I recently purchased a full face snorkel mask, and action camera from Amazon. I tried them for the first time at Lake Erie, a couple days ago. I’ve only used the traditional snorkel that you stuck in your mouth. I’ve never felt like I could breathe very well and a lot of times I would get water down the snorkel.
The full face mask was better, I could even dive under the water and fully submerge the mask without water getting in the intake valve, but it did leak slightly around my forehead. There was a lot of pressure on my face when I dove under the water. My boyfriend’s mask didn’t leak at all and when we switched he didn’t have any problems. It must be the shape of my face. I still feel like I can’t breathe very well in it and had to take it off a lot, but I think I’ll adjust to it. I haven’t don’t much snorkeling in my life and need to get used to it.
I like the camera a lot. It has a case for under water, which prevents any sound coming through, but I’m okay with that. The water was too murky to be able to test it properly, but from what it did catch, I think it did pretty good. The mask has an attachment on the breathing tube for the camera and it attached easily. The whole breathing tube nozzle came off and I am so lucky I noticed it (that’s when you get the butt shot of my boyfriend). I will check to make sure the nozzle is attached properly next time and see if it happens again.
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