Snorkeling Tips

How far you can go underwater when you’re snorkelling depends on a few factors. The first of these factors is how long you can hold your breath for. The longer you can hold your breath, the deeper you can go. The second factor governing how deep you can go underwater when you’re snorkelling is your ears. As you dive down below the surface the water pressure increases. As a result of this increased water pressure, your ears will need to be equalised. If you’re not able to equalise the pressure in your ears as you dive down, this will limit how far underwater you can go. A third factor about how far underwater you can go is your mindset. Not everyone has the confidence to dive down deep and it can take time to master this and to build up the necessary confidence.

There are three types of snorkel: These include the wet snorkel. With this snorkel, water can easily enter the top of the snorkel tube if submerged underwater either accidentally at the surface or when diving down. The Semi-Dry snorkel has a splash guard to help prevent water entering accidentally at the surface. But the tube on this type of snorkel will still fill with water when you dive down; Then there’s the dry snorkel. The Dry Snorkel is designed with a float valve. It is this valve that prevents water from entering either accidentally at the surface or when you dive down. Also, it is the seal of your lips around the mouthpiece on all these snorkel types that keeps the water out when snorkeling.

Whether or not it’s better to snorkel at high tide or low tide is debatable. There are pros vs cons for both. At high tide the water visibility tends to be better, but the water may be too deep to see the bottom. But at low tide the visibility may be worse, but the water is shallower and shallow pools are uncovered This makes it easier to look for sea creatures on the bottom. However, there will be an opportunity to see different sea creatures at high tide vs low tide, as each tidal range is suitable for different fish and other creatures.