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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Jammer wrote: > >1) Entering and exitng through surf, depending on conditions. > >2) Long surface swims from shore to the drop site - especially when > >navating by following the reef. > >3) Anchor dives with nobody in the boat (incase the anchor breaks). > > Usually I don't disagree with someone as laid back as you or Dude, > Richard, but why use a snorkle for these? I see no reason to use a > snorkle instead of the primary in any of these situations. The reason for the snorkle in surf is mostly for the case where we take gear through the surf in stages. The surf is sometimes too formidible to go through with tank on back, cameras, nets, etc. etc. Remeber, I'm not talking about beach surf - I'm talking about surf breaking over a shallow spur & groove reef. The snokel makes it much easier to get the gear through in several stages, so you don't need the tanks on you back for each pass. The same is true coming home. The reasons for the snorkle on long surface swims while navigation on the reef and for chasing down a drifting boat are obvious to anyone with any real experience in open-water diving. For those of you on the list who continue to maintain that there is "never" a reason to carry a snorkle on a "serious" dive, I should caution you that you are only revealing how limited your open-water diving experience really is. Aloha, Rich
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