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With Pride of Maui, SNUBA is offered during morning snorkel tours. The duration of a SNUBA experience is generally 20-25 minutes, depending on the guest. SNUBA is an activity available per snorkel location as an add-on to a regular snorkel booking (per person). Contact our reservations department at 808-242-0955 for more information about SNUBA with Pride of Maui.

First of all, SNUBA is not like scuba diving. It’s more like snorkeling but with more support. The most common cause of ear pain when swimming or snorkeling occurs when the ears are not equalized before entering the water. Equalizing is when you block your nostrils and blow to open your ears (“popping” your ears), the same action taken right before a plane lands. If you have a concern about ear pain and ocean activities, please make sure to visit your general doctor to be signed off before booking any ocean activity.

On a Pride of Maui SNUBA adventure, guests can dive to a depth of 15 feet. The SNUBA tank is attached to a raft on the ocean surface and connected to a long hose that always remains with you.

There are only a few requirements for SNUBA. Guests must be at least eight years of age, have no medical contraindications, and have basic swimming skills. Although we provide flotation devices for SNUBA, all guests should be comfortable swimming in the ocean.

SNUBA is not the same as scuba diving. It’s an ocean activity available to all guests eight years or older. There is no certification required, unlike scuba diving. If you’re comfortable in the ocean and would like to view marine life and tropical fish in a hybrid scuba-snorkeling situation, SNUBA is for you! Our #1 priority is safety on all Pride of Maui boat tours. Read more about SNUBA and snorkeling safety.

There’s a minimal chance that a person can get the bends, also known as decompression sickness (DCS), from SNUBA diving. Unlike scuba, guests cannot reach a depth further than 15 feet with SNUBA. As a general recommendation, guests should refrain from taking helicopter tours, driving to Haleakala, or taking an airplane 4-6 hours before or after SNUBA.

There are many differences between scuba and SNUBA diving, although SNUBA is like a hybrid of snorkeling and scuba. With SNUBA, guests do not need certification; they can only go 15 feet deep. SNUBA is an assisted ocean activity where an air tank floats on the ocean surface connected to a 15-foot tube that follows the SNUBA diver providing air.

No certification is required for SNUBA.

With Pride of Maui, SNUBA is offered as a per-person and per-location add-on to a snorkel tour. To learn more about our prices for SNUBA, please visit our SNUBA page.

SNUBA is the safest and easiest way to experience the exhilaration of breathing underwater for about 20 minutes in the care of our expert instructors. A cross between snorkeling and SCUBA diving, SNUBA is easy because the air tank is attached to a raft floating at the surface above you so that you can just relax and breathe without worrying about all that heavy equipment.

Yes, it is so easy that anyone over 8 years of age is eligible as long as you do not have any medical conditions which would prohibit participation.

Since 1988, approximately 5 million people have done it without injury. SNUBA diving has proven to be the safest form of diving offered anywhere in the world.

The entire SNUBA Adventure is conducted in about an hour. SNUBA was developed for those who would like to safely experience breathing and exploring underwater without the investment of precious vacation time. The entire SNUBA program includes the following:

• Pre-dive Presentation / Orientation, Approximately 15 minutes • Equipment Outfitting, Approximately 10 minutes • Skills Demonstration / Practice, Approximately 10 minutes • Underwater Exploring, Approximately 25 minutes

You breathe through a mouthpiece called a regulator. As you begin to inhale a comfortable flow of air is provided from a compressed air cylinder located in the raft. The most difficult thing to remember is that you will be breathing through your mouth and not your nose.

You will be wearing a pair of fins, a mask, a weight belt (to neutralize your buoyancy in the water) and a SNUBA harness which connects your air-line to the raft on the surface.

The depth is limited by the length of the air lines which allow you to dive to a maximum depth of 15 feet.

Yes. You need basic swimming skills and will need to be comfortable in the water and able to go underwater without feeling panicky.

We offer SNUBA on our Molokini snorkel tour adventure.

Please note: SNUBA locations may vary depending on conditions and are at the discretion of the captain.