously when the snorkel has water in it and having the ability to clear without even thinking about it. In fact I get so relaxed with the snorkel that I tend to start descents with it still in my mouth, but if your comfortable with a snorkel thats not really an issue because you can switch to either reg in stride. I feel that when youre in the water, unless your talking you should have either a reg or a snorkel in your mouth. But I can also see that it would make sense to stow it if you were in a situation with an entanglement hazard.
Mike
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miked
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Add another to the "in the pocket" crowd.
Whether to wear one while u/w seems like a question of training, and personal preference.
I carry a (foldable) snorkel in my BC pocket. Then,"just in case" it is needed, I have it. Haven't needed it yet.
OTOH, when I "go snorkeling", I use a "regular" snorkel.
Take care,
Miked
Whether to wear one while u/w seems like a question of training, and personal preference.
I carry a (foldable) snorkel in my BC pocket. Then,"just in case" it is needed, I have it. Haven't needed it yet.
OTOH, when I "go snorkeling", I use a "regular" snorkel.
Take care,
Miked
DivePartner1
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After I got tired of having my snorkel get tangled in my gear (not paying attention to what I was doing?), I starting diving with a collapsable that I kept in my pocketl. When I needed it, I could usually get it in play--but not always, particularly in rougher seas when I needed it most (bobbing in the ocean, waiting for the boat to see this drift dive is over. By the way, where IS the boat? Where did these waves come from?).
When I did my rescue course I started using at real snorkel again and returned to the faith for two reasons:
1. I snorkle daily in my pool this time of year. It's good excerise, and it's more fun cleaning the thing with a net and mask than with the plumbing (the underwater thing, you know). And doing a lot of snorkeling even in calm waters, I get a good sense of the flimsy unreliability of the collapsables compared to the purge models. Real snorkels are fun and reliable. Collapsables can be work (flood, choke, gasp).
2. More important: This is SAFETY equipment. Why cut corners?
Of course you don't swim backwards with a snorkel, but when you need it, say in the ocean or the great lakes or even when tired in a quarry, I'll use a snorkel, preferably a good one, and hang it where the experience of generations of divers says it should be. Like most safety equipment in most dangerous tasks, there's a reason this is done this way.
When I did my rescue course I started using at real snorkel again and returned to the faith for two reasons:
1. I snorkle daily in my pool this time of year. It's good excerise, and it's more fun cleaning the thing with a net and mask than with the plumbing (the underwater thing, you know). And doing a lot of snorkeling even in calm waters, I get a good sense of the flimsy unreliability of the collapsables compared to the purge models. Real snorkels are fun and reliable. Collapsables can be work (flood, choke, gasp).
2. More important: This is SAFETY equipment. Why cut corners?
Of course you don't swim backwards with a snorkel, but when you need it, say in the ocean or the great lakes or even when tired in a quarry, I'll use a snorkel, preferably a good one, and hang it where the experience of generations of divers says it should be. Like most safety equipment in most dangerous tasks, there's a reason this is done this way.
100days-a-year
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What?Me get in the water without my "surface redundant breathing device".Not that I use it more than a few seconds to a minute per dive.It's just that not having one when I do want one is such a drag.As far as what others do on my boat, that's thier "personal preference'.... snicker.The only time I don't want one is anytime I'll be overhead or doing long deco as by that time it really does become more of a PITA.
Burke
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I just have to throw my 2 cents in here.
Every time I read the title to this post I hear it in a Jerry Seinfeld voice, you know, the way he ask rhetorical questions, "who wears a snorkel when scuba diving? I mean come on, who are these people, are they snorkeling or are they scuba diving, they don't know" I will admit that I carry one (in between the tank and wing, a little slot that looks like it was made for it) but I hardly ever use it and couldn't imagine having the thing strapped to my mask for the whole dive.
Every time I read the title to this post I hear it in a Jerry Seinfeld voice, you know, the way he ask rhetorical questions, "who wears a snorkel when scuba diving? I mean come on, who are these people, are they snorkeling or are they scuba diving, they don't know" I will admit that I carry one (in between the tank and wing, a little slot that looks like it was made for it) but I hardly ever use it and couldn't imagine having the thing strapped to my mask for the whole dive.
wannabe
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Ever since I lost mine (and subsequently found it by dumb luck on the same dive) it remains at the bottom of my gear bag. I have always done surface swims on my back so I never used the stupid thing. Not once have I felt I was missing out and have had my fair share of wind blown chop to deal with on the surface as we get back into the boat.
Besides you should have 500psi left when all is said and done right?
Besides you should have 500psi left when all is said and done right?
btw... does anyone know where *500 psi* comes from?
Following up on Uncle Pug, a dive buddy of mine defines a snorkel as a "tubular annoyance".
Regarding the 500 psi question, I'll take a shot. Isn't that about where the old J-valves started to breathe hard? Does it have something to do with that?
Regarding the 500 psi question, I'll take a shot. Isn't that about where the old J-valves started to breathe hard? Does it have something to do with that?
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