[PHOTOS] How To Snorkel By Breathing Through Your Nose
Have you ever wondered what snorkelling would be like if you could breathe through your nose?
By Melody Oei — 20 Feb 2014, 04:35 PM — Updated about 10 years ago
This company created a snorkel mask that they call the 'Easybreath Snorkel Mask'
Designed by Tribord, the EasyBreath Snorkeling Mask gives users a 180-degree field of vision, ensuring they enjoy an unobstructed view of the sights in the water.
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Rather than covering the user's eyes with goggles, and then using a separate tube for breathing through the mouth, Easybreath covers the WHOLE FACE
The system makes sure that the moist air exhaled is quickly removed and provides the added benefit that the mask, according to its French makers Triboard, will never fog up.
dailymail.co.ukThe snorkel tube, which stays above water and releases the exhaled breaths, also features a special valve that seals the tube when the mask is completely submerged.
dailymail.co.ukGoggles used with traditional snorkels can cut off peripheral vision, but Easybreath’s design allows the user to see a much wider view.
dailymail.co.uk1. Many find breathing through the mouth unnatural
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Image via YouTube 'GoPro HD: Shark Riders - Introducing GoPro's New Dive Housing'2. The snorkel mouthpiece is sometimes considered too intrusive and uncomfortable
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Image via YouTube 'GoPro HERO3+ Black: Snorkeling - Kona, Hawaii'3. Sharing snorkelling mouth pieces may be unhygienic
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Image via YouTube 'GoPro HERO3+ Black: Snorkeling - Kona, Hawaii'Watch how this snorkelling mask helps you see and breathe underwater, FULL VIDEO:
Not much information is available as far as where these will be sold, but Triboard did announce a €39.95 (US$54.64) price tag for when it launches later this year.
In another attempt to redesign the snorkel mask, a South Korean designer unveiled a mask which claims to "instantly transform the user into a human fish
The mask, dubbed Triton, acts like a fish gill to extract oxygen from water so that the user can keep on breathing while under the sea.
dailymail.co.ukThe device relies on "future" batteries with 30 times the capacity of current batteries, Yeon said.
However, online news aggregator and blog Huffington Post thinks "it's not going to happen".
A more radical design was recently unveiled by a South Korean designer Korea which claims to instantly transform the user into a human fish.
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