Even though I scuba dive more frequently than I snorkel, I often find snorkeling to be relaxing and as enjoying as an actual dive. It’s amazing at what you can see just a few yards off shore and bobbling on top of the water just waiting to snorkel down and explore. The difference between diving in snorkeling is obviously the breathing system. Scuba divers use a steel or titanium tank that holds all the air for their dive where as snorkelers just have a simple snorkel that they can dive down and resurface for as long as they would like to.  The Aeris Cuda Dry Snorkel, is a marvelous snorkel in that the mouth piece is very comfortable, purging is easy and it has high resistance to flooding. However because of its design, sometimes there is air flow restriction which defeats the purpose.
Mouth Piece:
            An annoyance about a regulator for a scuba diver is the size. I mean its not terrible and most divers wouldn’t complain but in comparison to the Aeris Cuda Dry Snorkel, it’s a pain in the butt. The mouth piece on the Aeris snorkel is easy fitting and the gel like material around the mouth piece are firm yet comfortable and I have not yet had any problem with having it hurt or fall out.
Purge:
            Its inevitable that when a snorkeler goes down their snorkel will get water inside it and as they resurface for more air they have to forcefully exhale to push out the remaining fluid. Anyone who has snorkeled before must have an experience where on a particular purge something went wrong and so cam a mouth full of sea water- if not teach me your ways.  But I haven’t had that problem with the Aeris snorkel and it seems like the developers at Aeris had their fair share of guzzling sea water because I have yet to find a snorkel that purges as well, easy and as fully as this one does.
Flood Resistance:
            I still remember my first snorkel. It was Lime-green plastic piece of stone-age beauty. It was no more than a freaking plastic pipe that every wave that went over it shot a tube full of water into my mouth. Aeris has strayed away from that archaic technology and embraced a new design that helps prevent flooding. At the top of this snorkel is this mechanical cutoff valve that is designed to close if a wave crashes over it or you dive down. It is so much more flood resistance than that old hard bendy straw I first had and yet this one is as sleek and as colorful as its predecessor.
Design:
            The flood resistant valve is a definite bonus however it is a major drawback as well. I have noticed that if my breathing rate increases because I swam faster or harder or for whatever reason, the valve seems to stick. Furthermore, it does do greatly at preventing water from rushing in but it often strikes at very inopportune moments which can be really annoying.

Recommended: Yes