Snuba is a portmanteau — a combination of snorkel and scuba — and refers to snorkeling several feet underwater while breathing through a long hose that’s attached to an air supply float on a raft. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Snuba”
A new word for me, snuba.
This is a snorkel scuba.
Yes.
Yeah.
I ran across that recently too.
Did you?
Yeah.
In the Wall Street Journal?
It might have been.
I added it to my word file.
I added it to my word file.
Our bulging word files.
Our commonplace books, right?
That’s right.
So I don’t remember though.
Snorkel plus scuba.
How do they combine the two where you can actually go down with the snorkel?
You can dive up to 20 feet while breathing through a hose tethered to a raft.
Snuba.
Snuba.
Snorkel and scuba.
That’s a nice word, snuba.
Right.
I love that it’s the second generation.
So we have self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, which is called a scuba.
And most people don’t know the original acronym.
And now it’s spinning off these other words.
Right.
And what will come out of snuba?
Snubic?
Snuba-ing?
Snuba-ing?
Snuba-dude?
