Adult Front Snorkel - Over-the-Head Swim Snorkel with Splash Guard, for Surface Snorkeling

Name: Adult Front Snorkel - Over-the-Head Swim Snorkel with Splash Guard, for Surface Snorkeling
Brand: Gear Elevation
SKU: K13N5KTFQR
Price: 56.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

★★★★★ 4.8/5 • ✓ Verified

We have 0+ Happy customers

£56.00

£56.00 ~~£111.00~~

SAVE 49% Sold out

24 people are viewing this right now

Product variants

BUNDLE & SAVE

Buy 1 You save £55

£56 £111

Buy 2 You save £110

£112 £222

Buy 3 You save £165

£168 £333

add_shopping_cart

Ordered

local_shipping

- - -

Order Ready

redeem

- - -

Adult Front Snorkel - Over-the-Head Swim Snorkel with Splash Guard, for Surface Snorkeling

£56.00

£56.00 ~~£111.00~~

SAVE 49% Sold out

It goes over your head, not beside it

This is a front snorkel. It is a flattened U of white tube that arcs over the top of your head, held on by its own flat perforated strap and a ratchet buckle. The mouthpiece comes down to your mouth at the front. The two open tips stand up above the back of your head.

Nothing clips to your mask. That is the practical difference: the tube is not hanging off your mask strap where it can drag the seal, and it stays where you put it when you turn your head. It also means the two intakes are higher and further back than a side tube sitting beside your ear, which is where most surface chop finds you.

If you were expecting a conventional straight snorkel that clips to a mask, this is not that. Look at the shape before you buy.

White and blue adult front snorkel on a white background, showing the U-shaped arms, the two upright tips and the perforated head strap

Read this if you were buying it to freedive with

This page used to say the snorkel suited freediving preparation, and the title said freediving too. Both were wrong, and if you bought it for that, we owe you a straight answer rather than a quiet deletion.

Freedivers are taught to take the snorkel out of the mouth before they descend, and to breathe on the surface with the face clear after they come up. That is a safety practice, not a preference. A snorkel left in the mouth on a dive is a snorkel in the mouth if anything goes wrong, and it is one more thing a buddy has to pull off a face.

This snorkel is the hardest possible kind to do that with. It straps over your head, so you cannot spit it out and let it dangle on a clip - it comes off as a whole assembly, over the top of your head, past your mask. It also holds two columns of air rather than one, and trapped air wants to go up exactly when you are trying to go down.

So: if you want to dive down, buy a plain flexible J-tube with a quick-release mask clip, which is what freedivers actually use. If you want to float on the surface with your face in the water and look at things, that is what this is for, and it is good at it.

The guard on the intake, described honestly

There is a molded housing over the intake with a fine honeycomb of small holes through it. It is a splash guard. It breaks up water thrown at the opening by small waves, by your own wake and by whoever is kicking past you, and it keeps a fair amount of that out of the tube.

It is not a sealing dry valve. A dry top is a float that rises and shuts the tube when the snorkel goes under. This has no float and does not seal - you can see straight through the grille. The old title on this page claimed both a splash guard and a top dry valve; there is one mechanism here, and it is the first one.

Practically, that means water gets in sometimes. Lift your face, blow the tube clear, and go again. Get used to doing it somewhere you can stand up.

Close view of the blue front housing of the snorkel showing the honeycomb grille of small holes, resting on a wet pool deck

Getting it on and getting it right

The strap is a flat length of perforated silicone running between the two arms, with a black ratchet buckle on it. You set it once, on dry land, with the arms sitting along the sides of your head above your ears and the mouthpiece reaching your mouth without stretching your neck.

Then put your mask on as normal. The snorkel does not thread through a mask strap and does not need to, so you are free to wear whatever mask or goggles already fit you.

A woman standing in waist-deep water reaching up with one hand to adjust the white perforated head strap of the front snorkel sitting over the top of her head

Where it belongs

Face down at the surface, over a reef, over a seagrass bed, along a rope in a bay, up and down a lane. Anywhere you want to keep your face in the water and keep breathing without lifting your head every few strokes.

Snorkel with someone. Watch the conditions and the current. A snorkel does not make you a stronger swimmer and it does not make cold water warmer.

A swimmer floating face down at the surface of clear tropical water wearing the white and blue front snorkel over the head, with both tips well clear of the water

The details

TypeAdult front snorkel - over-the-head, with its own head strap. Does not clip to a mask

IntakePerforated splash guard over the opening. No float, no sealing dry valve

StrapFlat perforated silicone strap with a ratchet buckle

MouthpieceSoft molded bite mouthpiece at the front of the frame

MaterialThe maker states silicone without a breakdown. From the product photography the arms are rigid plastic and the strap, mouthpiece and side panels are the soft parts. We have not had a unit tested

ColorWhite with blue

SizeNot published. The only figure on the old spec sheet was a 10 x 10 x 10 cm box, which is a shipping carton and not the snorkel

UseSurface snorkeling and surface swimming

Not forFreediving, duck-diving, descending, or any use below the surface. Not scuba equipment

In the boxOne snorkel. No mask, no fins, no bag

Who it is for

Surface snorkelers who are tired of a tube dragging on a mask strap, and lap swimmers who want to keep their head still and their face down. It suits people who already own a mask they like.

It is not for freedivers, not for spearfishing, not for anyone who wants to duck under and look at something closer, and not for children. If any of those is what you came for, this is the wrong snorkel and we would rather tell you now.