prescription goggles

[amy1007]

I would like to order a snorkeling mask with prescription lenses. Does anyone have any info on this?

 

[Psiklops]

amy1007:

Here are a couple of sites you can try. I haven't used any of them personnally since I don't wear glasses, but they may be a start.

http://www.discountdivers.com/fx/snorkel_mask1.html

http://www.tgoemall.com/mallprescrip.htm

Hope this helps!

- Jim

(All I did was go to Google - http://www.google.com - and searched on Snorkeling and Prescription)

 

[abitjaded]

You might want to go directly to a dive shop, rather than ordering on line, at least to make sure the type and brand you order fits. The new soft silicone masks need to fit your face or they do a really lousy job of keeping out the water. If you are adding the expense of prescription lenses, it would be sad to have a leaky mask. Fit around the eyes (it is easy to get too wide) and around your upper lip, with the snorkel or regulator in place, are critical. There are also different types, split or single, rated for depths during just a snorkel or for greater depths if diving.

 

[kml2000]

I must be sheltered but I have never even heard of prescription goggles. Can anyone tell me how strong the prescription lenses are?? Do you take your prescription from the eye doctor. My vision is pretty bad................I usually wear my contacts with regular goggles and haven't had problems. However, I do worry about losing my contacts...but I have to be able to see!

 

[prymsu]

My snorkel mask has my personal prescription lenses cut and glued to the inside of a mask. This is wonderful. No worrying about getting salt water in my eyes if i am wearing contacts. And what a difference it makes when you don't have contacts in.

I had to by my mask, and you drop it off at the eye doctor. Then in a couple of weeks you will get your mask back with your prescription. It cost me about 55 bucks, and that is about five times cheaper than any pair of glasses i have ever had to buy. I would highly recommend this...

 

[liza]

I bought my prescription mask (years ago) through a dive shop -- found a mask that fit (it had to be a two-lens mask, not the kind with one continuous lens covering both eyes), and gave the dive shop my eyeglasses prescription from my ophthamologist, and picked up my mask several weeks later. I used it successfully for more than 10 years. I was extremely nearsighted (more than an 8), and could see well with the mask. It did not have glasses lenses glued to it; the glass part of the mask was itself a prescription lens.

Last year I got LASIK and then had to go buy a regular, nonprescription mask.

I bought a prescription mask for my father years ago. He wore bifocals and they were able to make a bifocal mask.

Good luck!

 

[amy1007]

I am trying to do this for my daughter. I took the mask to her eye doc, but she said that she could not do it. I have called a dive shop and looked at several web sites, but the cost is going to be more than I want to pay.....around 200 dollars. Sue, I like your answer!! I will keep trying, now that I know it is possible to get them for around 55 bucks! Thanks!

 

[prymsu]

Amy,

ask them about glueing the lenses in rather than replacing the whole lens across the mass. this may be why it was so cheap. They don't have to cut the lenses to any precision that must be perfectly fit with the frame. Also, my VSP insurance even paid for part of the lenses. maybe check with other eye doctors in your area...