jlovold
Contributor
A snorkel is a great tool for snorkeling.
For diving it´s just not needed.
Wearing a snorkel on your mask is just plain dangerous. It is dangerous because it makes it a lot easier to lose your mask due to a inadverted kick from your buddy, a line, donating a longhose. Yes you may have thought out how to donate in a slow, controlled manner, but that doesn´t help your buddy who needs air right now, and yanks the reg out of your mouth, removing your mask in the process. Not exactly ideal, not being able to see much while having an air-starved half-panicked buddy clinging to you...
The only time you need a snorkel while scubadiving is when you attend to a PADI-course, and even then it´s not required that you wear it on your mask. You can just as well keep it in a pocket.
For diving it´s just not needed.
Wearing a snorkel on your mask is just plain dangerous. It is dangerous because it makes it a lot easier to lose your mask due to a inadverted kick from your buddy, a line, donating a longhose. Yes you may have thought out how to donate in a slow, controlled manner, but that doesn´t help your buddy who needs air right now, and yanks the reg out of your mouth, removing your mask in the process. Not exactly ideal, not being able to see much while having an air-starved half-panicked buddy clinging to you...
The only time you need a snorkel while scubadiving is when you attend to a PADI-course, and even then it´s not required that you wear it on your mask. You can just as well keep it in a pocket.