When you are snorkeling and you get water in your mask you simply raised your head out of the water, lift the mask and let the water drain. While diving, you cannot raise your head. You need to secure the mask at your forehead and exhale from your nose to clear the mask. Because you [...]
Removing and replacing a scuba mask is the skill that most new divers worry about. However with a few simple steps you can master this skill.
Mask clearing
Before you learn to remove and replace your mask completely you should practice clearing the mask until you are comfortable with this skill.
Remember – when you clear the mask [...]
More often than not, water seeps into the scuba mask to flood the compartments that are tightly sealed across the diver’s face. Now this won’t do well with the scuba diver’s field of vision, particularly when cruising dive sites with low-visibility profiles.Given the propensity to get a flooded mask during the dive, beginners are expertly [...]
It can be hard to enjoy scuba diving if you can’t see anything well enough, and it can also be dangerous. This includes when the mask fogs up or too much water gets into the mask.
Knowing about the methods of scuba mask clearing is essential for these reasons. By using the right scuba mask clearing [...]
