Re: What is wrong with a snokel I reckon they are great

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Aug 28, 11:03 am, -hh <recscuba_goo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The lesson learned from all of this is that the amount of effort that
>> a floater needs to expend is relatively trivial for a short float, but
>> as the float duration increases, this can lead to rapid fatigue.  For
>> this diver, they "weren't in trouble" until they had sucked their tank
>> dry and had to rely on 'surface supply', which because of the surface
>> conditions, wasn't particularly easy, as the weight of the gear caused
>> a significant lag in the short wave period, so we were literally
>> dunking to the point of 'mask underwater' on nearly every wave pass.
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> I've comfortably been in conditions where swells break over my head
> plenty of times.  The trick is to not breathe when the swell is over
> your head and instead breathe when your nose and/or mouth are out of
> the water.
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> With a normal old-fa****oned snorkel, waves breaking over my head would
> likely tend to flood the snorkel as well, causing me to surely inhale
> water, choke, and drown.  Do you recommend one of the new-fangled "dry
> snorkels" for such extreme activity?

same skill different gear
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