Last edited by SoCalDiveGirl; 04-09-2007 at 06:19 AM.
MissyHello, Hello
Hola!
I'm at a place called Vertigo
¿Dónde está?
It's everything I wish I didn't know
Im either. On top or under rubber strap or neoprene. Some masks feel better certain ways. No worries about masks getting kicked off either i carry a spare.
Matt
Some day and that day will come you will be on a dive with some Noobs and a 300 pound guy will come at you from out of the blue and that mask will get blown off your face as he comes looking for the regulator that is in your mouth. .......... spare mask is nice but why carry something to solve a problem you never would have had in the first place?
jds
Joel Silverstein, VP COO
Tech Diving Limited - Everything Tech
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Uh Missy ... your hair will not get tangled IF you follow the instructions. Before the dive just put a dab of conditioner in your hands and run it through your hair. Then Put the mask on and put strap in place. Then put hood up.
The neoprene strap cover actually makes the mask LESS secure since it increases the surface area of the strap and that in and of itself helps it act as a lever and even the smallest snag or tug on the cover from any edge will lift it up and let the mask dislodge.
Add to it the additional thickness of the neoprene strap allows more water to be inside the hood thereby decreasing the thermal efficency of the hood. The more water flow the colder you will be.
The reason a mask strap has the oval opening is so that it can have two places of formation around the back of the head. This gives the mask a three-point anchor.
Cheers
JDS
Last edited by JS1scuba; 04-09-2007 at 08:32 PM.
Joel Silverstein, VP COO
Tech Diving Limited - Everything Tech
Scuba Diving Limited - Everything Rec
New Playground
The more important question is how does Joel know how to keep hair from becoming entangled in his mask strap, like he has experienced that problem as of late
Bama,
It's true, I do not have the tangle problem with my hair. However after diving extensively since 1988, training more than 3000 divers, interacting with more than 30,000 on dive boats over the years I kinda have an idea as to how to solve some of these little problems.
:-)
Joel Silverstein, VP COO
Tech Diving Limited - Everything Tech
Scuba Diving Limited - Everything Rec
New Playground
Last edited by SoCalDiveGirl; 04-09-2007 at 08:34 PM.
MissyHello, Hello
Hola!
I'm at a place called Vertigo
¿Dónde está?
It's everything I wish I didn't know
JD is my goober cousin on my first wife's second side who dropped out of kindergarten and has worked at Waffle House, Bob's Big Boy, the Piggly Wigley and who from the last info we got lives in a trailer in the south someplace that ain't got no wheels.
Actually it's rare that you have a rubber strap anymore --- they are either black or clear (frosted) silicone.
And, If someday I make TDL mask strap covers -- i will make you a pink one.
JDS
Joel Silverstein, VP COO
Tech Diving Limited - Everything Tech
Scuba Diving Limited - Everything Rec
New Playground
You're impossible sometimes. Silicone/rubber - they pull hair. I have hair.. and I don't like it pulled (well, ok not by a mask strap).
Bob's Big Boy- I think thats in Baker, where the worlds largest thermometer resides.. I think it used to be called Bun Boy though.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bun_Boy
Last edited by SoCalDiveGirl; 04-09-2007 at 08:47 PM.
MissyHello, Hello
Hola!
I'm at a place called Vertigo
¿Dónde está?
It's everything I wish I didn't know