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What is Kadence Technology®?

Kadence Technology, Inc. is pleased to introduce you to the world’s first pressure-regulated snorkel. Envisioned and developed by  Mark R. Johnson, MD, Kadence Technology is the revolutionary science behind the Kapitol Reef® snorkel. It purposefully introduces a calibrated resistance into the exhalation path of the snorkel to improve your breathing. This introduces a small, therapeutic pressure to improve oxygen delivery into, and carbon dioxide removal from, the bloodstream.

It also counters the compressive weight of water acting on the chest wall to restore a more normal breathing pattern. Inhalation muscles are spared from fatigue and lung volumes are supported to be more natural.
Kadence Technology® improves breathing performance.

The pressure regulation of this innovative technology significantly improves performance and safety. Indeed, relaxed respiratory rates drop 32% with Kadence Technology and comfortable breath-hold times increase 22%. While it is not recommended to hyperventilate with any snorkel (including the Kapitol Reef snorkel) to accomplish longer dive times, typical users note that they are more comfortable breath-holding with Kadence Technology.
Kadence Technology reduces what has become known as “snorkel panic,” which physiologically occurs when lungs become compressed. By helping to preserve lung volumes, the uncomfortable feedback from stretch receptors in the terminal bronchioles of the lungs to subconscious areas of the brain, is suppressed, resulting in much less anxiety.
Kadence Technology also ingeniously separates inhaled air from exhaled carbon dioxide, thereby minimizing the re-breathing of oxygen-depleted air. This helps all users, but is especially beneficial for individuals with small lungs. Not only can children snorkel with the safety of an adult-sized snorkel, but they can do so with better comfort and safety.

Due to its unique design, the Kapitol Reef empowers you to breathe more naturally without forceful purging, even after diving or swimming in rough waters. In its normal upright swim position, the very process of gently exhaling through the Kapitol Reef snorkel effectively removes any water that may have entered during the previous inhalation, even if you are submerged! The inhalation passages are naturally protected from splash and floodwater while exhaling. While submerged, water is not able to get into the inhalation passages, regardless of orientation – unless the snorkeler intentionally draws water in. Even then, the water enters slowly and is automatically purged while gently exhaling, which is natural while ascending to the surface.
Why is it vital to regulate breathing?
The weight of the water around your body presses air out of your lungs and forces the muscles around your chest to work harder to inhale. The result: fatigued inhalation muscles, smaller lung volumes, erratic breathing patterns, and increased anxiety.
Swimming with ordinary scuba snorkels does nothing to address these problems. In fact, conventional dry snorkels rely upon negative pressure to keep the float valve closed and keep the water out! This suction can actually draw the tongue into the mouthpiece when diving to moderate depths and actually worsens the relative pressure discomfort across the sinuses and the ears.
In contrast, Kadence Technology solves these problems by utilizing precision-engineered valves to develop a slight positive pressure, which more naturally keeps water out while also supporting inhalation muscles, preserving lung volumes, and restoring a normal cadence to breathing and improving the efficiency of alveolar (air sac) function in the lungs. No other snorkel produces such comfortable breathing.
Kadence Technology utilizes precision-engineered valves to match exhalation airway pressures to the water pressure around your body. This helps to counteract the water pressures against your lungs, mouth, ears, and sinuses.

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OK, enough with the propaganda, now a review by a consumer user of the Kapitol Reef Product:

Mike Duesing · 82 weeks ago

Good morning. A quick note to say thank you for producing a simply stunning snorkel!
I have been preparing my 6 year old daughter for our  snorkeling adventure in July. In doing so, I have been through the gamma of snorkels. Unsuccessfully so I might add. Saturday I bit the bullet and purchased this snorkel from you almost as a last resort as well as it was the perfect color for her! (and thanks to Summer for upgrading my shipping-you guys at K2 are great).
My expectations were candidly low. However, I was soon in awe of how amazing your snorkel is. I will send you photos, which I took to show her the ‘do’s and don’ts’; she immediately felt comfortable to dive down and come up and clear! A true first!
Owning a products company I know how hard it can be to convince the public how great your products are against the competition. Great Job and I stand by what i feel is THE BEST Snorkel on the market!

Thanks for reading this far.  So what do you think, rants or raves.  Is this the future of snorkel sets?

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