How To Clean your Snorkel Equipment
How to clean your snorkel Equipment after a trip?
After a fantastic snorkel trip it is important to wash and clean your equipment at the location and when you arrive back home or to your hotel or hostel. This is to stop your equipment from smelling, salt build up, bacteria, rusting and/or falling apart. In our tips below we run through how to clean your snorkel & mask, underwater camera, action camera and swim suit/vest.
1. Clean Snorkel Equipment before leaving snorkel location
When you’ve got to the beach or boat, it is a good idea to wash your equipment with a bottle of tap water (fresh). This doesn’t have to be immediately, but before you leave a snorkel location. Our tip would be to bring a spare 1L bottle of water you’ve filled up with tap water. It needs to be fresh to wash off the salt water which can cause the damage.
2. Clean when you arrive home
When you arrive back home or at your hotel, rinse your equipment and snorkel and mask in the sink, ensuring that all metal screws have been washed through and then leave to dry. This will stop your snorkel and mask gopro screws, mounts, underwater cameras from rusting and smelling and is a good practice.
Follow the following steps to wash out your swim suit and vest.
Equipment
- Take the non-waterproof equipment out of their mounts and leave to one side.
- Unscrew the mounts so that screws and visible and rinse your equipment in the sink.
- If it is an underwater camera, make sure that keep charging ports closed and rinse, including the wrist strap.
- Ensure that all metal screws have been washed through and then leave to dry.
How to clean snorkel and mask
Snorkel
- Wash tap water directly through the mouth piece and filter out through the spout the other end.
Mask
- Thoroughly rinse the inside and outside of the mask lens, nose piece and straps.
How to clean Swim Suit/Vest
Follow the following steps to wash out your swim suit and vest.
Equipment
- Place your swim suit in a sink.
- Start to run lukewarm water through the swim suit.
- Make the swim suit into a ball and gentle push up and down to pass the water through the costume.
- Get the swim suit length ways apart and squeeze the last water reminents out.
- Leave the swim costume to dry out.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why has my GoPro mount rusted after my snorkel trip?
This i normally because the metal has been exposed to the salt water and rusting occurs much quicker. To stop or significantly reduce this happening, unscrew your GoPro off of its mount and wash through the mounts screw and nut and leave to dry. We have literally been there where we forgot to unscrew the GoPro mount and wash through the screw and nut with fresh tap water. After returning to use the mount the GoPro is fixed onto the mount as the screw has excessive rust. We now wash the GoPro with water straight after a snorkel and then more thoroughly when we get back from the trip.
Luke
FOUNDER
Luke is a passionate snorkeler who started Snorkelverse to live his dream of combining his passions for snorkeling, marine life, protecting marine ecosystems, and helping others.
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