question about snorkeling with high blood pressure

[shonjon]

I'm wanting to go snorkeling in Nassau, I've seen on the carnival shore excursions that if you have high blood pressure then you can't snorkel. I take medicine for my blood pressure and it keeps it almost perfect. What can I do to be able to snorkel?

[Dive Master]

I'm wanting to go snorkeling in Nassau, I've seen on the carnival shore excursions that if you have high blood pressure then you can't snorkel. I take medicine for my blood pressure and it keeps it almost perfect. What can I do to be able to snorkel?

 

 

Have your Doctor write a note stating you are medically fit for the activity.My doctor is a diver and has cleared me to dive with hypertension and type 2 Diabetes---both easily controlled with medication.I just returned home from doing a 140 foot dive with 14 minutes of DECO today.Snorkeling would be "child's play" compared this unless you were to get caught in a bad current.If your doctor clears you (well I hate to say tell a 'fib" and just check no on the questionare) but that is exactly what my doctor advises me to do.

[cmtom89]

Have your Doctor write a note stating you are medically fit for the activity.......

If your doctor clears you (well I hate to say tell a 'fib" and just check no on the questionare) but that is exactly what my doctor advises me to do.

 

Ditto! I figure it is not a fib if my medication controls my blood pressure! :D My BP is probably better than most of the others on the trip who have not had theirs actually taken in years!!!

I can see the potential restrictions for diving, but snorkeling (in most every situation) is much more low key and does not put the same stress/pressure on the body. I think they just make a single generic form for snorkeling/diving and consider it the same activity -which it most certainly is not!

Go, have a good time, and just monitor how you feel (which you are used to doing anyway). If you begin to feel lightheaded, get back to the boat or the shore with your snorkel buddy by your side.

Enjoy the beauty and wonder of the underwater world!!