Tag: swimming

Best Snorkel

Hey everyone! Welcome to Water Tip Wednesday! I’m Jackie Troller with Oceantroller snorkeling and freediving, providing you with a tip on how to pick the right snorkel.

Should your snorkel have a splash guard? Nope. Should your snorkel have a flex tube? Nope. Should your snorkel have a swivel? Nope. Should your snorkel have a dry valve? Nope. Should your snorkel be simple? Yup! Everybody’s got choices. My choice is to KISS – keep it simple… silly. You don’t want to buy a snorkel with all these bells and whistles. In my opinion, they’re just fail points that are going to eventually get water in your snorkel anyway. The trick to keeping water out of your snorkel is how to clear your snorkel, which we covered in last week’s episode. When looking for a proper snorkel look for a simple “J” snorkel, without the bells and whistles. That’s your water tip for this week.

Never dive alone. Oceantroller out.

Freediving lava tube

Lava Tubing

Super fun day with some friends out in the water! Nothing like freediving through some old lava tubes. Mask got a little foggy or dare I say “voggy” 😂 but a great time nonetheless.

The Science of Freediving ThinkTech Hawaii

For my birthday, I had the pleasure of discussing Freediving on ThinkTech Hawaii! My first ad-libbing experience in a studio was a blast (despite a few minor faux pas).😉 😁

Basic Freediver

Basic Freediver: Learn to safely advance your breath hold and test your limits up to 20m/66 feet. This 2.5 day course teaches you several techniques that will greatly improve your confidence in the water.

INCLUDES

  • personalized instruction from highly trained PFI Instructors
  • 1 instructor/assistant: 6 student divers’ ratio
  • PFI Freediver Manual
  • confined water and classroom sessions
  • open water instruction
  • GoPro video performance review
  • certification card

EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

  • mask (low volume preferred)
  • snorkel
  • weight belt and weights (rubber preferred)
  • fins (long fins preferred)
  • 3mm wetsuit (open cell preferred)

SCHEDULE

Day 1:  Classroom 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Day 2: Class 8:30am – 11:30am; Confined water 1:00pm – 5:00pm

Day 3: Ocean 8:30am – 2:00pm

Departure

Freedivers dive deep to see how majestic the view under the ocean. This is how freedivers dive in one breath.