This book is written to help you enjoy the underwater world. You will learn about choosing and using your equipment, being in water as a snorkeler, how to choose your general world snorkel destination, avoiding ocean risks, and most importantly, how to pick your specific location at your destination to begin snorkeling (both risks and opportunities).
The idea initiated from my travels to over 100 countries, where I often observed people trying to snorkel, but for many, many avoidable reasons, were not getting the fantastic enjoyment they should. There are few good resources to help you learn to snorkel and avoid the pitfalls. Now, here within, you have a book that tells you how to avoid the mistakes of others and enjoy something spectacular that I have been enjoying for 50 years.
This book is aimed at adults and teenagers. Children will not understand the complexities of snorkeling on their own reading this book. However, it is a good resource for those that are looking to get their kids into the sport. It is aimed at those that are my adventurous kin. Those that seek adventure underwater, for themselves and families, and perhaps even consider their explorer instinct as a life’s passion.
The book includes tips for the beginner stage but expands to the expert snorkeler. My most common experience of disappointed snorkelers are those that cannot float on water (it takes practice for some), and those that are dealing with a mask that is fogged up (thinking that this condition is “normal,” which of course is easily avoidable, IF YOU KNOW HOW.
Below is a shortened list of the book’s chapters and sub-chapters as a guide to the content.
1.1 World Travel Planning and Questions
1.2 Water Safety, Your Most Important Friend
1.3 Common Sense, Which is Not So Common
1.4 Snokeling Etiquette
1.5 Learning to Snorkel, and/or Learning to Scuba Dive?
2.1 Mental Preparedness
2.2 The Very Important Mask
2.3 Snorkel Tube Characteristics and Purchase Tips
2.4 Fin (or Flipper) Tips
2.5 Wet Suit Tips: to be or not to be, that is The Question
3.1 The Swimming Concern
3.2 How to Learn the Basics of Floating
3.3 Moving Through the Water, or Swimming
3.4 Snorkel Breathing
3.5 Clearing your Snorkel
3.6 The Final Technique: Snorkel Diving Below the Water
4.1 Ocean Currents and Their Attributes
4.2 Wave Attributes and Snorkeling Location
4.3 Tides and their Importance
4.4 Mean Marine Creatures
4.5 Summary on Ocean Risks and Opportunities
5.0 Choosing your Travel Destination
6.0 Choosing your Actual Snorkel Location
6.1 Boat vs. Shore Ingress Locations
6.2 The Boat Snorkel Tour
6.3 Choosing your Shore Ingress Location
7.0 Miscellaneous Tips for a Better Experience
All of the above interest areas, and others, are explored here to the extent that you will be able to enjoy the underwater world for years to come. I hope that you will read this book, but if you decide not to, please educate yourself on how to be safe in the ocean, how to take care of the marine ecosystems, and how to tell others to do the same.
Most of all, this book is about going out into the world and see the wonders. Goof luck to you on your travels!
The idea initiated from my travels to over 100 countries, where I often observed people trying to snorkel, but for many, many avoidable reasons, were not getting the fantastic enjoyment they should. There are few good resources to help you learn to snorkel and avoid the pitfalls. Now, here within, you have a book that tells you how to avoid the mistakes of others and enjoy something spectacular that I have been enjoying for 50 years.
This book is aimed at adults and teenagers. Children will not understand the complexities of snorkeling on their own reading this book. However, it is a good resource for those that are looking to get their kids into the sport. It is aimed at those that are my adventurous kin. Those that seek adventure underwater, for themselves and families, and perhaps even consider their explorer instinct as a life’s passion.
The book includes tips for the beginner stage but expands to the expert snorkeler. My most common experience of disappointed snorkelers are those that cannot float on water (it takes practice for some), and those that are dealing with a mask that is fogged up (thinking that this condition is “normal,” which of course is easily avoidable, IF YOU KNOW HOW.
Below is a shortened list of the book’s chapters and sub-chapters as a guide to the content.
1.1 World Travel Planning and Questions
1.2 Water Safety, Your Most Important Friend
1.3 Common Sense, Which is Not So Common
1.4 Snokeling Etiquette
1.5 Learning to Snorkel, and/or Learning to Scuba Dive?
2.1 Mental Preparedness
2.2 The Very Important Mask
2.3 Snorkel Tube Characteristics and Purchase Tips
2.4 Fin (or Flipper) Tips
2.5 Wet Suit Tips: to be or not to be, that is The Question
3.1 The Swimming Concern
3.2 How to Learn the Basics of Floating
3.3 Moving Through the Water, or Swimming
3.4 Snorkel Breathing
3.5 Clearing your Snorkel
3.6 The Final Technique: Snorkel Diving Below the Water
4.1 Ocean Currents and Their Attributes
4.2 Wave Attributes and Snorkeling Location
4.3 Tides and their Importance
4.4 Mean Marine Creatures
4.5 Summary on Ocean Risks and Opportunities
5.0 Choosing your Travel Destination
6.0 Choosing your Actual Snorkel Location
6.1 Boat vs. Shore Ingress Locations
6.2 The Boat Snorkel Tour
6.3 Choosing your Shore Ingress Location
7.0 Miscellaneous Tips for a Better Experience
All of the above interest areas, and others, are explored here to the extent that you will be able to enjoy the underwater world for years to come. I hope that you will read this book, but if you decide not to, please educate yourself on how to be safe in the ocean, how to take care of the marine ecosystems, and how to tell others to do the same.
Most of all, this book is about going out into the world and see the wonders. Goof luck to you on your travels!
