Beware Buying a Scuba Mask Until You Read This!

 

While diving, you clear your mask or you are screwed. You need to secure the mask at your forehead and exhale from your nose to clear the mask.

Because you want to clear the mask with your exhaled breath the volume of air between the mask and your face is crucial.

The more air the harder it will be to clear. We are pleased with the Tilos Excel Scuba Mask, and the Oceanic Shadow Mask.

 

A SCUBA mask will also need a soft area around the nose so you can pinch your nose to equalize the air space in you ears. Most masks come with either a clear silicone skirt or a black skirt. The same chemical process happens to the black skirt but you cannot see it. The selection of black or clear skirt can depend on which side of the camera you are on.

If you are taking photos or video the black skirt will reduce glare and make it simpler to see the things in the view finder. A clear skirt will be better if someone is a bit claustrophobic because it will permit more light around your eyes.

There a many styles of masks. A dual-lens mask has two lenses and generally dual-lens masks are lower volume than single-lens masks of relative equal size.

A breathtaking view mask with twin lenses will be rather smaller volume. Typically the more glass you've got the more you can see. With the panoramic you are not looking out the side window but you'll see movement and be ready to turn to the movement.

These masks are the super premium of the group as they leave unfettered your range of vision. The two we most suggest are the Tilos Excel Scuba Mask and Oceanic Shadow Mask.

Quoting Scuba Diving Magazine: The Tilos Excel was the massive surprise of this review. It had one of the widest fields of view and a budget-friendly price . With a wide bottom and teardrop shapes below the eyes, the lens favors downward viewing, superb for finding belts and buckles on a BC. It all adds up to a combined vertical range of 75 degrees, the same vertical field of view as the two Atomic masks in this review. Bonus : The upper and lower corners of the mask have a tread-like texture that helps wet hands grip the mask when donning and doffing.

For experienced divers who dive in really cold water or the public safety divers who desires to speak underwater there are full face masks. When deciding how to choose a scuba mask you should consider fit, skirt - clear or black, volume of air behind the mask, range of vision, and of course color.

At K2 Scuba we strongly suggest you try on masks at a retailer tha will take some time, in the flesh or by phone to fit the mask to you. It is by a long way the most critical criteria for choosing a mask. A poorly fitting mask will flood and raise nervousness in your diving experience. Your mask is an integral part of your scuba diving equipment, and as such care must be taken in the selection. . .like all of your scuba gear.