Prescription Snorkel Mask

scuba_girl

You'll be fine with the open water test, the instructors are really great at working through the exercises with you. I have perfect vision and trust me, with a mask off under water, I couldn't see anything either! I would speak with them about any concerns you have beforehand and they will work through these with you.

Diving is great, you see some amazing sights!

Whereabouts are you doing your open water? In the UK or abroad? I've been a warm water diver up to now, but am doing my first UK dive this year (have been diving for 16 years, so it's a little shocking I have left it so long!).

Tabatha_Kitten

Oh Scuba Girl. You wuss !!
You haven't lived if you've not spent a cold January weekend at Capernwray in a leaky drysuit !!

scubaangel

Tabatha_Kitten wrote: »

Oh Scuba Girl. You wuss !!
You haven't lived if you've not spent a cold January weekend at Capernwray in a leaky drysuit !!

Here here (sooo pleased to see another loony on here whos done that :beer: were you up there this Jan to see the ice around the entry points :eek: never seen that before!!)

As for a prescription mask, there are some manufacturers who make lenses for masks from memory Cressi do them for the 'focus' and possibly 'lince' masks (both mid range) as do Mares (I think) for all their mask styles, and Tusa do them for their twin lens style masks - give your local dive centre a call, they probably wont have the info to hand but ask them to find out and price it up for you, the dive centre I work at recently did one for just short of £50 but it was a VERY cheap mask (I'd not have recommended it for anything other than snorkelling myself), for a decent mask you'd be looking at around £35 -£40 for the mask plus lenses which vary according to manufacturer.

Forgot to mention we also use a company call axis optical (spelling could be wrong) who can fit lenses in to any mask you buy - but that does tend to work out more expensive than buying a mask and lenses as a package.

Tabatha_Kitten

Yip. Im that looney !!
I wish you well for your first uk dive Scuba girl.
There are so many good dive sites around the british coast. You'll never look back.
Yep its cold, yep the viz can be awfull, yep the tides are a nightmare.
4 out of 5 dives WILL be c**p, but that 1 in 5 makes it all worth while !!