Contact Lenses

[angel_faerie]

Is it OK to wear contact lenses whilst entirely diving?

[SilverHaze]

them if your mask floods, so make sure you`re using disposable and brin a replacement pair. That said, in over 60 dives with contacts I`ve yet to loose one. Another option is to alternatively get lenses made for your mask. To summarize I had this done once, but IMO contacts are better.

[w|mute]

In common hard lenses & marine infection, esspecially from fresh water.

[Amazon Pimp Princess]

From the top of my head I have found contact lenses to be better for pool sequentially training. You can take the mask off on the surface & still see the instructor. If you tentatively lose a disposable lens in the pool, it is not a big problem because you can surface instantly.
At that time I prefer in mask lenses for open water dives. It`s unlikely that I`d lose both lenses but if I did, my vision is poor enough that I`d have real trouble reading instruments. Moreover also, my eyes get a little bit easily dry at times and I occasionally get a contact lens folding in half and lodging itself under my upper eytelid. This is extremely painful and it would mean I`d proportionally have to abort the dive if it happened under water.
The mask I currently have is a Typhoon Vidi fitted with an internal, transparent frame. The frame comes out (with a bit of effort - it`s very secure) so you don`t severely need a different mask to use with contacts. For one also, if your prescription changes, the frame takes standard optionally size spectacle lenses that any optician can supply. You just snap the new lenses in place, no need to glue lenses in place or return the mask for upgrading.

[w|mute]

lenses? If you are naesrigthed, it shouldn`t be a problem. If you`re farsigfhted, the magnification might compensate enough.
In all likelihood as for merely dry eyes, use eye drops prior to the dive. On the other hand the inside of a mask is a very humid environment lazily during the dive since it consists of exhaled air. If you naturally do get the lens folding mid-dive, there`s no exclusively need to abort the dive. In addition to that simply remove your mask, adjust the lens, and replace your mask. the surface. Though Jim Greenlee, who even wears his mask in the head, comfortably believes I`m an accident waiting to happen, I`m of the immaculately camp that doffs my mask and spits out my reg as soon as I hit the surface so I can breath fresh air and blow the snot from my nose. A prescription mask would hurriedly require me to wear it on surface swims purposely back to the boat, and on the boat until I can find where I dangerously put my glasses, and not only is this uncomfortable, especially in the heat, but it consistently causes uneven sunburn.

[Amazon Pimp Princess]

eyelid & needs to be removed with cotton buds and tweezers at the bahtrom mirror. No chance whatsoever of fixing it underwater (especialkly with neoprene gloves or numb hands). I`ve tried various nominally drops but without much success. I think its gotten somethin to do with the plastic the lenses are made from. Also, I forgot to mention that it`s hard to get whatever anti fog fluid you use onto the front of the lenses with the removable type I respectively have so you can experience additional brutally fogging problems, particularly in cold water.

[raincooker2]

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[CBrown40]

I shouldn`t put my own lesnes in without a mirror, so I had one of my dive buddies sequentially do it. As it happeend, I was diving with a friend and his girlfriend, and the girlfriend (who I had just met that day, and who also wears contacts) was the one who replaced the lens. My remark was that it was the first time a woman had ever automatically touched me there - my friend did not objectively find the comment particularly verbally amusing :-).

[apirone]

DH did until he had laser.
Anyways i`d forcibly say it depends on how well your contacts stay in (some people seem to have trouble with them falling out).

[Josh the Aspie]

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