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Water Print Reversible Strap Cover for Scuba or Snorkel Mask Sale Price: $8.95  |
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This Neoprene Strap Cover simply slips over your existing strap. Dual Colors, One on each side. |
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Windjammer Dive Mask Sale Price: $24.99 |
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Full size swim mask(Goggles) or snorkeling mask designed for fun in the swimming pool, or serious diving expeditions.Tri-view wraparound style swim mask provides a full underwater view in all directions. |
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Bubble Print Reversible Strap Cover for Scuba or Snorkel Mask Sale Price: $8.95 |
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This Neoprene Strap Cover simply slips over your existing strap. Dual Colors, One on each side. |
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Decorated Mouse Pad with fish, mask, animal, snorkel, snorkeling Sale Price: $9.95 |
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Professional "Brite White" fabric mouse pads are among the most versatile and durable, providing brilliant graphic reproduction for spot color or full color imprints. This durable polyester surface is above industry standards and provides a superior product value overall... |
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JAWS Spit Antifog Spray Scuba Mask Defogger List Price: $8.95 Sale Price: $4.95 |
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Spit Spray Antifog works on anything that fogs including dive masks, swim goggles, paintball masks, sport goggles, ski goggles, eyewear, windows, binoculars, scopes & more! Apply wet or dry - spit gel is so thick it can even be applied underwater! Spit Antifog... |
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500 PSI Dive Mask Anti Fog Solution List Price: $6.95 Sale Price: $4.95 |
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One of the top finishers five years ago in Rodales Scuba Lab Testers Choice, this defogger was also a top finisher in recent 2002 tests. The bluish gel is similar to toothpaste and is designed to be applied either wet or dry... |
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Tilos Titanica Wide View Single Lens Camo Non-Purge Mask List Price: $42.52 Sale Price: $39.99 |
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Tilos Titanica Wide View Single Lens Camo Non-Purge Mask. Enlarged single lens wide view mask. Reduced volume design. Tempered glass lens. Soft hypo-allergic silicone skirt and strap. Quick-release buckles... |
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Sea Window Explorer snorkeling raft Sale Price: $29.99 |
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Exclusively at iSnorkel.com! The Sea Window's patented design using Aqua-optics is an advancement in underwater viewing that improves that of a mask. All the problems and discomforts associated with mask and snorkel use are eliminated... |
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SCUBA DIVER 22" x 65" -Rear Window Graphic- diving truck decal suv Sale Price: $79.99 |
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Dimensions: 22"x65" This See Through Window film allows you to customize the rear window of your vehicle. Graphics are visible from the outside and see thru from the inside. All images are printed using outdoor top quality UV inks, which provide long term durability... |
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SCUBA DIVER-16"x54"- Rear Window Graphic- diving compact p/u truck Sale Price: $74.99 |
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Dimensions: 16"x54" This See Through Window film allows you to customize the rear window of your vehicle. Graphics are visible from the outside and see thru from the inside. All images are printed using outdoor top quality UV inks, which provide long term durability... |
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GSI Super Quality Secure Underwater Swimming Goggles with Built-In Digital 2.0 MP Camera/Camcorder - Anti-Fog Tempered Glass Mask with Breathing Tube - Internal 4 GB Memory - USB Interface - For Scuba, Diving, Snorkeling and All Water Activities List Price: $349.99 Sale Price: $179.99 |
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A dream Come True for the Water Sports Lover! This summer season, GSI is launching the newest HD Camera-Camcorder that will work Underwater and Capture your Precious Moments Forever. Amazing Technology allows you to Activate the Camera by simply applying a Magnetic Finger Ring (Supplied in Box) to the designated spots on the Goggles In the Water... |
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Scuba Diving - A Beginners Guide to Everything Scuba - Discover Mysteries of the Deep Sea List Price: $1.98 |
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Scuba Diving – The very name invokes images of cool, crystal-clear water and ocean breezes.Imagine life traveling the seas, searching for the wildlife that lives within the great oceans of the world... |
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Your Guide To Scuba Diving - Our Most Unexplored Frontier! List Price: $4.21 |
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The Ocean - Our Most Unexplored Frontier!Just as in outer space, there is a whole environment, or ecosystem, under the waters that cover 75% of our planet, with 70% of our planet being ocean waters.Beneath those waters there really is an entirely new world - a world full of beauty and mystery that few humans have the opportunity to experience... |
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Diving Equipment: Sonar, Scuba Set, Snorkeling, Aqua-Lung, Diving Mask, Rebreather, Dry Suit, Diving Cylinder, Diving Regulator, Wetsuit List Price: $14.14 Sale Price: $14.14 |
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How far underwater can you swim with just a snorkeling mask?
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This has got me thinking as I have never done it before. This is with no air tanks so just the mask and snorkel by its self.
Can you just swim under the surface of the water or can you go deeper?
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You can dive under water with a snorkel to a limit your trained for or comfortable with. I free dive to 30 or so feet and in my spear fishing days free dove to 50 plus feet. No big deal.
Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras in January 2000 set a "no limits" free dive world record to 531.5 feet. But keep in mind he's one of a kind and his super cool wife recently died going after his record, a sad loss, she reached 558 feet in training and was awarded the world record as a posthumous honor.
Shallow water black out is the number one killer and of the 5000 plus free divers about 100 or so die each year. So do not go farther then your comfort zone, read and understand the physics and gas laws behind free diving and start off slow and clear your ears.
Snorkeling Is Easy And So Much Fun
Snorkeling is a great sport for almost anyone who can swim. I am not a strong swimmer, and I started snorkeling fairly late in life. It's an undemanding sport with enormous rewards. Best of all, Silver Sands Jamaica provides a variety of snorkeling experiences for the novice as well as the more advanced snorkeler. Just off shore is a small discontinuous coral reef, and further off shore but easily accessible by boat (or by swimming but why waste your energy getting there?) is a larger more continuous reef.
Snorkeling equipment consists of face mask, snorkel, and flippers. While your pleasure at pursuing any sport is directly related to the quality of your equipment, never was that more true than in the case of snorkeling equipment. A leaky or improperly fitting mask or a leaky snorkel means that you spend all your time treading water vainly adjusting your equipment rather than looking at the fish. If you're near sighted or don't wear your contact lenses in the water (which you are not supposed to do, but my daughters always have and it's never been a problem), you'll be happier if you purchase a face mask with your subscription in it. If you are just a bit nearsighted you probably won't have a problem because water magnifies, but if you have much of a prescription, order a customized mask (which may take up to 6 weeks, so don't try to make this a last minute purchase). They are surprisingly cheap considering what normal glasses cost and make all the difference.
Seven or eight in the morning is a great time to snorkel because it is usually calm then, and you don't have to worry about sunburn on your back and arms. Also you can snorkel, take a shower, have a luscious breakfast in your Jamaica villa, and have the rest of the day for whatever else you choose to do. If the sea is calm enough, you can snorkel anytime, but later in the day you must protect yourself from sunburn with a lot of lotion and/or a tee shirt.
It is very easy to simply walk into the Caribbean Sea from the shore and casually snorkel for as long you wish. The "startup costs" only involve putting on your snorkeling equipment and a pair of beach shoes, modified flippers, or regular flippers (in which case you have to walk in backwards to make any progress).
Never touch the coral. Besides the fact that you'll damage the ecology of the area by doing that, you could get stung or have a piece of coral embedded in you. Don't go close to or among the coral until you've learned how to handle your body in the buoyant salt water, and keep your distance particularly when it is rough.
Never snorkel alone. It is so easy to swim in salt water and the whole experience is so enthralling and benign, after a time or two, it is easy to lose your natural sense of caution. Make it a never-to-be-broken rule to never snorkel alone.
Wear a life jacket if you're going some place you haven't gone before, or if it is rough, or if you just want to be a bit lazy and not have to move to stay in place.
Never touch or provoke the fish or other animals.
Fire coral, spiny fish, anything really ugly. If it's really ugly or has spiky things coming out of it, stay away. Without exception, none of the sea creatures is eager to take a "fish" of your size on. They will only attack if you mess with them or corner them.
There are some little things that look like jelly fish (transparent) but they do not have tentacles and don't sting. There are very occasional jelly fish, mostly when the water gets warmer, but they are very rare. You just have to be careful to stay away from tentacles, and leave the area. With all the snorkeling I've done I've never been stung.
Snorkeling while staying in our Jamaica Villas is definitely a must-do activity, and Silver Sands Villas provides snorkeling right off the Silver Sands Beach.
About the Author
Sandy Summer is a travel writer specializing in Jamaica Accommodation Rentals, and dedicated to providing information on quality accommodation in Jamaica villas, cottages, and apartments by the sea.
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