Snorkels

I want to buy body boarding fins, water shoes, & Snorkeling gear.

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I am an okay swimmer but I’ve gone snorkelling a few times and can stay in the water for hours with fins and a Snorkel. I have a strong kick with fins. I’ve only heard about rip currents on TV but should I be concerned even if I’m wearing fins and a snorkel or will I be alright?

Like many things, it depends.

It depends on how strong the rip current is. It depends if you are right in the middle of it where it is the strongest, or on the edges where it is a bit weaker.

As others have stated, it is better just to swim parallel to shore until you are out of the rip current, then swim in to shore.

OK, so I am going to get SCUBA certified but I need fins! I have Snorkeling Fins, but obviously those won’t work. I would like full foot fins, I don’t want to have to buy the boots, too, and I will probably use them more for Snorkeling than diving…. my question is how can you tell the difference between SCUBA and snorkeling full foot fins? also does anyone know any good places to buy them online? Thanks
also, if anyone could recommend a exact fin I should use I would greatly appriciate it!
well i would just buy them at the store i will be taking my class at, but they are soo expensive and i’ve looked up a few online that are more in the $30-50 range instead of $80-130 range

Go to your dive shop where your taking your certification class. Ask them about the different types, and then TRY those types out during your OW certification class.

This will tell you what YOU like, and not what a bunch of strangers think you should get.

The more comfortable you are in your fins, the longer you’ll be diving!

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Of course whith a scuba gear or Snorkeling, mask, fins and so on, but in an open water?

ive dove 85 feet with my gear but i cant go deeper rite now im only 13

Following a school of blue tangs. Sorry I lost my camera for a few seconds.

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Saw a lobster among other things on this outing at Fisherman’s Cove in Laguna Beach

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…with your Snorkel fins and mask packed?
lmc1: You are right…what was I thinking? We can buy some crap there.

no time to pack..let’s go ; )

Right at the end of the reef at Fins and Flipers. A beautiful place to be!

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I’m a guy, not a lady. I plan to wear a sarong, a t-shirt and kukui nut necklace my entire visit with board shorts underneath for hitting the waves, with Teva sandals?

What do you do with your sandals while you’re Snorkeling? Where do you get those surf shoes that you can wear with your swim fins and avoid burning your feet?

Guys wear sarongs in Hawaii too. You might want to leave the Tevas in the car or room. Get a cheap pair of rubber slippers to go to the beach if you plan on leaving them to go snorkeling. Any ABC store or grocery store sells them. Longs Drugs…WalMart, etc…
Buy surf shoes at any store that sells snorkeling/scuba gear…Sports Authority has them. Lot of surfs shops carry it.
Keep safe and have a fun trip!