Patent ID: 8277272

Claim:
A snorkeler flotation apparatus comprising: a frame having a tubular perimeter defining an open interior space having a support netting stretched across the open interior space and being configured to support a snorkeler lying in a prone, face down position atop the support netting while snorkeling; a plurality of spaced apart elongated rigid arms, each of the arms being pivotably attached at a proximal end thereof by one of a plurality of selectably angularly positionable arm mount assemblies to a first and a second side of the frame; a buoyant float positioned on a distal end of each arm, each arm being independently selectively fixably positionable by adjustment of the corresponding arm mount assembly between an upright storage position and a laterally extended use position to buoyantly support the frame in water; the frame being buoyantly positionable on or proximate to the surface of the water by the independent selected angular positioning of each of the arm mount assemblies whereby the face of the snorkeler is in viewable communication with, and to see beneath, the surface of the water.