Snorkeling Techniques & Tips : Free-Diving Tips & Techniques for Beginners

Learn different free-diving tips and techniques for beginning snorkelers in this free video.

Expert: Ray Temeyer & Valerie Kevorkian
Contact: www.lostislandvoyages.com
Bio: Ray Temeyer (and his wife, Jeanie) have been running snorkeling, sailing, and scuba diving charters out of Miami and the Bahamas for the last 27 years.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• snorkeling
• snorkeling equipment
• snorkeling fins

[tbunch2112]

Earplugs can't be used for diving. If they actually manage to keep the water pressure out they will create an unequalized air cavity. Either the plug will be pulled into your ear canal causing injury our your tympanic membrane will blow out.

[Zachry86]

I think its bad that they have no warning that most/many of the accidents of damage to the eardrum is done by ear clearing like that. Not by the dive. Be careful when you clear your ears. Do it "slowly"

[MegaRocketLaunch]

lol kevorkian!!! hes an assited suicidal person... but hes in jail!!

[talormade360]

No need to hold your nose, just click your ears internally.

[WillBeSubscribing]

Recorded with a cucumber

[tbunch2112]

@liz2porter I'm on about the commenter saying you should use earplugs instead of equalizing. I realize the diver in the video is smarter than that.

[TheNewTwinkieLord]

@joseph14295 i scuba dive so what i usually do might be a little harder for you, depends on what youre, but what tarzan said is true but sometimes i that wont work for me, all i do is look up and try and clear my ears, idk why it works but i just look up at the surface and clear them, maybe because im stretching my neck muscles or something and it allows the ears to relax, all i know it feels fucking great to finally get that sweet feeling after they clear

[mrmups]

Search Dr Kay - Divers Ear He explains the Frenzel Method of equalisation. very efficient

[Born2Die83]

@joseph14295 2 tTry decending slower. Also try doing shallow dives, equalise at a shallow depth, then return to the surface. Then do the dive again, but now try and go half a meter deeper, keep repeating until you are comfortable. For me, before i can free diver deep (for me deep is like... 10 meters) it would take me about 30 mins or more of adjusting to the pressure at shallower depths, 3 meters, 5 meters, 6 meters, etc.

[joseph14295]

@Tarzan07330 thanks 

[Tarzan07330]

@joseph14295 if you have any mucous build up at all, you will not be able to equalize your ears...at least safely. this may be a reason why you can't. you may want to try mixing different techniques to equalize. swallowing, wiggling your jaw, blowing through your pinched nose. all are acceptable. just like "unplugging" your ears when you go up and down in elevation in a car or plane.