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Bubble rings.

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cp1204

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I often see "bubble rings" in photo gallery.
Like this.
How can i do them?
 
Hey! There're different ways to do them but all are similar.

To start off with, conditions must be right:

1. The deeper, the better. The more dense the environment is, the better the bubbles stick together. I'd say anywhere from 12 ft. and down is adequate.

2. There must not be much current in the path of the bubble rings, or they will flutter and scatter.

3. Make sure you're used to diving without air, because a lot of air tends to escape at depth when you release it face up.

Now the good stuff:

1. Take your breath and head for the deep!

2. Pick a calm column of water, facing up at the surface.

3. Shape your mouth into a ring

Here's where the schools of practice split:

a. Some people just give a big, single burst of air.

b. Others, including me like to stop our ring-shaped mouths with our tongue tip, and then quickly dart our tongues back, precisely releasing a good-sized volume of air.

The air should leave your mouth's ring-shaped edge and start rolling inwards, on itself. As the air rises and wants to expand, the ring really takes shape.

If I'm just confusing you, forget all that I've told you. There are some other threads regarding the same subject. Search the forums if you're still not certain. Perhaps I can, if someone else does not, make a real picture diagram for ring blowing. I just don't have access to the crystal blue waters that most do.
 
I lie on my back with my mouth praallel with the surface. You have got to be quiet down there or the currents caused by your hands or fins will break things up.
With mouth closed I go "Poof", making an audible noise, using my cheeks to blow out a burst of air. The rest seems to happen by itself.
The way to learn it is to spend some time "playing" in the pool. Don't get too serious or the joy of a good ring will be lost.
You can always tell a good ring by the fact that it slows down and vibrates. it may stay intact until it hits the surface in the best cases.
Howard
 
I've never had one that good. I've only tried it in busy waters.
 
I tried it today - i got only Jellyfish-like bubbles (like umbrellas without stick). No hole in center I tried to dart tongue back and to simply blow air out. But i am ready to experiment furhter...
P.S. I tried at 4-6 meters.
 
what i do to make bubble rings is like a rather forcefull "pauhhhh" if you know what i mean by that. i can make a sound file if you'd like, but at the auhhh part, keep your jaw open, and your lips as small as you can get them.
 
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i use technique b. sinkweight described.

One cool feature with the bubble ring is that the current around the air ring is really strong.
I once did a ring that hit a jellyfish. The ring mantained its perfect shape and the jellyfish was sucked into the ring and was circulating very fast around the one section of the ring and at in the same time got pulled up towards the surface....

Be carefull, bubble rings are very addictive
 
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very good thread, this is!

quote:

"Be carefull, bubble rings are very addictive "

i totally agree.

some more tips:

- doing bubble rings in midwater is extremely difficult, since most likely you are floating about a bit.
- after lying down in the bottom wait a while (10-20 sec maybe) to let the turbulent water above you calm down. that's very important.
- make sure the mouth is at the highest point of the head. a small angle might cause the bubble to be diverted (i.e. at the mask/nose pocket)
- the lip action i find most important (i don't use the tongue at all). monterey jack described it quite well. try making a "plop" kind of sound with your lips only. epiglottis is closed and no air is coming from the lungs. you can try that dry also. it's something like the donkey in shrek2 was doing ("are we there, yet?"...you get the idea)

my best bubble ring ever was a single bubble bubble ring that i launched from 10m and it went to the surface without breaking up.
thinking of it i guess i have to try that again

roland
 
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yeah, its fun, that if you can get good bubble rings, have somebody ealse try to swim through them or dive into them. thats what i did in scuba class because one of the people had somthing with her ear (i think it was a cold or somthing) but she couldnt clear her ear so i blew bubble rings at her
 
They are great fun!! possibly the best!

Once you have mastered the ring with throat closed you can really give it some welly and get really big fat ones by using the lungs too (bit tricky but can be done).

The fatter the bubble ring the more stable and slower it seems to be over a bigger distance and will reach the surface from a reasonable depth. Reaching the surface seems to be getting the right volume for expansion on the way up. deeper = bigger.

As posted, they are incredibly addictive and the quest for a bigger better bubble ring seems to be a never ending challenge!

One other thing... when you get a nice slow fat bubble ring, set off a smaller faster ring immediately after (and another after that if really lucky..only managed three in this way successfully once, but still trying!!!). If you do it quick enough and the right size it will pass through the first shrinking the first again as it passes through it and then expanding itself to the diameter of the first once it is through. If anyone else can do that with the three rings consistently post some footage!! it is a fantastically bizarre thing to watch as they all change sizes and effectively leapfrog each other!! Very VERY still water needed.

Good luck!!

I'm forever blowing bubbles..........oOOOOO

Just a thought..... How about having a bubble ring discipline in competition? Preferably in the deep end whilst the statics are being done in the shallow. It would give people something more interesting to look at than a person face down doing a good impression of a bloated corpse!!
 
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Was out today with a couple of friends doing some rings.

Did some 8-9m deep rings and they grew big enough to swim through, but once we swam threw them they broke, as if we disturbed the current around it

My question is if its possible to swim trough the ring without breaking it, and if so, how big do they have to be(ie how deep do you need to go)?

Yeti: guess ill try one of your freaky bubble ring combos next time
 
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Though I'm not a master of hydrodynamics, it would certainly seem very difficult to swim, or even stay still as the bubble ring rose past you without it losing its integrity eventually. I haven't tried it, really. It's just a theory. On second thought, if the bubble rings were big enough and you had ample clearance, perhaps the ring would not be compelled towards the changing contours of your body. I would think that it would have to be at least 20 or more inches around you.

Again. Theory.
 
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The First Annual Deeper Blue Bubble Ring Cyber Contest.
Rules based on the honor system.
Rules; Count how many successful rings you can blow.
A countable bubble is one which resembles a swirling vortex ring of mercury which rises intact until it breaks on the surface.
Call this event "A" in the Bubble Ring event Pantheon.
More events sure to follow by you other folks with priorities as strange as mine.

As soon as I get a day off I'll report back to announce my first "official" attempt. For this event I'll hijack Matt Bresno's rapid fire mini bubble technigue. Witnessed at Hononau bay a few years back. Matt? Care to weigh in here?
 
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