Scuba Mask Tips

Scuba Mask Tips

Your window to the underwater world, scuba masks are an important piece of scuba giving gear. They are also one of the first pieces of gear you’ll want to own rather than rent, even as early as your first scuba certification. Most divers put a great of effort into finding and selecting the right kind [...]

Solutions For Foggy Scuba Masks

Foggy scuba mask solutions

Nothing can ruin a dive more than having that white haze in front of your eyes throughout the dive. Foggy scuba masks are often the cause of frustration for divers, especially if your dealing with a new mask. Spit, as you’ve probably heard, is the most common foggy mask fix. But, if you’re like me [...]

Tusa M-14 Visulator Mask

TBTM14

TUSA is one of the world’s first scuba equipment manufacturers, founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1952 and has for over 55 years, been pioneering great scuba gear and churning out quality products ever since. The M-14 Visualator mask is one such quality product. One of the biggest drawbacks of several dual lens construction scuba masks [...]

Wearing Contact Lenses When Diving

Wearing contact lenses when diving

For those of us with less than perfect vision, there’s always that problem of what to do when scuba diving. While things appear approximately 33% larger/closer underwater due to refraction, it’s not enough of a correction for those who need more than just a slight eyesight correction usually solved with prescription glasses. Luckily, there are [...]

A Guide To Full Face Scuba Masks

Ocean Reef Neptune Space with GSM Kit

Full face scuba masks aren’t often used in recreational diving, unless you’re diving in very cold waters.A lot of serious cold-water/professional divers use full-face masks to help keep warm.However, these types of masks are commonly used commercial diving and by underwater videographers and TV show hosts as they can be fitted with intercom radio units [...]

Color Corrected Scuba Masks

SeaVision Transvision Mask

One of the most important thing for recreational scuba diving is visibility. Being able to witness marine-life and coral in its true colors is of the highest importance, which is why color corrected scuba masks are probably one of the greatest developments in scuba equipment in a long time. Featured above is the SeaVision TransVision [...]

Scuba Diving Risks: Mask Squeeze

mask squeeze

Mask Squeeze is the condition that occurs due to incorrect equalization of the air pressure inside the mask causing the outside pressure at depth to push the scuba mask to a divers face resulting in bursting of the small blood vessels around the eyes. Most of you have probably learned about Mask Squeeze during your [...]

Underwater Digital Camera Masks from Liquid Image

LIM5

One of the most innovative and fascinating scuba diving gadgets to hit the underwater photography arena in a long time is the line-up of Liquid Image’s underwater digital camera and video masks. The built in digital camera into the scuba mask allows the diver/swimmer to have both hands free underwater for swimming, until he needs [...]

Scuba Gear: Scuba Mask Maintenance Tips

Scuba Diving Masks

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 [...]

Scuba Masks: Your Window to the Underwater World

Scuba Diving Masks

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 [...]