Today is the day I prepare for my mom and sister's visit. I'm straightening all the books, arranging the movies, hiding the my video games section so it doesn't 'disappear' after my mom sees them ;-), vacuum the floor, clean up papers, collapse cardboard boxes for storage, arrange my dresser surface, and make sure all my clothes are properly folded. In short - everything I should have done for myself already! Except for the hiding of the computer games.
I went snorkelling for four hours today (2000 Calories), and I was pleasantly shocked and surprised to see snorkelling on the shapefit.com site I mentioned yesterday. You know it has everything when it has a listing for horse grooming. Let's see... pogo stick... pogo stick... pogo stick... no. Doesn't have quite everything. Maybe I'll E-mail and request to have it added.
I tried out a new snorkel today. I bought the snorkel so my sister would have something to use when we go swimming. The new snorkel has a feature where a tab will keep water from coming in once I enter the water. The only problems with that feature is that as I go 30, 50 feet down, the water is trying to press into the snorkel and the only flexible entrance to the snorkel is my mouth. So as I go down, I not only need to equalize pressure in my mask to prevent mask squeeze, I also need to equalize the pressure in the snorkel to prevent, ah, snorkel squeeze? The short story? The new snorkel removes useful air from my lungs to use in the snorkel. Fortunately, after my intake of air going down, I can just remove the snorkel from my mouth and not worry about it. Problem solved!
2 comments:
Just out of curiosity, why use a snorkel if you're diving down? I think it would be easier to not have it. When you need a breath, just pop your head up above water and breath for a while instead of arranging your snorkel and breathing through a tube.
Good question. In many cases, such as the first breath after coming up from a dive, it is quite easy to push the snorkel out of the mouth and breath.
When trying to get my breath back and preparing for the next dives, even the slight work of keeping my head above water is noticeable when preparing for a dive. I never quite feel prepared unless I completely relax while prepping. Just speaking from personal experience, preparing for a dive while moving slightly cuts the dive by... 10 seconds.
It's a surprising diving difference for such a small action. I may just need to get into better shape if I want to do "fancy" stuff like looking around while preparing. :-)
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