K2 How To: Getting the Top Rated Snorkel Diving Gear! A schnorkel is a water pipe in which used when swimming to aid our breath while hovering upon the surface of ocean with our face subaqueous. About a a thousand and nine one hundred yrs ago, an ordinary reed snorkel was utilized by the Iranian divers and it consisted of an product similar to that of today's eye protection produced from shiny tortoise shells.