[Kman]

Hi all,
Just to clearify something with the Apnea Goggles I have not copied Eric's design and take nothing away from him as the first person to bring the liquid filled goggles to the freediving masses.

When I first tried apnea goggles, which happened to be a borrowed pair of Nirvana's, I was not that pleased with the vision above or below the water. After discussing the concept with a friend who has worked with the British Navy designing (amoungst other things, full glass contacts which allow perfect vision above and below the water back in the 1970's), he suggested that with what we do in freediving, we forget about vision above the water and work on really good vision below the water. He did some tests on the pair we had access too and found that the refraction from the goggle was not helping with vision, which brings me around to why I mount the lens into the goggle itself. There were a huge number of factors which also needed to be considered, but eventually I found a lens / goggle that worked well together.

My goggles are not a rip off of Eric's but something that I worked to design and build in their own right. It was not until I met Eric at Deans Blue Hole earlier this year that I was aware that Eric had also played with a similar design quite some time ago and more than likely before I even discovered freediving for myself.

Personally I like them for their low profile goggle, their clarity of vision and that I made them myself of course ;-) but the feed back I have had from everyone who has tried them (with the exception of one person, yes Giant, you know who you are with your big eyes that fit right into the goggle) has been overwhelmly positive.

Will Winram summed them up the best when he tried them for the first time at Dean's Blue Hole, when I received an e-mail while still in NZ that said "If you have enough goggles I would love to get a pair...just tried Kathryn's pair and Holy s@%# batman...they are amazing...much clearer under the water than the conventional fluid goggles"

Kerian