Do you dive with a backup mask?

[JeffG]

Yes... there is also a perceived need for the pocket. The pocket doesn't just have a spare mask... there's also some emergency/utility items...

like beer.

 

[Blackwood]

Every dive, clipped to line in right bellows pocket.

I've used it once when the slap strap on my primary decided to give up.

Can I dive without one? Sure. Do I want to? Not particularly. I dive to see stuff, not to remember what my vision was like before I got lasik

 

[Blackwood]

you can glue pockets to wetsuits too

s'what I use.

 

[NewFloridaDiver]

I've experimented with using swim googles for backup when solo diving. They work OK for reading guages but your choices are limited to ascend or stop. I guess you could remove them if you had to descend. They are easier to store than a full mask.

I would think it'd be very difficult to clear swim goggles. I don't have anyplace to store a backup mask on my BC, so what to do with it? Maybe put it around the lower end of your tank and secure it somehow with a bungie or some method where you can easily grab it?

 

[Paco II]

Is there a type of glue I should use, or avoid using?

 

[Ben_ca]

like beer.

Clipped off to the bungie right? If not you are so gonna die Jeff.



ps... and be thirsty

Paco try the XShorts... that way you have pockets and you can ebay them later if they don't work out...

 

[MSilvia]

Is there a type of glue I should use, or avoid using?

Put the pocket on the suit and trace it's outline with chalk.
Clean the back of the pocket and the area you marked on the suit with Cotol.
Brush Aquaseal over the areas cleaned with Cotol, and after letting them set up for the recommended amount of time, stick the pocket to the suit and clamp it.
I usually use a phone book and some dive weights as a "clamp".

I also keep my mask in the right bellows pocket that I glued onto my suit. I have a pocket on the left too... for other stuff.

 

[Mark_J]

I carry a spare mask on the boat or to the beach but I don't dive with the spare unless it's a deep dive.

 

[Blackwood]

like beer.

I keep my beer in my DSS hydration bladder

 

[String]

Without my mask i cant read my gauges. Therefore its not safe.
Therefore i always carry a backup in my drysuit pocket.