Would you use a white snorkel?

no

I like the clear snorkels. I know they don't do shit in terms of visibility lol.

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I like the clear snorkels. I know they don't do shit in terms of visibility lol.

Clear snorkels r nice cause you can tell when the funk starts to grow inside. Hau taught me that

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Are you saying you don't like to lick the green stuff from the inside of your mouth piece during those long boring aspettos?

Ahhh u should have mentioned that as a way to relax in fatty alaskas thread

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Clear snorkels r nice cause you can tell when the funk starts to grow inside. Hau taught me that

Being somewhat of a country assed biologist, algae culturing shrimp farmer hillbilly....diver.....I would guess that the clearness of the snorkel is the reason for the green funk. A black snorkel will have little to no light penetration and therefore, no chance for photosynthesis....making the green funk. and actually, this would probably apply to white ones too.

Cut open your favorite old black snorkel? Hau and Steve seem to have confirmed the existence of green slime in a clear one. Scrape the inside of the black one and see what's there. Do you have a microscope? Check what's living in both. You may get fungus or bacteria growing in the black one. ...things that don't need light.

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Very interesting theory Hank. How can we test this?

Cap and fill a clear snorkel and black, leave in sunlight for a few days.

This is not meant as a derail from using a white snorkel.
I use a clear snorkel because:
1. Clear is (IMO) THE best UW camo (I use clear snorkel, clear FG fin blades, clear float line, etc)
2. You can see when there is stuff growing on the inside of the snorkel that can cause a spearo to get respiratory problems. (how many of you clean out the inside of your snorkel?)
3. You can see that cockroach hiding inside your snorkel BEFORE you put your snorkel in your mouth. :@

IMO, there is a much much better way to locating your dive buddy and SAVING him from a SWB. So as to not cause any more of a derail from Dan's white snorkel question, I will start a new thread about this method, called: SWB Float

Yes. Even after labor day.:laughing:

Black snorkels won't grow algae but you can get mold if they are dry when they get put away.

I always wash my snorkel after a day out and hang it dry at the mouth piece.

Ummmmm seriously who cares? Maybe it's a climate thing (us being tropical) but I have my entire life seen charter operations with literally hundreds of sets of gear and myself personally just freshwater rinse and store without ever thinking about it, and never a whiff of a problem (pun intended)

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Ummmmm seriously who cares? Maybe it's a climate thing (us being tropical) but I have my entire life seen charter operations with literally hundreds of sets of gear and myself personally just freshwater rinse and store without ever thinking about it, and never a whiff of a problem (pun intended)

hah I wish I had a camera yesterday. DuQuesnay's snorkel has a clear mouth piece and 4 inches of clear tubing It's probably as old as many of he posters here. Looks nasty. haha But he's healthy.