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Summary: Learn how to be aware of your surrounding conditions in the water while snorkeling in this free video.
Ray Temeyer (and his wife, Jeanie) have been running snorkeling, sailing, and scuba diving charters out of Miami and the Bahamas for the last 27 years. Valerie Kevorkian is the owner...read more
" On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Raymond Temeyer with Lost Island Voyages, and we also have with us Valerie Kevorkian from Tarpoon Lagoon Dive Center in Miami Beach. We’re going to talk about snorkeling today and all the opportunities that it provides. Another aspect of snorkeling safety is to be very much aware of your surrounding conditions. Some areas may be restricted due to manatees or other sensitive marine areas that might contain sea turtles or things like that. So you need to be very aware of your surroundings and what the conditions are. You need to be aware of areas might have some surf of some high waves, which you have to be concerned about. One of the big concerns along our beaches are rip currents. Rip currents are formed when on shore wind and waves build up water along the beach. Eventually, this water has to escape, and it will pick an area of least resistance and flow back out into the ocean. If you get caught in one of these areas where there is rip current, sometimes the current is too strong for you to swim against. If that’s the case, don’t panic, relax, swim parallel to shore even though you’re being carried out to sea, it will get your out of the rip current. If you spend too much time fighting the rip current, you’ll just tire yourself out. So once again, swim parallel to shore, wait until you get out of the current, and then slowly and in a relaxed fashion swim back into shore. "
eHow Article: Surrounding Conditions: Snorkeling Tips