Tips for Clearing Your Scuba Mask
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How well you can see clearly while diving can make a huge difference. Choosing to see crisply and clearly is wonderful! Skip blurry, uncomfortable dives. Have full vision for safer and much more enjoyable adventures.
Getting Corrective Lenses for Scuba Diving
Getting a prescription scuba mask if you don’t have perfect vision is the first step, the second step to seeing the fabulous landscapes is knowing how to clear your scuba mask.
Almost all scuba masks at some point of time take in water, become foggy or even fall off during a dive. However, if you follow these simple preventive measures before and during your dive you will have them happen less often, if at all.
Ways to Avoid Fogging
We recommend using anti-fog gel on your scuba mask to prevent fogging from breath, leakage, or condensation before your dive. This works relatively well most of the time. However, we discovered an additional device that really helps. If you are finding that you are having your mask fog often, you may want to try Fog Wiper.
This device works extremely well and easily even during dives.
Ways to Get water Out of your Mask
When you feel water enter your mask, try to inhale through the mouth and at the same time exhale sharply through the nose. This is not a standard breathing technique and is only used for removing water from ones mask. A few divers will also tilt the bottom of the mask out slightly WHILE they exhale. Be careful if you try that as you can let even more water in. Often, a sharp exhale will clear the mask.
Repeat this technique as needed. If you used the anti-fog gel and have your scuba mask wipers, you either won’t get fogging or you can clear it easily. One can always surface to remove excess water, but using the above technique is worth learning as it saves valuable dive time.
Having a clear mask makes seeing the fish, coral, turtles and more so much more enjoyable. It also helps you dive safely and easily. The enjoyment you get from having clear vision during scuba diving is marvelous!
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