Yes, you can wear contact lenses while snorkeling. Soft lenses adjust to water pressure better than hard lenses. You should also keep your eyes closed when taking off your mask.
In addition, there are a few common sense and safety rules that you will need to abide by. Following these simple and handy tips will help you get the most out of this very pleasurable experience. They will also help you stay safe while you view the true beauty of the undersea world.
The first thing you should keep in mind is that you should soft, rather than hard, contact lenses. Soft lenses are better able to adjust to the pressure of the water and won’t tend to blur as you go a bit deeper. Hard contact lenses will have a more difficult time adjusting to pressure and definitely do tend to blur.
You should also take care to keep your eyes closed when you take off your snorkel mask. This is due to the fact that keeping them open as you surface may allow water to work its way into your mask. As it does so, it could also drip into your contact lenses, causing them to get blurry. Keeping your eyes closed will avoid this hazard.
In most cases, it’s perfectly safe to wear soft contact lenses while you snorkel. The secret is to follow all of the above listed safety tips. Soft contact lenses will be able to adapt much more quickly to the increasing pressure of the water. They will also give you a much higher level of pure visibility than hard contact lenses can.
Do Contacts Help You See Underwater?
If you need to wear contacts on land, you should probably consider wearing them as you snorkel. This is because you need to see at all times where you are and where you are heading. You need to pay attention to what is happening around you. And you will definitely need to be able to respond effectively if someone else gets in trouble.
Wearing contact lenses will help you see underwater. The trick is to wear soft lenses so that you won’t have any problems with adjusting to changing water pressure. Soft contact lenses are also much less prone to blurring than hard lenses. These are the style that we highly recommend if you are going to snorkel with your contacts in.
It’s a good idea to carry a spare pair of contacts in case something happens and you lose one or both. Bring an extra pair and leave them on a case on the boat so that you can gain quick access to them as needed. If water gets in your mask as you surface, you will need to take out your lenses and replace them with the spares you brought.
There is a great deal to observe under the surface of the water. As you snorkel, you will want to take the view in as clearly and directly as possible. If you need contacts to help you do so, you should certainly wear them. As long as you follow these handy safety and maintenance tips, there should be no problems as a result.
How Do You Wear Glasses Or Contacts While Snorkeling?
The first thing you need to know is that, if your eyesight is only slightly bad enough to require you to wear glasses on land, you may not actually need them in the water. This is because your lens under water becomes a natural magnifying lens, multiplying images in your sight by a factor of 25 percent.
This natural magnification factor may be more than enough to compensate for not wearing glasses. However, if you definitely do need to use glasses under the sea as well as on land, don’t panic. There are plenty of handy options that you can make use of in order to wear your glasses safely while you snorkel under the waves.
There are a few special snorkel masks that can feature your prescription lenses as a part of the design. This means that you will not have to go through the trouble of bringing your glasses down with you as your snorkel. The only issue here is that they need to be specially made and will therefore cost you a pretty penny.
If you are snorkeling on a budget, you can take an old pair of corrective lenses and glue them to the lenses of the mask. You’ll have to sacrifice this pair but, if you already have newer glasses, it may just be worth it.
Be sure that your lenses are glued precisely to fit the shape of the mask so that you can see through them clearly. If you fail to do so, you may have all kinds of problems with vision, including distortion, fragmentation, or multiplication. A tight fit for the lenses on to the mask will avoid this problem.
What Happens To Contact Lenses In Salt Water?
It’s a good idea to make sure that you keep your snorkel mask on at all times while you are under the surface of the water. This is especially true when you are wearing contact lenses under your snorkel mask. And it is even more the case when you are snorkeling in salt water. This is due to a number of very critical factors.
Salt water has much more of a tendency to irritate your eyes than fresh water if it gets into your mask. This is because salt is basically sodium chloride, a solution that is very abrasive by nature. You don’t want salt water permeating through your mask and into your contacts. Irritation, swelling, and pain will be the result.
If you are going to be using contacts under salt water, it’s best to make use of soft lenses, They tend to be much more flexible and more adaptable to changing water pressure. They will also tend to let less salt water into your eyes if you should take off your mask by accident before you get back to the surface.