SE> Dive masks need to be carefully fit to the face, just like a pair
SE> of shoes needs to be fit to the feet.  Many of the popular wide-angle
CL> True, but in some cases you can have a mask that's not 100%. But the 
CL> perfect mask is the best in all cases.
SE> masks are designed to fit very wide faces, and as a result, they
SE> tend to leak on a lot of people.
Just thought I'd add my two cents in on this discussion.  I, for one, do not 
like the style of mask that has the separate nose pocket.  I prefer the older 
style that has the nose enclosed behind the window itself with moulded finger 
pockets for equalizing.  I know tbis style is not as popular at the moment 
but I find that these styles will fit a wider range of people in general than 
the nose pocket styles.  It certainly makes laugh lines and such less of a 
problem.  As everyone says it's all a compromise of one sort of another.  The 
"single pane" style has a higher profile and volume but unless you are diving 
in a pretty brisk cross current, not drift diving where you are moving with 
the current but where you are rying to hold a station.  Everyone I've met can 
still more than clear one of these models easily with a single exhalation.  
Oh well, the dinosaur has spoken.
 
Be wet and well.
 
Dennis
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