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I have asked this before but amazingly it doesn’t show up in the search bar.
How have people achieved the best results.? I’m thinking something that converts Mrs zips current goggles as we know they fit.
She is most concerned that she can’t see what she is doing when climbing over the rocks to get in . What are the numbers we need to use to order lenses? Spec savers don’t seem keen to order them in ,so thought I’d ask experts!
I would guess she doesn’t need to see stuff more than 20 feet away when we are in the water. She will only be snorkelling on the surface.
Axis optical have re-glazed my diving masks for years, they bond the lenses onto the inside of the mask.
http://www.axisoptical.co.uk/services.html
looks like they have their own dive mask website now http://www.divesight.co.uk/
I have lenses bonded to the goggles, can't remember who did it, great in the water but without glasses I do struggle walking to and from the shoreline and if I'm in a rib and it makes me feel sea sick (and I'm pretty robust usually).
I used to use contacts which I preferred but my optician had a panic when I mentioned it and as I started to do more complex stuff it just added an unnecessary level of potential complexity.
In STW style not to answer the OP (well it is indirectly) there was a mask developed with curved lenses that rectified the distortion and had a greater field of view than standard masks. The only thing was you need to be longsighted or wear contacts that gave you a + prescription...this could all be nonsense or may have be a fad at the time but I haven't dived for 5-7 years now. I'll see how my googlefu is....
If the front surface is flat, there’s no need to compensate the prescription, but it’s much harder to get the optics right on a flat fronted plus lens.
There are other things that make it difficult, such as the distance to the eye.
Please don’t wear contact lenses, any contact with water can open you up to horrendous infections. I know there will be people who have done this for years, so it’s up to you,
But I have to say it.
My cousin has Acanthamoeba keratitis, from showering once in contacts. Day and night drops, and two corneal grafts later, she has no sight in that eye. It’s really sad.