Diving With Glasses?

[Al Mialkovsky]

I use guage readers and they're fantastic. The little sticky ones aren't sticky enough for me.

Perscription masks are a bit expensive but what isn't?

 

[tedj01]

I use guage readers and they're fantastic. The little sticky ones aren't sticky enough for me.

Perscription masks are a bit expensive but what isn't?

Open Water Scuba class!

 

[jsmith89]

My dad had 20/400 vision had a custom mask made for him to his rx worked great! Just had lasik and that is even better he says. Be warned the rx mask weigh a little more.

-Jacobi

 

[BigTuna]

i have glasses and i dive without them but it is sometimes diffucult to see meters and ect... which i belive is a big red light anyhow.

i was wondering is there anyway i can dive with glasses or get certian type of contacts?keeping in mind i will be taking underwater welding next year?

My old eyes need distance correction, so I use pre-made prescription distance lenses in my goggles.

Distance vision is great with them, but I couldn't read my gauges, so I've installed DiveOptx readers. They are plastic semicircles, one for each eye, that magically stick onto the inside of the lenses. No glue, and they work great. Now I can see far AND read the numbers.

The photo shows what DiveOptx looks like installed. Here's one of several sources, from a Google search:
http://www.scuba.com/shop/product.asp?category=54&fromsearch=1&hashvalue=028500

I think you can get prescription lenses with bifocals ground in, but for me there's a risk that the particular mask they're made for would leak. Since the parts for premade distance correction are "off the shelf," I made sure I could return the goggles and the lenses if the combo didn't work out (it did), then I added the DiveOptx readers.

My brother in law has similar eyes, but he's a cheapskate. He only goes resort diving, for which he takes along the eyepiece of an old pair of glasses and wedges it inside his non-prescription mask. He's happy with this (I think), but I think it could be dangerous and wouldn't do it or recommend it.

I'd worry about the combination of contacts and mask clearing, mask flooding, or mask loss. At least you'd always know which way is up (I hope).

Good luck.

 

[Mambo Dave]

I wear regular soft contacts (well, sorta regular - astigmatism in both, +3.75 and +3.25 - is that medium strength?). Three days ago I flooded my mask at 70' to get the fog out, but I shut my eyes. Two clears later opened my eyes and my contacts were fine. Sure, an unplanned mask flood could wash 'em away, but I have tried opening my eyes under pool water and they didn't float away for those few seconds. They really aren't the consideration I thought they would be during, or after, a dive.

 

[dmmike]

I've dove with a mask that has my rx in it for years. The only thing is, I am very protective of it, because if I lose it or it break it the rest of the dive trip is going to s**k.
I do not like contacts so I do not have a chose.

 

[ProfessorAronnax]

Personally I wear Accuvue Advance contacts and love them but here are some other ideas: I agree these folks are great: prescriptiondivemasks.com They can even attach a prescription to a FFM. Another option is actually wearing your glasses attached to a bracket inside an FFM. Check it out: AGA Accessories

Rap

 

[reeldive]

Same problem here, far sighted . My normal dry land perscription is +2.00 and another +2.00 for the bifocal. For diving I use an IST mask that I bought from Joe Diver.com for $95 US. it is +2.00 no bifocal and with the extra magnification of water I can read my gages and see well out to about 4 meters (13Ft.) which is enough for most diveing. The only time I wish I could do better is when diving the tropics with 100ft + viz