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Freedive training CMAS

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Is it safe to freedive with a snorkel in a mouth?

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HMAN

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Hello, guys

I am from Norway, and here in Norway they are using CMAS rules for freediving.

I go twice a week to freediving classes in our 5m depth pool.
I was having a discussion with our CMAS freediving instructor, because i was telling to him, that to teach to freedive with snorkel in a mouth is not very safe, but instructor insisted that it is totaly safe and everyone from CMAS is freediving with snorkel at any depths.

As a proof, he showed to me picture of CMAS rules book, it was three freedivers underwater with snorkels in a mouth

What is your opinion guys? Maybe i can give some proof to my instructor that this practice is not so very safe?
 
Small point, ask your instructor to try mouth to mouth resuscitation when casualty is unconscious with snorkel in the mouth. Seconds matter when saving lives and there's a few wasted trying to remove snorkel.

It's also very very hard to hook breath upon surfacing with a snorkel in your mouth.

need we go on....
 
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It is totaly safe? OK, but I am sure You can be more safe and dive without a snorkel.
Recovery breathing is easier without a snorkel.
 
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Personnaly I've been freediving with snorkel since years, and without any training or course. Descend to 20-25m. Never encounterd any problem with that.
Yet I'm no expert
 
All the above and add that keeping the snorkel in mouth while diving does not allow you to totally relax your mouth/jaw.
This even though it is not a key for performance it is a detail that most divers forget.

I would also add that if you are to the limit and emerge with the snorkel in mouth you have to push hard to throw out the water from the tube. This could lead to a BO because small water remains in the tube and you breathe up water on first breath, you cough and cannot get a good recovery breath. This happened to a friend in a pool, and he didn't even have the snorkel, just a little splash from the neighbor lane.....

My 2 cents.

Emile
 
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