Prescription (Rx) mask exchange ?

[Red_5]

any such thing as a prescription mask exchange simillar to what they do with regular eyewear?


my daughter just received yet another new prescription. I'd like to get her certified, but I know that as soon as I get her a mask for her prescription, it'll be time for a new one (she's 13 and growing like a weed) and for the amount of use the'll get it just doesnt have a good ROI.

 

[Damselfish]

Some masks you can just pop out the lenses and purchase lenses of the right diopters. So you wouldn't have to buy a whole new mask. Depending on how bad her eyes are, she might not find it necessary to have correction in a mask, or keep it exactly up to date with her prescription.

 

[Scared Silly]

Check with a local shop mine actually allowed me to swap lens when my Rx changed. I thought that this was great.

 

[Marek K]

Some masks you can just pop out the lenses and purchase lenses of the right diopters. So you wouldn't have to buy a whole new mask. Depending on how bad her eyes are, she might not find it necessary to have correction in a mask, or keep it exactly up to date with her prescription.

I'll second that. If she only needs moderate correction (up to about -5.00 or 6.00), and has a mask with easily-available "standard" corrective lenses (normally in half-diopter powers), it should "only" cost you about $70 to replace a set. And somebody might be able to use the old set.

And as Damselfish said, correction isn't as critical underwater. Our 14-year-old daughter (about -4.50 with moderate astigmatism in air) has been diving the same corrected mask (spherical correction) for two years, and she can still spot the cool stuff way before I can.

Plus, you daughter is getting to the age where her vision change is going to drastically slow down.

ROI? In scuba diving?

--Marek