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

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mrsierraleone007 - 6 years ago

Snorkeling sucks

flagface4 - 9 years ago

my dog is humping me

Mayhem - 9 years ago

Filmed on a potato

Mayhem - 9 years ago

+Agahnim Your The One Thats Stupid, You're Arguing With a 12 Year-Old who made a joke

Mayhem - 9 years ago

+Agahnim Dude I was Being Fucking Sarcastic so STFU

Mayhem - 9 years ago

+Agahnim Dude Have You Heard of Sarcasm

Mayhem - 9 years ago

+Agahnim yup but they still had good quality cameras then (Sort of)

Barez_b - 10 years ago

When I equalise on this way, my ears hurt... It's the same feeling of having an ear infection.. my ears are cracking and I fright that something is wrong and i go back ... :( Can somone explain this or help me out with this? thanks

BriBoy Vidz - 7 years ago

Barez_b don't do what that guy said do the frenzel method or the same method but yawning too

Mordecai Mike - 11 years ago

Thank you so much for this I could not figure out why my ears were hurting so much. I just moved close to the beach about a week ago, falling in love with snorkeling.

Freediver Youbuur - 11 years ago

i just did a video guide on "how to hold your breath longer". So if you like to know how you can do it, check out my youtube channel. great video by the way!

Noah Nikolausson - 11 years ago

omg! :0

Gopro3UK - 11 years ago

I'm going to Turkey in a couple of weeks to do lots of sailing/filming. I would like to dive not very deep, 8-12 Meters (snorkeling) but Im worried about my ears popping when deep underwater and damaging them. can someone let me know when to clear my ears above or under the water and how long i should do it for and how long I could spend under water before my ears pop. Any comments would be great and if you want to see how my diving and sailing goes, check out my channel in a few weeks, thanks!

Bob BIJU - 11 years ago

when i dive and the pressure builds in my ears and i use the nose thing it makes my ears feel like they are going to blow my eardrums, do i just give more pressure or?

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Nanna - 11 years ago

Did it work out ok?

Jim Goldsmith - 12 years ago

with equalising ears you can just make a yawning motion with you jaw, wiggle your jaw from side to side, swallowing, or by holding your nose

ser pin - 12 years ago

doesn't make sense!!

sum41Rck - 12 years ago

you know i'm no expert but wouldn't blowing air out of the mask just to equalize your ears be wastefull of oxygen?

tbunch2112 - 13 years ago

@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.

Twinkie Lord - 13 years ago

@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

Freediver HD - 13 years ago

@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.

Tarzan! - 13 years ago

@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.

fatfist - 13 years ago

@jeffdon4 Because once you submerge, the pressure of the water (even at say, 5 ft) will push your eardrums in (concave). This makes it much harder now to push them out and straighten them for equalization. But if you do it at the surface, your eardrums will be pushed out (convex), and as you descend, the pressure will push them inwards to straighten them, but you continue to equalize by pushing them out every 5 ft or so.

Jeff Don - 13 years ago

@fatfist i never knew that. I always did it when i went down. why do you do it at the surface?

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Antony George - 13 years ago

he forgot to tell you what to do with mouth pieice when going down

lOverbOytx1 - 13 years ago

blowing through your ears will only relive the pressure for a short distance like 2 metre! Won't work if you diving further down! Pressure is to strong! Unless you can continuosly blow air through your ears!

fatfist - 13 years ago

Equalization must be performed at the surface, BEFORE even starting your descent. Then at every 5 ft intervals as you go deeper. People wrongly assume that is should be done when they start to feel pressure. By then it's way too late!

Chelsey Johnson - 13 years ago

Yeah don't forget to purge the snorkel.... n00bs.

4fifty8 - 13 years ago

@Zachry86 that's why you don't learn from the internet! go do a course

H Hernz - 13 years ago

fail cause he have snorkel but he go underwater he might don't have air

mtniiranen - 14 years ago

Iv done this now for one summer (changed from scuba to apnea) and can go below 20m. Its lots of fun but seems that things come only after practicing, practicing and practicing.

Gary Williams - 14 years ago

can they be used for snorkeling /

Joe Dickinson - 14 years ago

do ear plugs relive the pressure ... ? cuz im going on holidy tuesday too tenerife and am going snorkeling and i brought some ear plugs so does it relive the pressure cuz thats the only reason i broght them tbh

trakkaton - 14 years ago

@mrcookie75 Swallowing and shifting your lower jaw in front can help. Start as early as you can, when you don't even feel the pressure yet. Practise on land. If all doesn't help see a ENT doc.

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Matt Do - 14 years ago

how do i equalize? i keep trying but i cant. i think im just scared

WanderLust - 14 years ago

@tbunch2112 o.O oww xD

snigel4321 - 14 years ago

Get an underwater camera, seriously

grimofhell - 14 years ago

lol with the snorkel on, that won't help much xD almost suicide where i do free diving. Imagine getting getting middle ear barotrauma over 50ft; a beginner might go on shock caused by the intense pain and might drown if not aided immediately. I take this problem very seriously, so... expert village is...more like noob village.

zeuserx - 14 years ago

@bestabac Try the Frenzel maneuver (read wikipedia), it uses up less air and is better suited for deeper dives. What's show in this video is the Valsalva maneuver, which is still good at shallower depths but please... get the snorkel out of your mouth. Expert village screwed up on this one!!!!

Akueikyo - 14 years ago

One of the best advices I got was to run and do exercise without breathing so you can make your muscles and body work in an anaerobic environment (which means without air). The more you practice this, the less tired you will get when diving, and of course, less oxygen consumption.

zeuserx - 14 years ago

Nope! It's called equalizing.

zeuserx - 14 years ago

learn about freediving and the various techniques we use. A lot is just practice and there's plenty of technique involved. Take up yoga as well. The more relaxed you are, the less air you'll use up. Champion freedivers all do Yoga.

zeuserx - 14 years ago

Very dangerous. There are several equalisation techniques you can use. This one is the simplest but not the best (it uses up too much air).

zeuserx - 14 years ago

EXPERT VILLAGE SUCKS! you don't equalize with the snorkel in your mouth dumbasses!!! I'm a freediver and snorkel quite a bit. you just don't equalize this way... PERIOD! This is the 3rd "EXPERT VILLAGE" video I've seen where they get it all wrong!

223o - 14 years ago

i spearfish most days, will my breathe holding increase if i keep doing dives that push my limits or is there another exersize so that i can go deeper?

Jorge Riglos - 15 years ago

yes its dangerous if you dont clear the pressure. you can burst your eardrum which obviously isnt good. dive safe

metabolife - 15 years ago

it's really all you need unless you're fishing

Zachry86 - 15 years ago

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"

Lehmann Peters - 15 years ago

What an awful surface dive! You have to fold over more quickly and a greater length of your legs will be in the air and drive you down more quickly.

Dave Webber - 15 years ago

i have a perforated ear drum i can tell you this aint gona work

arseniy0410 - 15 years ago

amateur - stick your feet in the air LMAO lol Ben half man half fish only piece i wear is small goggles to see NOTHING ELSE

orcanjus - 16 years ago

I people are learning f@#$?n nothing, WHY WAYTCH? I only need sound on this computer, and I'm good. See ya soon!

Ariq Asham - 16 years ago

looooserrr

tbunch2112 - 16 years ago

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.

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Tomo Vukasović - 16 years ago

Ben sucks. That is not how you start your dive from the surface.

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