sports

[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?

Cover image via imgur.com

This company created a snorkel mask that they call the 'Easybreath Snorkel Mask'

Easybreath snorkelling mask

Image via coolthings.com

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.

coolthings.com

This snorkelling gear promises land-like breathing underwater

Snorkelling mask by Tribod.

Image via tribord.com

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

Easybreath snorkel mask.

Image via gifsforum.com

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.uk

The 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.uk

Goggles used with traditional snorkels can cut off peripheral vision, but Easybreath’s design allows the user to see a much wider view.

dailymail.co.uk

When snorkelling...

1. Many find breathing through the mouth unnatural

2. The snorkel mouthpiece is sometimes considered too intrusive and uncomfortable

Gif for illustration purposes only.

Image via YouTube 'GoPro HERO3+ Black: Snorkeling - Kona, Hawaii'

3. Sharing snorkelling mouth pieces may be unhygienic

Gif for illustration purposes only.

Image via YouTube 'GoPro HERO3+ Black: Snorkeling - Kona, Hawaii'

Watch how this snorkelling mask helps you see and breathe underwater, FULL VIDEO:

Easybreath mask.

Image via gifsforum.com

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.

tribord.com
Unsupported video platform

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.uk

The device relies on "future" batteries with 30 times the capacity of current batteries, Yeon said.

huffingtonpost.co.uk

However, online news aggregator and blog Huffington Post thinks "it's not going to happen".

huffingtonpost.co.uk

A more radical design was recently unveiled by a South Korean designer Korea which claims to instantly transform the user into a human fish.

Image via dailymail.co.uk

Triton designed by Jeabyun Yeon.

Image via yankodesign.com

Triton, designed by Jeabyun Yeon.

Image via yankodesign.com

The triton.

Image via yankodesign.com

ALSO ON SAYS: Meet The Happiest Animal On Earth, Quokka

You may be interested in: