Prescription swimming goggles/mask
Discussion
I'm looking for a reasonable pair of prescription goggles / mask at about the £20 to £30 mark for a holiday later in the year. I saw some by Zoggs in TK Maxx on the weekend for only £3.99, but they only had a -5.5 dioptre. I am just over -8, and most makes I've found only go to an 8 maximum, but that's not too much trouble for a bit of swimming about in the sea. Basically I want to be able to look down at the fish and dive down a metre or two.
Does anyone use prescription goggles, or can tell me what brands to avoid and any reputable websites to buy from?
Is there any benefit to getting a diving mask as opposed to goggles. Goggles would seem to be more flexible for sea and pool.
Zoggs appears to be good but it looks like their range only goes to a -6.
Cheers me dears.
Does anyone use prescription goggles, or can tell me what brands to avoid and any reputable websites to buy from?
Is there any benefit to getting a diving mask as opposed to goggles. Goggles would seem to be more flexible for sea and pool.
Zoggs appears to be good but it looks like their range only goes to a -6.
Cheers me dears.
MikeyT said:
Simpo Two said:
-8!! I'm surprised you can even FIND the sea 
get some bloody contact lens man!
Edited by MikeyT on Tuesday 26th August 14:18
I wish I could do the learned man sitting in a pub corner bit, reading Dostoevsky, when a young female student in a duffle coat (but you know she's really hot underneath) would keep looking over ... and, after a fashion, I would place the book down onto the solid wood table, take off my glasses in a considered manner, arrange my tie a little and raise my gaze slowly to look into her eyes with a knowing smile that meant "I'm an erudite, cultured guy - an author, architect, composer and a circus strongman in my spare time and I'll be banging you tonight".
Unfortunately, with my prescription, I'd be giving the look to Chris f
king Tarrant on the quiz machine.V8S said:
-8.25 and -8.5 no less!
On holiday last time I was most pissed off when the OH kept swimming back to me, saying there's a huge shoal of fish down there. I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
I may just take two milk bottles.
I'm -6.25 and -9.00 and couldn't find anything to fit my prescription. I ended up with some as strong as I could get (-8 from memory) as it was only for in the pool. I'd go down the contact lense route if I were you as a mask (again from memory) was also limited at higher prescriptions. I also have an astigmatism and you won't get googles/a mask to fix that although contacts will.On holiday last time I was most pissed off when the OH kept swimming back to me, saying there's a huge shoal of fish down there. I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
I may just take two milk bottles.
HTH
V8S said:
Is there any benefit to getting a diving mask as opposed to goggles. Goggles would seem to be more flexible for sea and pool.
Snorkelling and diving would seem two good ones. SWMBO got a prescription mask after I pointed out an octopus in a crack while snorkelling and she got her nose about 6 inches away before working out what it wassharkfan said:
V8S said:
-8.25 and -8.5 no less!
On holiday last time I was most pissed off when the OH kept swimming back to me, saying there's a huge shoal of fish down there. I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
I may just take two milk bottles.
I'm -6.25 and -9.00 and couldn't find anything to fit my prescription. I ended up with some as strong as I could get (-8 from memory) as it was only for in the pool. I'd go down the contact lense route if I were you as a mask (again from memory) was also limited at higher prescriptions. I also have an astigmatism and you won't get googles/a mask to fix that although contacts will.On holiday last time I was most pissed off when the OH kept swimming back to me, saying there's a huge shoal of fish down there. I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
I may just take two milk bottles.
HTH
E.g.
http://www.prescription-swimming-goggles.co.uk/aca...
Those go up to a -10.
Wacky Racer said:
Ta.Have you bought stuff from here? Looking for a recommendation from the PH Gentleman's Club as there are lots of websites out there.
V8S said:
sharkfan said:
V8S said:
-8.25 and -8.5 no less!
On holiday last time I was most pissed off when the OH kept swimming back to me, saying there's a huge shoal of fish down there. I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
I may just take two milk bottles.
I'm -6.25 and -9.00 and couldn't find anything to fit my prescription. I ended up with some as strong as I could get (-8 from memory) as it was only for in the pool. I'd go down the contact lense route if I were you as a mask (again from memory) was also limited at higher prescriptions. I also have an astigmatism and you won't get googles/a mask to fix that although contacts will.On holiday last time I was most pissed off when the OH kept swimming back to me, saying there's a huge shoal of fish down there. I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!
I may just take two milk bottles.
HTH
E.g.
http://www.prescription-swimming-goggles.co.uk/aca...
Those go up to a -10.
V8S said:
Wacky Racer said:
Ta.Have you bought stuff from here? Looking for a recommendation from the PH Gentleman's Club as there are lots of websites out there.
They were very good and the regular catalogue is full of fitties!!
V8S said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Specsavers...
Christ, I though I was bad enough at -3.5....
Specsavers (et al) - I'd rather not go down the route of spending a couple hundred on bespoke lenses, seeing as I'm just going to be fannying about in the Med or somewhere for a week.Christ, I though I was bad enough at -3.5....
tonyvid said:
V8S said:
Wacky Racer said:
Ta.Have you bought stuff from here? Looking for a recommendation from the PH Gentleman's Club as there are lots of websites out there.
They were very good and the regular catalogue is full of fitties!!
Fit girls in swimwear always welcome, especially if provided in the innocence of a product catalogue.
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