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I took the Marina for a dive last night - about an hour before sunset. Visibility was variable between 5 and 15 meters depending on the area, thermalcline etc. I didn't bring my camera since it was near sunset.
I mounted an impulse 3 snork on the marina and went monofinning.

The mask rocks! I tested the seal by turning my head all the way to each side, lookin up, rolling over on my back and doing all that while flying along with the fin. I normally use my impulse two snork because I like the mask attachment better - but the impulse 3 works well with the sphera and has a lower profile. With the Marina it was a little irritating - it would slide back and the clip on the impulse 3 made it a little annoying. It didn't break the seal on the mask however.

The Marina is extremely low volume. It's got to be pretty close to the sphera that way. The seal was more robust than my other masks - with less leakage than alien, sphera or matrix (pretty much none). Field of vision was as I said above - basically I could forget about the mask - other than it fogging up like any new mask that hasn't had the toothpaste treatement. Even that mostly went away after a few spit-shines. Defintely my new primary mask - now that I have contacts (the other purpose of the dive was to test out the contacts with an uncorrected mask).

On another note - I also dove with my sphera - the first one I tried corrected my nearsightedness almost perfectly (which made it horrible with my contacts)- but something weird happened with the lens coating after only a couple of dives. The second one seemed not to correct at all - so I wanted to try it with the contacts. Turns out it does correct a little - enough to make the weak prescription I use for diving in my contacts pretty much right up to my full one. Must be different lots or something with the spheras; there is definitely significant variance with the lenses.

Jon, thanks for your initial review of this mask - it is really a masterpiece. I haven't used masks like the abyss, bandit, super ochio etc. but this has got to be as low or lower in volume - with better peripheral vision. The trick is really in the angled lenses - which are mounted very close to the eyes. In fact if I wear the mask off-center I can feel the lens with my eyelashes.