In a scuba diving vs. snorkeling contest, which sport wins? I choose both sports but find myself always preferring to scuba dive over snorkeling…I’m a diver at heart and snorkeling just doesn’t give the fun and adrenaline rush that scuba diving does.

Let’s compare, shall we:

Activities like scuba diving and snorkelling are fun and adventurous underwater activities that enable you to explore and admire marine life's excellence—but they greatly vary in how they allow you to do it. Common knowledge tells us that snorkeling involves a mask and tube while scuba diving needs a more complicated set of things, which includes an autonomous breathing gas equipment.

Snorkeling is an great activity for a beach rest. It is not costly and does not need a certification. It’s available to anyone; non-swimmers can enjoy it with life vests, kids, and more. Snorkeling enables you to enjoy the marine world from the outside of the water and diving down while keeping your breath to get a closer look.

Scuba diving is a sport that needs a certification, good shape and it is more expensive than snorkeling. There is much more effort involved to become a scuba diver; you have to maintain equipment, fitness and certifications.

This may sound too complicated to snorkelers but I’m here to tell you that you have to should give scuba diving a try. If you like snorkeling you will surely fall in love with scuba diving.

It may seem that breathing on the surface with a snorkel is easier than dealing with diving equipment, but it is surprising how much more comfortable breathing through a regulator can be. While snorkeling it can be very frustrating to deal with waves or splashes going into the snorkel and into your mouth. While diving you don’t must to battle this problem.

Scuba diving provides you the feeling not of seeing the marine life, but of being a part of it. You can go more distant and stay underwater for more continued since you don’t have to hold your breath, unlike snorkeling. Scuba diving makes you so much closer to the underwater environment and its individual and diverse collection of interesting sea animals.

Extra confidence in the battle of scuba diving vs. snorkeling: meeting fellow divers. While on a diving trip, you will meet somebody with the same interests, which can blossom into lifetime friendships, taking you on diving adventures with diving friends around the world. Diving makes you enjoy the ocean even more and will take you in contact with people who can teach you about fragile underwater environments and the importance of preserving them.

Dangers and Risks

Snorkeling is almost safe and risk-free — the only real risk is if you end up going in the way of motor-driven boats and jet skis as they may not be able to find your snorkel from afar. But there’s also the danger of cuts and scrapes from stones and corals, jellyfish stings, and other potential injuries from underwater life sorts.

You can also get sunburned from snorkeling for long terms near the surface of the sea, although this can be stopped by applying the appropriate amount of sun protectant and by using a rash guardor wetsuit with UV protection.

Conversely, scuba diving can proceed with some very real risks and dangers if not done correctly. Many would be shocked to find out that scuba can still be dangerous even when diving in the safest seas. There’s a chance of equipment malfunction, resulting in decompression sickness or even drowning; nitrogen narcosis or oxygen toxicity, which can occur when you dive at depths higher than 100 feet; or pneumonic embolism from the improper ascent. Also, there are all the natural dangers like run-ins with sea creatures and ships.

There’s more than one difference among snorkeling and scuba diving. You need to analyze many factors, from how healthy you are to how involved you need to get. Scuba diving not only needs training but it’s also far costlier than snorkeling. On the opposite side, snorkeling doesn’t really let you to explore as much of the vast sea as you may want to. In the end, there’s no winner or loser – you simply should choose what suits you best.