Masks for narrow faces?
When I started diving, I had a heck of a time finding suitable masks. I have a narrow face (i.e. narrow from side to side) and deepset eyes, and typically get leakage either to the side of the eye or along the cheek below the eye.
After (unsuccessfully) trying a lot of buddies' masks, I visited a freediving-specific shop with two or three dozen masks lined up on the wall. After trying a bunch of these I brought home an Omer Asia and an Omer Abyss.
The Asia is comfortable overall, but tends to leak a bit. The Abyss is more leak-proof, but I find the field of vision fairly restricted.
Apart from remodeling a Sphera per the instructions posted here, are there any off-the-shelf masks that people with faces like mine have found to be leak-free while offering a fairly good field of vision? For example I wonder how the Omer Millennium mask would be? A couple of people mentioned Cressi Big Eyes, but I tried one and found it leaked like a sieve on me. Thanks for any input!
When I started diving, I had a heck of a time finding suitable masks. I have a narrow face (i.e. narrow from side to side) and deepset eyes, and typically get leakage either to the side of the eye or along the cheek below the eye.
After (unsuccessfully) trying a lot of buddies' masks, I visited a freediving-specific shop with two or three dozen masks lined up on the wall. After trying a bunch of these I brought home an Omer Asia and an Omer Abyss.
The Asia is comfortable overall, but tends to leak a bit. The Abyss is more leak-proof, but I find the field of vision fairly restricted.
Apart from remodeling a Sphera per the instructions posted here, are there any off-the-shelf masks that people with faces like mine have found to be leak-free while offering a fairly good field of vision? For example I wonder how the Omer Millennium mask would be? A couple of people mentioned Cressi Big Eyes, but I tried one and found it leaked like a sieve on me. Thanks for any input!
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