anyone wear hood over dive mask strap?

[ballastbelly]

in summer my new mares mask never leaked a drop.since i started with my hood i am continually flooding. i came across this photo below showing a mask strap under the hood.
am going to try this the next time i go. was wondering if anyone here does this?
thx






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[Brian Sharpe]

I haven't tried it myself but I know there have been several threads about it & the response seemed to be about 50/50 either way.

 

[David_57]

Can be caused by hood wrinkling the sides of your face creating a leak path I purchased a hood that fit a little loose and they fixed the problem.

 

[j yaeger]

i have a hood with shark fin top-pectorial fin sides,and a 2' long tail
my strap has to be inside!!!!
any other hood,i wear outside
have fun
yaeg

 

[warmwaterturner]

Are you sure that the smallest bit of the hood is not under the seal? That will cause a flood in a heartbeat.

 

[diver 85]

in summer my new mares mask never leaked a drop.since i started with my hood i am continually flooding. i came across this photo below showing a mask strap under the hood.
am going to try this the next time i go. was wondering if anyone here does this?
thx






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You don't mean like this:

or like this:

It's me in both--the 1st a buddy took, the 2nd one was a self pic..It's the way I go on a hood....

 

[DMDavid]

I normally go with the mask strap on the inside but I only do it because sometimes I like to pull the hood back off my head.
But I can see how depending on the mask and hood you might encounter flooding problems.

Does your hood have a way to vent air?
Sometimes trapped air will cause the hood to shift around and break the seal on the mask.

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

You can try this too, attaches directly to your hood and if one strap breaks, you don't lose the mask. I've tried it a couple of times and really like it so far. Especially after losing a mask before, I like the extra insurance.

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[LeadTurn_SD]

I use 3mm and 5mm hoods (summer and winter, respectively). I wear the hood over the mask strap.

I'd suggest trying it both ways. Often a non-leaking mast will leak when you wear a hood, simply because the hood presses on the skirt, the skirt rides up over the edge of the hood, etc. You should be able to trim the hood so that it fits your mask.... but sometimes a hood seems to change the way your mask fits.

Good luck, and Best Wishes.

 

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I wear the mask under the hood so I don't have to every adjust the strap for diving with or without the hood. It also gives me a little extra protection from loosing the mask (expensive atomic with magnifier lenses). It works for me, just can't do the dork diver MOF thing as easy.