Front snorkels

[subaquaticus]

Who uses a front snorkel while freediving ?

if you do DNF or CNF, you tend to use :

. a nose-clip

. swim goggles

if you want to relax before a dive and without a cable, you need a snorkel... and you cannot use a lateral (normal( scuba diving snorkel...

 

[DeepThought]

Why can't I use a normal snorkel if I dive without a line?

 

[subaquaticus]

Why can't I use a normal snorkel if I dive without a line?

With a nose-clip + swim goggles, a lateral snorkel is not very handy, is it ?

Where would you bind your "normal" snorkel ?

 

[DeepThought]

Never tried wearing a snorkel with goggles.
maybe try adding another strap.

 

[subaquaticus]

Never tried wearing a snorkel with goggles.
maybe try adding another strap.

if you take off your fins, you will take off your mask and put a nose-clip instead ; then you put goggles... and then a front snorkel....

with no fins you cannot do Valsalva with a mask since you need both your arms to drag you downwards...

 

[DeepThought]

Some can do valsava with a mask bwteen strokes but 10q for that explanation, I would've been lost without it.

 

[subaquaticus]

Some can do valsava with a mask between strokes

I tried in Nice in May.... and I f... up my ears ! that's why I carefully studied the idea of Valsalva with the nose-clip...

of course you need a paradisia !

 

[immerlustig]

i guess i'm a bit slow, but where's the problem with a normal snorkel? don't you leave it on the surface anyway?? if not, then why not stick it under the goggle-strap like with a normal mask? where's the benefit of the frontal snorkel, other than it usually has it's own strap? and why can't you equalise when diving without fins? surely it needs a bit of timing and noseclip would be preferable, but it's not that complicated i think to develop some timing/rhythm.adn if you dive with a nose-clip why don't you do the frenzel equalisation?

sorry, maybe something obvious escapes me, or i just had too long a day...(diving, diving, diving)

roland