Nakupenda island beach & sandbank tours

Ideal to go early morning, when the weather is chilly with less crowd

SAFETY
Learn How to Get Water out of Your Mask: Your mask shouldn’t fill up with water if you get the right size. However, if this does happen, lift your head out of the water and lift the bottom of your mask to drain the water. You can also get water out of your mask while you’re still underwater. Lift the bottom of your mask away from your face and blow out there your nose. Then quickly adjust your mask so it’s back in the right place.

Learn How to Defog Your Mask If your mask fogs up, you’ll have trouble seeing the ocean life below you, which defeats the purpose. You can buy defogging gels designed for snorkels.

You don’t breathe underwater – Many people assume the snorkel allows you to breathe underwater, but this isn’t the case.A human body averages 6 liters per breath and the snorkel volume is a lot lower and isn’t compressed air. When you see a snorkeler underwater they are by default, holding their breath.

COOL SNORKELING FACTS
How it started?
Whether it was curiosity, exploration, or more effective hunting there is evidence that snorkeling dates back many millennia BC.
Apparently the farmers in the Mediterranean around 3000 years BC have left evidence that they collected sea sponges. Although a study has confirmed that sea sponges were collected going back much further, to 5000 BC.So no-one can quite pinpoint when it might have started.

Snorkeling Gets You Active
When you snorkel, you will also be swimming or floating in the water. This means not only is snorkeling fun, it will also use all your major muscle groups. Snorkeling is a super fun way to get active, increase your strength, and improve your endurance.

You Don’t Need Special Training
Snorkeling is a fun and active way to be in water, and one of the coolest things about it is you don’t have to be specially trained or certified in it, like you would to scuba dive. This makes it an activity all ages and abilities can try.

Swimming Isn’t Necessary
You can use floatation devices if swimming isn’t something you’re great at. Snorkeling does not require a participant to be a great swimmer, but it can definitely help make the experience more fun. Most snorkeling companies, like Cancun Snorkeling, have snorkelers using a life vest while in the water just to be safe.

No dive required
Despite the number of pictures of snorkelers gliding beneath the waves, it isn’t actually necessary for snorkeling. A beginner specifically can be happy snorkeling and gliding across the water’s surface.

You can snorkel when it rains
Contrary to opinion it is entirely possible to snorkel in the rain. Many breathing tubes come with splash guards on them that angle and channel the water away from the tube. While it doesn’t eliminate the problem of water entering the tube it does maintain an airway. A purge valve on the bend will allow exhalation to ‘blow’ the water back out into the sea.