SCUBA Diving/snorkelling

Was looking at stuff for Diving last night and came across this.

medidive.delvtech.com/produ...

I think that is amazing! the regulator is still in production but they have snorkels!

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Until, I got worse I was a keen SCUBA diver, both off the UK and in warmer waters. I had at the time mild asthma and needed if in the UK a certificate to say I was fit to dive and could only dive on air but that was OK I was quite happy with that. The thought of being several meters down and getting wheezy scared me silly but I knew at the 1s sign of trouble to start heading up, I would never have used or relied on a puffer built into a regulator. SCUBA diving is extremely dangerous the worst thing you can do down there is panic. Knowing your limits and sticking to them is important. You would need to have 2 regulators and your buddy would need one too cos they do jam and you do have to swap over in the water! I can imagine how panicked I would be if the thing failed to go off sorry but some things just don't go together and SCUBA diving and anything but the mildest asthma (where you should not need a built in inhaler) are 2 of them.

Snorkelling well frankly can't you just get your inhaler out a bag around your neck tread water and use it. Do you really need a special snorkel?

In a spooky and slightly related side issue last night I dreamt I was on a film set that was under the water in a huge tank and I was most miffed cos I could not go down and see the set properly cos asthmatics and diving don't go. On the last day the crew Dr got hold of some special air/O2 tanks so I could dive down and walk around the set. Weird that SCUBA diving came up on here the morning after dreaming that.

Bex