Welcome to Water Tip Wednesday. I’m Jackie Troller with Oceantroller Snorkeling and Freediving providing you with a simple tip on how to clear your snorkel.

Now that you know the difference between chest breathing and belly breathing, to clear your snorkel use a sharp short exhale from your chest. Place your tongue behind your teeth like you’re saying two… or like you’re about to hock a loogie. Put it all together come behind your teeth – with that sharp short exhale and that’s the general idea of how you clear a snorkel. If you get a little bit of water in your snorkel and it makes a gurgling sound you still may be able to get little sips of air by filtering the air out with your tongue carefully and slowly so that you can get enough of an inhale to create that sharp exhale to clean your snorkel.

Try not to shoot your friends in the face as you’re clearing your snorkel. That’s your tip for this week. Stay safe everyone.

Oceantroller out.