Hi everyone, to be honest I'm not much of a freediver but I love snorkeling...
Right now I'm preparing to move to South East Asia and I've have been on a shopping spree to find the best snorkel before I go.
So far I tried these 3 snorkels:
Beuchat Activa Tubair
Aqua Lung Impulse 3
Cressi Alpha Ultra Dry
The Beuchat and Aqua Lung are both great. The Beuchat feels lightweight and the mouthpiece fits well and feels very low profile.
The Cressi however is terrible. It feels like a toy out of the water and in the water. The worst is the mouthpiece, it's very uncomfortable. The snorkel keeper comes off way to easy also and the dry valve on top got stuck on me once. The airflow that the tube allows is also kind of restricted.
The Aqua Lung is bulky compared to the Beuchat, but I still like it a lot. Its advantage is that it can handle any splash water around you. It works very well for that... Aside from testing it in the pool I also tested it in the shower with the tube directly under the shower hose - not a single drop of water reached my mouthpiece or the purge area, which really impressed me.
The only downside of the Aqua Lung (as compared to dry snorkels that close at the top) is that you have to save a puff of breath to purge the water out upon reaching the surface, since it does partly fill up with water when you dive below the surface.
Hence my question:
What are good quality dry snorkels that work well and have a system that closes at the top?
I would like to try to find a good snorkel that works that way too, then with experience I can make up my mind about which kind of snorkel I like best.
Right now I'm preparing to move to South East Asia and I've have been on a shopping spree to find the best snorkel before I go.
So far I tried these 3 snorkels:
Beuchat Activa Tubair
Aqua Lung Impulse 3
Cressi Alpha Ultra Dry
The Beuchat and Aqua Lung are both great. The Beuchat feels lightweight and the mouthpiece fits well and feels very low profile.
The Cressi however is terrible. It feels like a toy out of the water and in the water. The worst is the mouthpiece, it's very uncomfortable. The snorkel keeper comes off way to easy also and the dry valve on top got stuck on me once. The airflow that the tube allows is also kind of restricted.
The Aqua Lung is bulky compared to the Beuchat, but I still like it a lot. Its advantage is that it can handle any splash water around you. It works very well for that... Aside from testing it in the pool I also tested it in the shower with the tube directly under the shower hose - not a single drop of water reached my mouthpiece or the purge area, which really impressed me.
The only downside of the Aqua Lung (as compared to dry snorkels that close at the top) is that you have to save a puff of breath to purge the water out upon reaching the surface, since it does partly fill up with water when you dive below the surface.
Hence my question:
What are good quality dry snorkels that work well and have a system that closes at the top?
I would like to try to find a good snorkel that works that way too, then with experience I can make up my mind about which kind of snorkel I like best.
