Coldwater_Canuck
Contributor
I use mine since I prefer swimming forwards with my face in the water to swimming on my back to get to the descent point.
However, I ignored PADI's "left-side" rule. Unfortunately if you have a newer style snorkel that goes straight when not in use, the soft bottom part feels way too much like your inflator hose, and I kept grabbing the snorkel by mistake under water. PADI's left side reasoning is so you don't use your snorkel instead of the reg:I don't see this as an issue however. I've descended with a snorkel in my mouth, but the side of the face was irrelevant to doing this, and underwater your reg is never going to be anywhere near your snorkel mouthpiece if it falls out of your mouth anyways.
However, I ignored PADI's "left-side" rule. Unfortunately if you have a newer style snorkel that goes straight when not in use, the soft bottom part feels way too much like your inflator hose, and I kept grabbing the snorkel by mistake under water. PADI's left side reasoning is so you don't use your snorkel instead of the reg:I don't see this as an issue however. I've descended with a snorkel in my mouth, but the side of the face was irrelevant to doing this, and underwater your reg is never going to be anywhere near your snorkel mouthpiece if it falls out of your mouth anyways.