(Ok, ok, so they don't really RHYME, but it still looks cool....) Anyway...
Does anyone else have issues with mask flooding? Or even just mildly annoying leakage, like just under the nose? I have a Sphera, a Cressi Minima, and a Dacor Bandit (El Floodo), and they ALL flood or leak on me. The Sphera is the least of the offenders, but I'm getting a bit weary of having to deal with water gurgling around under my nostrils, threatening to be inhaled, and mainly messing with my relaxation during a dive! Not to mention during entry when, in the few seconds before I can grab my nose for equalizing, sometimes it goes UP my nose. INSTANT ruined dive. I've tried experimenting with strap tightness, position on my face (which really doesn't matter, they all end up "settled" in the same spot during my breathe ups, anyway, especially during the purge phase), always making sure my hood is NOT under the skirt...and nothing seems to help. It's very RARE that I manage a DRY dive, with no water making it's way into the mask. It seems that, after every dive, I have to dump the water. What can I do? Is there anything I even CAN do? I know it's not an issue of the masks not fitting, since they ALL pass the "suction test" (hold mask to face, inhale through nose, let go, mask stays put). I'm also clean shaven, for this very reason. Maybe I just have a weird face (my main area of water entry seems to be the canyons beside my nose). Help! :head
Todd
Does anyone else have issues with mask flooding? Or even just mildly annoying leakage, like just under the nose? I have a Sphera, a Cressi Minima, and a Dacor Bandit (El Floodo), and they ALL flood or leak on me. The Sphera is the least of the offenders, but I'm getting a bit weary of having to deal with water gurgling around under my nostrils, threatening to be inhaled, and mainly messing with my relaxation during a dive! Not to mention during entry when, in the few seconds before I can grab my nose for equalizing, sometimes it goes UP my nose. INSTANT ruined dive. I've tried experimenting with strap tightness, position on my face (which really doesn't matter, they all end up "settled" in the same spot during my breathe ups, anyway, especially during the purge phase), always making sure my hood is NOT under the skirt...and nothing seems to help. It's very RARE that I manage a DRY dive, with no water making it's way into the mask. It seems that, after every dive, I have to dump the water. What can I do? Is there anything I even CAN do? I know it's not an issue of the masks not fitting, since they ALL pass the "suction test" (hold mask to face, inhale through nose, let go, mask stays put). I'm also clean shaven, for this very reason. Maybe I just have a weird face (my main area of water entry seems to be the canyons beside my nose). Help! :head
Todd
