Quick and Easy Beginner Snorkeling Tips

Thinking about donning a mask and snorkeling but not sure where to start? Do you want to sneak a peek into the underwater world not sure if scuba diving will be your thing?

Snorkeling is one of the most loved watersports around the world. It’s an amazing experience and a must-do activity for people to try at least once in their lives. For many non-diving travelers who are visiting tropical destinations like Mexico or Hawaii, snorkeling is the next best thing as it requires little equipment, a few instructions, and as long as you can swim, is simple to do.

What is Snorkeling

Armed with a mask, snorkel and sometimes fins, snorkeling is a water activity that involves swimming along the surface of the water with your face submerged underwater enjoying the world below. It is fun, does not require any special training and pending the location and conditions almost anyone can do it.

People often confuse snorkeling with scuba diving, and while modern scuba grew from snorkeling and skin diving, the two have some sizable differences. In snorkeling, you remain at the water’s surface with limited equipment breathing air from a snorkel tube. Scuba diving allows you to descend beneath the sea with more equipment, including a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus allowing divers to transport compressed air with them at depth.

Equipment Requirements

In order to be able to snorkel, a few key pieces of equipment are required. Namely a mask, snorkel, and fins (optional).

A diving mask is the most essential piece of snorkeling equipment. It is your window to the underwater world. Dive masks encapsulate the eyes and nose, ensuring that a snorkeler can focus and see the wonderful life under the waves.

A snorkel is an elongated cylindrical tube used to help you breathe while your face is submerged underwater. It prevents a snorkeler from constantly needing to lift their head up and out of the water to breathe. The mouthpiece, at one of the snorkels, is designed to be gripped and clenched between a snorkeler’s teeth and the opposing end is curved, extending above the surface of the water. Some snorkels are specialized so that they can prevent water from getting in under wavy conditions, others have purge valves below the mouthpiece assisting in clearing remnant water from the bottom of the tube.

Fins are an optional piece of snorkeling equipment that will help make a snorkeler’s in-water experience easier and safer. Fins act by elongating the foot with their extended surface area, giving snorkelers more force on the water per kick. This allows snorkelers to swim faster and further with less effort than would be needed simply by kicking barefoot.

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