Perscription dive masks

[Rudyh]

Hey dive buddies, new to the forum and have a question about perscription dive masks. Have about 40 dives mostly carribean vacation dives. Each time the addition grows. I'm at the point i can no longer see my dive computer. I am going on a cruise at the end of February and plan on doing about 8 dives . I just got contact lenses Friday and because there multivue lenses not to great Question is do i spend big bucks on a good pair of perscription mask, do i just try the peel on cheaters, not really sure. Any sugestions would be appreciated. Rudy

 

[cdreamer]

The peel on cheaters are cheaper at about $40. A bifocal mask will run between $200-$250. You may want to see if the DiveOptix will work with contacts. They may not. If by chance that does work you could just have glass bifocal lenses put into your mask. Go into a shop that carries DiveOptix and lay them in your mask while you are wearing your contacts and see if it works and go from there. I wear contacts and
prefer it to a RX mask.

 

[MuddyRubberDuck]

I just ordered my girl a an rx mask. It's cressi ocean eyes. With the lenses it was about 150 total granted those were not bifocals. It's her first. I will let you know how she likes it when it comes in on thursday. She doesn't like the contacts because the salt water irritates them.

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I have been nearsighted since childhood and at 45 have reached that age where accommodation for reading distances can be a challenge.

I have however learned a few things....

Slighty under correcting the nearsighted condition greatly assists the short range vision. I do this two ways when diving:

1. I have daily disposable contacts from my eye doctor that are about a half dipoter less than my normal correction as well as some remaining extended wear lenses from my previous prescription that are also a half dipoter undercorrecting. (It seems my eyes are getting shorter as I age, reducing the correction needed for the near sightedness every year or two. My doctor says this is normal for people with a great deal of myopia.) I will use these lenses when diving with my normal uncorrected mask.

2. I use standard out of the box corrective lenses in a regular mask and again under correct by about a half diopter. I'll do this in situations where frequent mask removal is required.

In either case, unless the visibility is in excess of 100', I'll never notice the loss of resloution in distance vision but do appreciate the increased ability to read SPGs and computers with less strain or effort.

 

[idocsteve]

How many different trial pairs did your eye doctor give you to sample, and over what time period did the trial fitting take place, before you and him or her came to the conclusion that you were at your maximum level of visual acuity for distance and near?

Did you try more than one brand of multifocal contact lens and did you explore options such as making one ee a bit more of a distant correction and the other more of a reading correction?

 

[Rudyh]

Thanks for all the help. Just got contacts Yesterday and wore them for 4 hours. Today about 6. She said we may have to tweak the script. I"m suppose to go back in 3 weeks to let her know how things are. Vision is not too bad at distance but reading is another story. Because my trip is at the end February not to sure what my next step should be. Don't want to jump the gun,but also don't want to ruin the dives. Also with the new contacts when looking around, seems like things are foggy. I know for sure they were not baush & lomb . My last dive in August was in Freeport and dove with about 10 reef sharks and just blew me away. One of the most amazing things I have ever done. Thanks Rudy

 

[jorge.a.mahauad]

I had mine custom made by Welcome to Prescription Dive Masks 1-800-538-2878. I highly recommend them.

 

[DA Aquamaster]

How many different trial pairs did your eye doctor give you to sample, and over what time period did the trial fitting take place, before you and him or her came to the conclusion that you were at your maximum level of visual acuity for distance and near?

Did you try more than one brand of multifocal contact lens and did you explore options such as making one ee a bit more of a distant correction and the other more of a reading correction?

During the last visit or during the last 29 years I have been wearing contacts?

A point of clarification. I do not yet "require" bifocal lenses for reading but I am at a point where my usual correction to 20/10 for sidatnce vision is counter productive in terms of near vision so we've backed it off a bit to 20/20 to aide the near vision.

 

[delray.piper]

I have a couple of prescription masks. I need bifocals to read and while I use a Sherwood Wisdom computer that I can read with out correction, I can't read my camera data. With the mask, I have no problems. And, I can see the little critters on the bottom better also.

They are not cheap, $250 for my last one, but I wouldn't like to dive without one.

 

[idocsteve]

During the last visit or during the last 29 years I have been wearing contacts?

A point of clarification. I do not yet "require" bifocal lenses for reading but I am at a point where my usual correction to 20/10 for sidatnce vision is counter productive in terms of near vision so we've backed it off a bit to 20/20 to aide the near vision.

My answer was directed to the Op on this thread, sorry for the confusion.

If you have backed off on your distance vision to aid near vision, and you're still seeing 20/20, than you're doing ok.