Hi all, our family has been diving "for eternity" on Aqualung framed masks - never fit perfectly, but were OK with some leakage and some fogging but never bothered to upgrade. Now even the skirts are so stiff that it is finally time to find something else.
Based on several rental masks I've tested in dive shops, I would certainly go with a frameless single-glass design.
I've narrowed the selection down to:
(a) Tusa Zensee Pro (UV, AR coating, clear crystal)
(b) Apeks VX1 UV cut (UV coating, clear crystal)
(c) Xdeep Radical (clear crystal only)
I was able to try to Apeks VX1 (regular, not UV coated) and it felt good; not blown away but good. Minimal fogging and minimal leakage. But have no ability to test the others and would need to just buy.
Any recommendation on the above?
Also, a side question: do all these "coated" masks still require all the breaking in as we used to do with toothpaste, sea buff and the like? As far as I am aware AR coating (and possibly other coatings) can be very sensitive to abrasion, so really wonder if even in this day and age we still need to do these kind of preps or do masks come a bit more "ready to go"?
Many thanks in advance!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Based on several rental masks I've tested in dive shops, I would certainly go with a frameless single-glass design.
I've narrowed the selection down to:
(a) Tusa Zensee Pro (UV, AR coating, clear crystal)
(b) Apeks VX1 UV cut (UV coating, clear crystal)
(c) Xdeep Radical (clear crystal only)
I was able to try to Apeks VX1 (regular, not UV coated) and it felt good; not blown away but good. Minimal fogging and minimal leakage. But have no ability to test the others and would need to just buy.
Any recommendation on the above?
Also, a side question: do all these "coated" masks still require all the breaking in as we used to do with toothpaste, sea buff and the like? As far as I am aware AR coating (and possibly other coatings) can be very sensitive to abrasion, so really wonder if even in this day and age we still need to do these kind of preps or do masks come a bit more "ready to go"?
Many thanks in advance!