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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 09:19:55 1985
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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
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