| More often than not, water seeps into the scuba | | | | your forehead. |
| mask to flood the compartments that are tightly | | | | 3. Consequently blow through your nose to let air |
| sealed across the diver's face. Now this won't do well | | | | drive the water out of the mask. |
| with the scuba diver's field of vision, particularly when | | | | 4. Don't forget to exhale as you put your head back |
| cruising dive sites with low-visibility profiles. | | | | into position. This way, water is prevented from |
| Given the propensity to get a flooded mask during | | | | rushing into your nose. |
| the dive, beginners are expertly instructed to master | | | | Scuba Mask with Purge Button |
| the skill of clearing or purging water from the scuba | | | | Some scuba masks are outfitted with a one-way |
| mask. In fact, mask clearing is categorized as one of | | | | purge valve that is intended to assist the scuba diver |
| top scuba diving skills a neophyte diver should | | | | when the need to clear or purge water out of the |
| practice extensively while on training and then again | | | | mask arises. When using its purge assist, do the |
| during the safety stops of an open dive; until such | | | | following: |
| time that the diver becomes adept with pertinent | | | | |
| masks skills and comfortable over procedures related | | | | 1. Hold the scuba gear firmly with both hands; |
| to the scuba gear. Thus to get into the groove of | | | | particularly on both the upper end sections of the |
| scuba diving, a prospective diver should not only learn | | | | frame. |
| how to adjust the buckles, skirt and strap to get an | | | | 2. Bend and look down at an angle where the purge |
| air tight, comfortable fit but also master the methods | | | | button joins the lowest portion of the mask . |
| of purging water that settles on the bottom of the | | | | 3. Consequently exhale through your nose to let the |
| scuba gear to obscure the diver's view. | | | | air drive the water out through the purge mechanism. |
| Non Purge Scuba Mask | | | | Water in contact with the eyes forges a refracted |
| When using non purge scuba masks, water is cleared | | | | vision of images to promote a distorted view of |
| in the following manner: | | | | underwater surroundings. In this regard, the |
| | | | tempered lenses of the scuba mask creates an air |
| 1. Tilt your heads towards the surface. | | | | space, allowing light to permeate the eyes naturally |
| 2. Hold the scuba gear firmly using one hand; | | | | and making it possible for divers to see objects more |
| particularly over the upper middle section of the | | | | distinctively underwater. |
| frame so that the mask pushes a bit tightly against | | | | |