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Breathe Easy, Not all snorkels are created equal

- Simon Murray

We know people have been snorkeling for millennia in part because of Aristotle. In his On the Parts of Animals, one of the first biology textbooks of the ancient world, written around 350 B.C., he compares an elephant’s trunk to “divers equip[ping] themselves with instruments for breathing.” Since that time, however, little has changed in the design of such a breathing instrument. But what if you could relocate the cumbersome schnorchel—German slang for snout—or the curved tube Aristotle envisioned as a trunk, so that it allowed you to breathe more naturally?