So I've covered wetsuit and fins questions for far, (thanks for all of the great responses!) and now comes the mask/goggles...
I'm only going to be diving up to 50 ft (so I say now, but we'll see, at least its what I'm telling my partner who is worried about me getting involved in this sport! , and that's the limit in our river anyway where I'm doing my main diving, and really I'm more interested in staying down longer underwater for maybe getting into spearfishing or seafood gathering, etc, than going really deep.
So far I've been using a pair of goggles but only gone down about 25-30 ft, so get a bit of pressure but not too bad. They aren't great goggles for keeping water out and they bite around the eyes. i don't really like snorkel masks since I don't like my nose being covered up. I had a swim mask once (like snorkel mask, smaller, without the nose covered), and liked that but it didn't last long. So I'm trying to find a decent quality swim mask or good quality goggles that don't bite around the eyes. I'm just learning about freediving goggles and the equalization thing, but I am guessing for up to 50 ft I won't really need those specialized ones?
Any thoughts on what would be adequate for shallower depths? I like having a wider field of vision which my current Swedish style goggles offer, so I think a swim mask would be good, but so far just finding ones with bad reviews about leakage and breaking easily, etc.
Any suggestions appreciated!
I'm only going to be diving up to 50 ft (so I say now, but we'll see, at least its what I'm telling my partner who is worried about me getting involved in this sport! , and that's the limit in our river anyway where I'm doing my main diving, and really I'm more interested in staying down longer underwater for maybe getting into spearfishing or seafood gathering, etc, than going really deep.
So far I've been using a pair of goggles but only gone down about 25-30 ft, so get a bit of pressure but not too bad. They aren't great goggles for keeping water out and they bite around the eyes. i don't really like snorkel masks since I don't like my nose being covered up. I had a swim mask once (like snorkel mask, smaller, without the nose covered), and liked that but it didn't last long. So I'm trying to find a decent quality swim mask or good quality goggles that don't bite around the eyes. I'm just learning about freediving goggles and the equalization thing, but I am guessing for up to 50 ft I won't really need those specialized ones?
Any thoughts on what would be adequate for shallower depths? I like having a wider field of vision which my current Swedish style goggles offer, so I think a swim mask would be good, but so far just finding ones with bad reviews about leakage and breaking easily, etc.
Any suggestions appreciated!