Just thought id clarify my post as it has started a few hypotheticals.

My mate bought the snorkel new.

We installed it ourselves. We had thoroughly checked it was sealed.

It was about a year and a half old when said incident happened.

Given it was over 12 months old, and we had installed it ourselves, we didn't even try to contact ironman, as we presumed we would be told to get lost, however I am happy to hear you say that you would have looked at it for manufacturing defects, and will bear that in mind in the future.

The crack was in the plastic itself, not one of the seams.

The snorkel had started to fade a little in the sun.

While things may have changed, I found the safari to be made of higher quality plastic.

I'm not trying to have a go at ironman, however in my experience I would choose the safari over the ironman.

And I'm well aware that many people run ironman snorkels trouble free.

Cheers