Would this work?

[happy happy happy]

I have personally used such of a device .The hard part getting it in time ,rushing water it is hard to keep in mouth ,without nose plugs it is not easy to breath through along hose .My one cent on this I'am alive .Thanks to cool heads (SWR ON TOP). BTW I perfected my roll by taping a hose to the hull of my yak,put on nose plugs ,goggles,mouth piece in roll over blow hard to clear hose .Relax ,breath,look around crazy hang time . DO NOT TRY this ALONE !!!!!!!MY first times I sucked in WATER. This snorkel thing work may but without practice it worthless. NEVER practice alone .Stay warn be safe ps sometimes I had buddy clear the hose and hand it to me after rolling upside down. ALWAYS WORK WITH A SAFETY BUDDDDY!!! Stay happy it could be ?.<><

[happy happy happy]

I have personally used such of a device .The hard part getting it in time ,rushing water it is hard to keep in mouth ,without nose plugs it is not easy to breath through along hose .My one cent on this I'am alive .Thanks to cool heads (SWR ON TOP). BTW I perfected my roll by taping a hose to the hull of my yak,put on nose plugs ,goggles,mouth piece in roll over blow hard to clear hose .Relax ,breath,look around crazy hang time . DO NOT TRY this ALONE !!!!!!!MY first times I sucked in WATER. This snorkel thing work may but without practice it worthless. NEVER practice alone .Stay warn be safe ps sometimes I had buddy clear the hose and hand it to me after rolling upside down. ALWAYS WORK WITH A SAFETY BUDDDDY!!! Stay happy it could be ?.<><

[okieboater]

happy happy happy,

Sounds like there may well be a fine story behind your experiments with SWR and tubing.

any chance of a "Rest of The Story" follow up post.

If not appropriate, I understand, just would enjoy reading it.

[SteveGabbard]

Same here dave. I would like to hear more details if happy x3 cares to share.

[Eric Esche]

It was a long time ago -1974-5? on an ORGT winter trip. It wasn't exactly a snorkle, but we once used a split kayak float bag for a guy to breath with. He was pinned vertically in his breaking up Lettman MK.IV in a drop on Raven fork. The airbag gave us time to get ropes on him and the collapsed wreckage of his break away cockpit kayak. We broke his Norse paddle while prying with it like a crow bar, but it did the job and enabled us to place the ropes. Having the airbag to breathe off of while having ice cold water cascade over him was calming to him as he was starting to freak out also getting some water with every stretch to get air. Water had enough force to balloon out his wetsuit and he was nearly hypothermic by the time we got him out from the constant flushing. We stripped him down as soon as we got him out and into dry clothes and then poured all of our thermoses of hot tea and soup into him. We ended the trip right there since we were close to the road and he wanted the heater in my VW type III on full blast all the way back.

Air bag with long fill hose has some advantages over a pure snorkle as you can use it completely underwater with out having to purge it of water.

Seen this done a few other times with canoe pins, so it is nothing new.

Jim Shelander used to go into Woodall on purpose for grins and to freak the SC side ranger out as he stayed under a long time breathing off of his airbags, before doing a hands roll, winking at the crowd, and then endering out of the hole. Might not have set the best example, but you sort of had to know the ranger involved at the time. Our only worries were that the ranger might throw Jim both ends of a throw rope trying to "save" him (HE really did that once at Bull Sluice, throwing the other half of the rope while forgetting to hold on to it), or start shooting holes in the kayak thinking that it would flush out if it rode lower in the hole with less air in it, so we always had someone on the bank with the ranger to keep him from doing what he seriously said he thought he should do. Same ranger who liked to throw dynamite to see if it would free a body thought to be stuck in a hole or in the rocks on the bottom by disrupting the flow of the water. Jim and others were so good that they could and did bare hand paddle all of section IV of the Chattooga.

Eric Esche

[okieboater]

Thanks Eric, I guessed you would have some good feedback on this topic.

Having spent quality time in Woodall reversal (first time I ran it I did not know much about river hazards and Rangers did not spend time there) thank fully some times the Great Spirit takes care of those who don't know enough to take care of themselves. After that we either portaged rafts or took the far river right slot slide move in kayaks.

That was back in the days you could camp at the 76 bridge take out on the Georgia side. And it was rare to see anyone on the river except for the locals at the bridge swimming hole. The movie changed all that.