OK...how many of you have done this?

[Dr. Jay]

Just went snorkeling today in the local no-diving allowed springs....with my cool dry snorkel and cool jet fins !

Sank down to about 12-15 ft....looked at some rocks and little fishies...and started thinking...sure is nice and calm down here....no little kids screaming and kicking me from above...inflatable tubes bashing into my head....and then....like a reflex....

SLLUUURRPPP....COUGH COUGH....GURGLE GURGLE....

Quick...ascend to the surface you idiot! You don't have a tank strapped to your back and you tried to take a breath....FROM YOUR SNORKEL!!!

Well, like a kid putting his fingers in an electric socket, it only happend once.

Is there some sort of club I should join or what ?

 

[Spectre]

Just about every time I jump in the water with a snorkle on, I get to depth and take a breath...

"Something in my mouth, that means I can breathe".

Yea... happens all the time.

 

[scuberd]

I hate when that happens. I have to constantly think: don't breathe, there is no air, don't breathe...

 

[FallenMatt]

.. I guess that's why i leave my snorkell on the shore as often as i can... the damn thingy dangling on the side of my head is annoying by itself

But on the topic of diving in springs... last time i went snorkeling in Crystal River (before the main dive of the day) i discovered that a person with two piece 3 mm wet suit and no weights have err... problems staying underwater ... gotta have my tank and BC :-D

 

[CTurtle]

Thought I was the only one...
Happens to me EVERY time I snorkel!! Think next time I decide to go in the water without a tank on my back, I'll write "DON'T BREATHE" really big on the back of my hand..you know, a little cheat sheet like I used way back in high school.

 

[Walter]

Sounds like lots of folks haven't had much training in skin diving. I find this concept very difficult to grasp. Skin diving is so vastly different from SCUBA that I don't understand how anyone could confuse them. OTOH, I learned skin diving prior to learning (although in the same class) SCUBA, so maybe that is the difference.

 

[metridium]

I was skindiving decades before taking up scuba, though I do so very rarely now in comparison to scuba. While I've never done what the original poster mentioned, I now feel the need to remind myself not to breathe on breath-hold dives.

 

[Genesis]

Yeah...

Its one of those "side effects" of scuba I think....

The last time I snorkeled with my daughter I damn near scored an "own goal" that way.... she loves to swim around with a snorkel and see the fishies over by the jetties...

Anyway, we were there, dove down a few feet to look at some fishies with her, was hanging down there for a few seconds looking, got "lost" in the moment and inhaled! :wacko:

Heh - that reg is breathing REAL wet!

 

[landlocked]

Dry Snorkel! I love mine.

 

[detroit diver]

Dr. Jay once bubbled...
Just went snorkeling today in the local no-diving allowed springs....with my cool dry snorkel and cool jet fins !

Sank down to about 12-15 ft....looked at some rocks and little fishies...and started thinking...sure is nice and calm down here....no little kids screaming and kicking me from above...inflatable tubes bashing into my head....and then....like a reflex....

SLLUUURRPPP....COUGH COUGH....GURGLE GURGLE....

Quick...ascend to the surface you idiot! You don't have a tank strapped to your back and you tried to take a breath....FROM YOUR SNORKEL!!!

Well, like a kid putting his fingers in an electric socket, it only happend once.

Is there some sort of club I should join or what ?

How did you suck water with a dry snorkel??:wacko: