Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!hogg From: hogg@utcsri.UUCP (John Hogg) Newsgroups: net.rec.scuba Subject: Re: Snorkels Message-ID: <1576@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 09:19:55 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.1576 Posted: Thu Oct 31 09:19:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:01:52 EST References: <12000005@uiucdcs> <1572@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: hogg@utcsri.UUCP (John Hogg) Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 14 Summary: Another method of reducing dead-air space is adopted by the more macho members of our underwater hockey league: they saw off their snorkels, so that the end is at head-top level or below. The reason for this modification is actually to reduce drag; a few leather-lungs types do without a snorkel entirely. Ya gotta be tough. Unfortunately, this has limited applicability to open-water diving. Manufacturers design snorkels to keep the majority of wave-tops out of the end, and expect their users to object to breathing water. -- John Hogg Computer Systems Research Institute, UofT {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!hogg