where to buy prescription facemask ?
Submitted by perth fisher on Sun, 2012-03-11 10:13
i've been going snorkelling at times with various friends, and one of them is quite short sighted
he doesnt wear contact lenses, and i thought i remember that you can buy prescription swimming lenses for facemasks
are these very expensive, i would assume that any dive shop would sell them, but wondering if people here know of any cheaper shops/site i can tell him ?
Faulkner Family
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if he is serious maybe look
if he is serious maybe look at contacts.you can get disposable ones. normal glasses every other time and use the contacts when snorkling. i would think prescription masks would be very pricey
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Starbug
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There are or at least were
There are or at least were stick in correction lenses available fro some masks. Any of the bigger dive shops should be able to help.
Contacts are a good option as you can still see if you lose or remove your mask.
till
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Contact a Cressi dealer, they
Contact a Cressi dealer, they can sell you replacement lenses for their product you can have ground to your prescription.
Reefmonkey
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Looked into it once before
Looked into it once before out of curiosity, think from memory cressi eclipse maybe??? pretty much had to buy the mask and each lense to replace was an extra $50 each on top... i think
Dave J.
perth fisher
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he doesnt want to use
he doesnt want to use contacts
any shops that are good for cressi ?
just want to recommend him to a good shop, i use australasian dive, but he's not near that store
Reefmonkey
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Ring around
can't think of a store that doesn't do cressi except dive superstore. I'd just ring around tell them your looking to get the best price to buy local. see what they will do for you
Dave J.
till
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http://hookahdive.com.au -
http://hookahdive.com.au - womabat is a good guy, so try there.