![]() ![]() What Free Diving should not be confused with is “Snorkeling” as a snorkeler spends their time on the surface of the water looking down onto the reef and they use more common types of gear more like a Scuba Diver might use such as mask, snorkel and fins. In Scuba Diving you are limited by how fast you breath air out of your tank at depth and in Free Diving you are limited by how long you can stay down at depth on a single breath of air. What Free Diving and Scuba Diving have in common is that they both allow you to get down to depth in order to experience sea life closely but what separates them the is how long you can stay down at that depth. ![]() ![]() Though Free Divers do have their own specialized gear they use which I will get into later it is not nearly as much to lug around as a Scuba Diver which allows a Free Diver to more easily access the water from both boat and shore and has more economy to it in that you do not have that extra gear cost etc. You are in fact free of a lot of the heavy gear that scuba divers have to carry in order to dive such as the need to have what’s called “BCDs” that hold the tanks on your back and regulators that attach to the tanks so you can breathe underwater. Basically “Free Diving” is like “Scuba Diving” but without a tank on your back so hence the name. ![]()
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