Freediving Masks
Freediving Masks: Your freediving mask is an important part of your kit as it is essentially your eyes underwater and having a low volume mask is crucial for freediving! As you descend through the water...
Freediving Masks: Your freediving mask is an important part of your kit as it is essentially your eyes underwater and having a low volume mask is crucial for freediving! As you descend through the water column the air inside the mask begins to compress meaning that your mask begins to 'squeeze' your face and eyeballs. Although the onset of this is quite slow, for serious divers going 15 meters and beyond requires a low volume mask.
Low volume masks are great for freediving as they require less air to be used to equalise the mask at a depth, therefore saving vital oxygen.
Before using a new dive mask you will need to get rid of the factory seal used to protect the mask while it is on the shelf. Rub toothpaste into the lens of your mask, leave for three minutes, wash off, and repeat this process three times to ensure that your new freediving mask does not fog up too much on its first use.
Alternative solutions are burning it away with a lighter, we're not sure if how toxic the smoke may be so we don't recommend this method. The best method we've found which is like the toothpaste method but using a specially formulated substance called Sea Buff - which is more effective than toothpaste.
Check out Taylor's tips on how to stop your mask from fogging!
Freediving Mask Features
- Low Volume - assists in equalising
- Wide Field of View - low volume masks bring the lenses closer to your eyes, creating a wider field.
- Dual lens vs Single Lens - most low volume masks are dual-lens as it allows the manufacturer to place the lenses behind the nose/closer to the eyes. There are only a handful of low volume single-lenses which you will find below.
Freediving Masks
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