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***caveseeker7*** · 25th January 2006, 13:30

Intresting experiment, Mike.

CO2 buildup being the trigger for your nasal breathing seems like a reasonable conclusion.
Both deadspace and WOB should be factors, as well as your excertion of course.
Next time you snorkel exhale through your nose to eliminate rebreathing.
Would be intresting to see how much of a difference that will make.

For some odd reason I've always done that when snorkeling, before I ever heard the term hypercapnia. Probably because bubbles seemed more like diving when I was a kid. Don't remember ever having a CO2 problem or hycap symptoms, though in the last 20 years I've only snorkeled once or twice.

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*caveseeker7* Who loves ya, baby Current Rebreather/s: Sport Kiss Other Rebreather/s: Prism Topaz Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Too far from Neverland Posts: 5,412	Re: nose breathing, and overbreathing snorkles Intresting experiment, Mike. CO2 buildup being the trigger for your nasal breathing seems like a reasonable conclusion. Both deadspace and WOB should be factors, as well as your excertion of course. Next time you snorkel exhale through your nose to eliminate rebreathing. Would be intresting to see how much of a difference that will make. For some odd reason I've always done that when snorkeling, before I ever heard the term hypercapnia. Probably because bubbles seemed more like diving when I was a kid. Don't remember ever having a CO2 problem or hycap symptoms, though in the last 20 years I've only snorkeled once or twice. __________________ Cheers Stefan "Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.'!"
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