Scleral Lenses!!!

[MFA]

Any one here heard of a SCLERAL LENSES.I heared about it a long time ago. Scleral is the white part of the eye and I think that is why they'r called scleral lenses. Anyway I looked on the net and found a manufacturer whom he gave me some doc's # near my town. I called and he is suppose to get back to me on the price. Then I will go to get fitted for them. As I understand they' fitted to fit only your eye. So let see how that gose.I'll keep you guys posted if your interested. But just the idea of not wearing a mask a seeing underwater sounds soooo freaking cool. The doc said it will be around $350 to $400 but he said he will get back to me on that.Any body used them before?? If yes please let me know what's up?? I hope that they'll work and I wont waste my money.
MFA

 

[Pinggene]

Be certain that they don't allow water in at all...dirty water on the eye at time promotes a bacteria or ameba (sp) growth that can cause significant harm. Many, who wear contacts, use disposable & toss them after the dive due to this.

Safe diving...peace.

Gene

 

[Jon]

Sounds like a good price for them if he's legitimate about it- prices I've read in the past are in the thousands of dollars. They are also said to be rather painfull and only good for short periods of time.

Another wat to go would be to buy a pair of fluid goggles made by Eric Fattah. Liquivision F1 and Fluid Goggles Home


Jon

 

[wet]

Any one here heard of a SCLERAL LENSES.I heared about it a long time ago. Scleral is the white part of the eye and I think that is why they'r called scleral lenses. Anyway I looked on the net and found a manufacturer whom he gave me some doc's # near my town. I called and he is suppose to get back to me on the price. Then I will go to get fitted for them. As I understand they' fitted to fit only your eye. So let see how that gose.I'll keep you guys posted if your interested. But just the idea of not wearing a mask a seeing underwater sounds soooo freaking cool. The doc said it will be around $350 to $400 but he said he will get back to me on that.Any body used them before?? If yes please let me know what's up?? I hope that they'll work and I wont waste my money.
MFA

I can't comment on these lens, but sclerae are the eye whites. I haven't heard of scleral before, perhaps derived from sclerae.
DDeden

 

[MFA]

Hey,That is something to think about.I'll ask him and see but he is legitimate.That is for sure.How long they last??I don't care if they'r painfull.I'll learn to live with it.I only want them to work.
MFA

 

[style]

I am into the idea of building my own water filled swiming googles, I asked my science teatcher but he wasnt sure what lenses I should ues, he had an idea and gave me some lenses to try out. He thought they should be about dipotri 20, not sure of the english spelling.

Any1 know if thats correct or in other case what strength I need? The plan is to take a couple of svimming goggles, get a lens of the correct strength and hopefully size, othervise modify the lens and then glue the lens to the googles but leaving a hole so that water can enter infront of the lens.

Then use some type of medical eye cleaning fluid if I can find any cheap one.

 

[Bill]

I have no experience with the lenses. From stories, they are not easy to use and not very good for vision.
Try a search under liquid goggles and check out DIY liquid goggles. Diopter is only part of the story but if the lense doesn't let you focus at less than an inch(2cm) in air it probably isn't strong enough.
Aloha
Bill

 

[jome]

You can find the correct specs for the lenses with the search, as Bill suggested. It's been discussed many times in DB.

It's a fun project to build fluid goggles, but it is also surprisingly hard to get it right.

A lot of bad experiences I've heard from fluid goggles simply come from the fact that they were not build/adjusted quite right. It is really a pain in the butt to do. Even with Eric's Nirvana-2 goggles, which are adjustable, it took me several nights to get the lenses just so. If it is even one millimeter (heck, even less than that) off, you will get all kinds of fun stuff, such as double vision, blurring etc.

So for anyone who just tried a pair of someone else's goggles once and went "wow, that was overrated", you might want to try again with proper goggles.

In the end, when they are rightly adjusted, the vision is quite good. It is still not as good as with a mask or on dry land, but manageable. The only thing I've been unable to get rid of is slight magnification and thus reduced FOV.

But I also think the fluid goggles are not for everyone. Recreational divers simply don't need them and even competitive divers can get along just fine without them. Some of the deepest dives in history have been done with a mask...

But it's a fun gadget and can be very useful. But it takes time to both adjust the lenses and get comfortable with them. The first few time's you go out with them are not usually a very encouraging experience...