How do you wear your mask when your not using it?

[got4boyz]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...

Ooops... sorry... I didn't realize that you were part of the older crowd.
=-)

Well, I guess that all depends on your point of view. I don't know how old you are but if you are in your 20s or so you'd probably think I was part of the older crowd, if you are in your 60s you'd think I was part of the younger crowd! LOL I turned 42 yesterday, I guess I'm right smack in the middle!

 

[Uncle Pug]

got4boyz once bubbled...
Well, I guess that all depends on your point of view.

I guess you get to cast the deciding vote!


btw... Happy Birthday!

 

[Jarhead]

pull my mask down around my neck. But lately I've tried putting it on backward. I got tired of having to take my reg back out of my mouth to pull mask back on. (After I've surface with a class, ect.)

Jarhead

 

[landlocked]

pt40fathoms once bubbled...
I have mine on my face from the time I get into the water, till the time the dive is over. When the dive is over, it comes down around my neck. If I am in the water waiting for other divers to enter, and I have my mask anywhere else than on my face at the start of the dive. My mask almost always fogs up. I suppose its because any anti-fog I put on, will be washed off while bobbing in the water waiting. Besides, I feel comfortable with my mask on, so on it stays.

Ditto here. From the dock/boat to the face and back to the dock/boat. I think the key to the fog issue is to put your mask on before your face gets wet. Locally we play a little game called "Big Wave." If you find someone with their mask on their forehead you get to play "Big Wave." Best played with someone smaller than you who has a sense of humor. ut: Never play Big Wave with a spouse! :nono:

 

[got4boyz]

landlocked once bubbled...
ut: Never play Big Wave with a spouse! :nono:

LOL landlocked, you should have known better!

 

[Mouth Breather old]

My OW intructor was VERY specific about the meanings of mask position when not on the face. He said:

Mask on face= "Everything okay"
Mask on forhead "I'm in distress"
Mask on backwards= "Hey batter batter, no batter no batter..."
Mask on sideways="Yo dog, wussup homeboy?"

I had big time mask fogging problems when I was first starting out during pool training. I told my intructor that I everytime I exhaled to clear my mask, it would fog up badly even though I used defog. He said that he didn't even bother with defog and just used "spit". So anyway I spit in my mask, rinsed it lightly, and still had problems fogging. I told my instructor, who by now was getting impatient with me. His curt reply was "Use some toothpaste!"

I spent the rest of the class distracted while trying to figure out how what I had eaten before class could affect the chemistry of my saliva to the point that it would no longer would work to prevent my mask from fogging! (Hmmm "Were microfood particles acting as a nucleus that attracted water vapor?", "Was the PH of my saliva too acid, too alkaline, or was it neutralizing the effectiveness of my defog solution?", "Does toothpaste or the flavoring in toothpase do something to my saliva to make it a more effective defogger?")

Next day before class I brushed my teeth and tongue for like an hour (okay 10 minutes). Used a lot of toothpaste, scrubbed my tongue till is was raw. I rinsed my mouth...but not so much that I couldn't still taste the toothpaste.

I go to classs and when my instructor sees me he says, "So did you clean your mask using toothpaste like I told you to?"
I said "Umm...Ya...I did."

 

[got4boyz]

I'm not sure I would have been brave enough to tell that story! LOL

 

[ScubaCRNA]

It seems that a diver in distress isn't going to surface and place his/her mask on his/her forehead to signal distress and then wait for help to arrive. Don't you think the person in distress is going to thrash about while yelling, coughing, hacking, spitting, flailing, and kicking? I guess if that doesn't signal distress then, as a last resort, put your mask on your forehead.

Many pictures of my hero, Mike Nelson, has his mask on his forehead and he was NEVER in distress. He put the distress on the bad guys!

 

[devilfish]

ScubaCRNA once bubbled...
It seems that a diver in distress isn't going to surface and place his/her mask on his/her forehead to signal distress and then wait for help to arrive. Don't you think the person in distress is going to thrash about while yelling, coughing, hacking, spitting, flailing, and kicking? I guess if that doesn't signal distress then, as a last resort, put your mask on your forehead.

Many pictures of my hero, Mike Nelson, has his mask on his forehead and he was NEVER in distress. He put the distress on the bad guys!

Most humans are nose breathers. This is one of the reasons why many beginning divers have such a hard time learning to breathe from a regulator and with mask off. Also this is the reason why many have a hard time with mask clears and mask off. As the course progresses they "program" themselves to be mouth breathers while on scuba. A diver in panic will revert to be a nose breather in an instant, and that is the reason why alomost 100% of the time a panicked diver will remove the mask, or rip it off, on the surface or underwater. That's a proven fact. Yes, they will also trash, scratch, claw their way out of water. But even an uncomfortable diver on the surface will also take the mask off. Some do it because they are not comfortable and some will do it just to look stupid. As for Holywood, well, it looks macho, so do the rest of the models in dive magazines, although most are not divers, just hired pretty people. In diving we have many do's but often the why's are lost in the shuffle.

 

[BradfordNC]

around my neck.

have always heard the thing about placing the mask on the forehead being a sign of distress.
the thing that gets me about that is, if someone is realy freaked out and in distress, do you think they are gonna put their mask up on their forehead???

just thinking