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Scuba Gear: Scuba Mask Maintenance Tips

November 25, 2009

A Scuba Mask may be a relatively cheap piece of Scuba Diving equipment in comparison to rest of the items in your Scuba kit, but it is also the one piece of equipment that is almost always owned by every Scuba diver and rarely rented. A Dive Mask is also a piece of equipment that [...]

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Scuba Masks: Your Window to the Underwater World

November 7, 2009

Needless to say Scuba diving masks are an integral piece of dive gear and can greatly influence the comfort of a dive. Much needed to keep the stinging salt water out of your eyes, Scuba masks make your view of coral, fish, sea mammals and other life that much more clearer. Dive masks come in [...]

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Why do divers spit in their masks?

August 16, 2009

I can distinctly remember my first day at my open water dive class, when our dive instructor asked us all to spit into our dive masks and put them on. Eyebrows went up in disbelief everywhere, and not to mention a few chuckles as well. When we asked our instructor why, his reply was simply [...]

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Ways to Keep Your Dive Mask From Fogging Up

July 21, 2009

There are so many different recipes and concoctions that divers use nowadays to create their ‘miracle’ mask defogging solution. For the rest of us, we simply spit in our dive masks. However for those of you who find spitting into your mask ‘unhygienic’ or uncivilized, or simply are tired of hawking all that spit into [...]

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Can I Scuba Dive if I wear Prescription Glasses?

July 4, 2009

While many claim that there is no need for correction of vision while diving, as the water magnifies your vision; this is not necessarily true for everyone. Things appear approximately 33% larger/closer underwater due to refraction so if you have only slightly corrected vision, you may be able to see just fine underwater. But for [...]

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