Forgive Me.....I Forgot!!

[QuoVadis]

I'm not talking about a panicked diver....Cant i put my mask on my forehead on the boat?? Standing on the beach?? Just before i enter a beach dive???

 

[matt_unique]

It is so much more comfortable to place your mask on your forehead than to pull it down to sit around your neck. Plus if you need to don it again for any reason it is much easier to do so from your forehead than from around your neck. If I surface in rough conditions I take more care to place it just above my eyes. This is definitely my preference. If you're a DM and you see someone who is not one of your students swimming into shore or the boat while having a normal conversation with another diver please do not leap up and down and ask what is wrong

If a diver is panicked on the surface the mask will be long gone....

--Matt

 

[QuoVadis]

Good point Matt!!

 

[diverbrian]

Anybody here ever gone looking for their glasses while they were on their forehead? I remember looking for my mask while on the surface and it was on my forehead. That cured me from ever putting it there again! Talk about embarassing. :54:

 

[Rick Murchison]

I'm sorry, but all y'all (that's the plural of y'all) are wrong!
The real reason for the "mask on the forehead" rule is that students weren't violating enough beer rules to keep up with instructors' thirst, so we made up a new one.
Tank standing up? You owe me a beer.
Blow an 'o' ring? You owe me a beer.
Leave your buddy? You owe me a beer
Come up on the wrong boat? That one's a case!
Mask on your forehead? You owe me a beer.
Rick
P.S. Oh, yeah, you're more likely to donate your mask to Davey Jones from your forehead than most any other way you carry it.

 

[NEWreckDiver]

I'm sorry, but all y'all (that's the plural of y'all) are wrong!
The real reason for the "mask on the forehead" rule is that students weren't violating enough beer rules to keep up with instructors' thirst, so we made up a new one.
Tank standing up? You owe me a beer.
Blow an 'o' ring? You owe me a beer.
Leave your buddy? You owe me a beer
Come up on the wrong boat? That one's a case!
Mask on your forehead? You owe me a beer.
Rick
P.S. Oh, yeah, you're more likely to donate your mask to Davey Jones from your forehead than most any other way you carry it.

I owe you one for this. I need a laugh and I really think this makes since.

 

[QuoVadis]

Thats a good one Rick! Hey were neighbors (but i still cant understand you 'bamians')!! So i CAN wear my mask on my forehead!! I may want to donate to Davey Jones!!!

 

[Paul Evans]

Rick, You got instructor freinds this side of the pond???, Thats something else i've heard a lot, Mask on head = one beer to the instructor.

 

[Kat]

It's your mask, wear it any way you'd like. But keep in mind that some people may assume various things about you or your diving ability. Which may or may not be correct.

I don't take off my mask until I am out of the water. I wear my mask around my neck after I leave the water, but I do think it is more comfortable & convenienton your forehead. I was taught not to do it.

 

[got4boyz]

QuoVadis, I'm totally with you. My mask is always on MY forehead just prior to entering the water. It's the most comfortable and if I look like a dork, so be it! Besides, when I ski I put my goggles on my forehead as does everyone else, and they don't look like dorks, but if it was around their necks they would. LOL

Besides, around the neck is extremely uncomfortable and harder to put on than sliding it down from your forehead.

I always leave it on my face coming up from a boat dive until I'm aboard, but if I have an easy swim in from a shore dive it's on my forehead. I haven't lost one yet. If I do, I always bring an extra with me.