Prescription snorkel mask
Prescription snorkel mask
Author
Discussion

fourstardan

Original Poster:

5,648 posts

160 months

Thursday 8th August 2024
quotequote all
Has anybody got any cheap options for a prescription mask?

About 50 quid would be the limit.

Scrump

23,482 posts

174 months

Thursday 8th August 2024
quotequote all
When I needed one, many years ago, I went to a local dive shop and they ordered one in for me. I don’t recall it being expensive.

David_M

435 posts

66 months

Thursday 8th August 2024
quotequote all
Replying to suggest other things, given you didn't specifically exclude them.

Would goggles do? in which case they are quite cheap and simple to order https://www.speedo.com/goggles/prescription-goggle...

I suggest goggles as on a recent trip that involved a lot of snorkelling I just couldn't get on with the mask that I had bought. Having a beard and therefore moustache really does not help with the sealing and it drove me nuts until I just reverted to my goggles (I swim several times a week usually) and they were dramatically better. What I could really have done with then was a nose clip, although breathing through a snorkel was actually ok my nose "flooded" and I had to think about it. Nose clips cost buttons.

fourstardan

Original Poster:

5,648 posts

160 months

Thursday 8th August 2024
quotequote all
David_M said:
Replying to suggest other things, given you didn't specifically exclude them.

Would goggles do? in which case they are quite cheap and simple to order https://www.speedo.com/goggles/prescription-goggle...

I suggest goggles as on a recent trip that involved a lot of snorkelling I just couldn't get on with the mask that I had bought. Having a beard and therefore moustache really does not help with the sealing and it drove me nuts until I just reverted to my goggles (I swim several times a week usually) and they were dramatically better. What I could really have done with then was a nose clip, although breathing through a snorkel was actually ok my nose "flooded" and I had to think about it. Nose clips cost buttons.
Thanks but id need bugle coverage, these are a good price though!


Super Josh

207 posts

235 months

Thursday 8th August 2024
quotequote all
Regarding prescription goggles, the current Mrs SJ has a different prescription for each eye. I ordered a pair of the correct prescription for each eye and then took a left from one pair and a right from the other to make up a pair that worked for her