You can have prescription scuba lenses. please check your facts. have you seen the movie Notting Hill?
Hugh Grant wears his scuba mask to the movies beacuse his roomate is sitting on his glasses.
Hugh Grant wears his scuba mask to the movies beacuse his roomate is sitting on his glasses.
Originally posted by: KK
I guess you haven't seen the Jerk. Watch it, it will change your outlook not only on glasses but on life also.
I love Steve Martin! GReat Movie. Eyeglasses with handle on bridge! Whats your point though?
Yes, yes you can. I merely stated the fact that scuba diving is difficult in glasses, not with prescription scuba lenses. They cost about $120 per mask, from what I've seen, which is not very expensive. However, they won't help you should you get your mask kicked off your face, which can relatively often, especially when training a batch of beginner divers. This is why we train our beginner divers to be able to function without a mask, and to be able to clear the mask underwater, if recovered.
Perhaps using prescription goggles is the method you would recommend to Slag for windsurfing, jetskiing and swimming. However, I would hope that you would do so in a less abrasive manner than you used in your reply to me - stating that I should "check my facts" was unnecesary and confrontational, wouldn't you agree?
KK
Lifer
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Originally posted by: frankie38
Originally posted by: KK
I guess you haven't seen the Jerk. Watch it, it will change your outlook not only on glasses but on life also.
I love Steve Martin! GReat Movie. Eyeglasses with handle on bridge! Whats your point though?
No point, other than the opti-grab is bad.
Yes, yes you can. I merely stated the fact that scuba diving is difficult in glasses, not with prescription scuba lenses. They cost about $120 per mask, from what I've seen, which is not very expensive. However, they won't help you should you get your mask kicked off your face, which can relatively often, especially when training a batch of beginner divers. This is why we train our beginner divers to be able to function without a mask, and to be able to clear the mask underwater, if recovered.
Perhaps using prescription goggles is the method you would recommend to Slag for windsurfing, jetskiing and swimming.
No. Your suggestion not mine. So have credit for that comment.
However, I would hope that you would do so in a less abrasive manner than you used in your reply to me - stating that I should "check my facts" was unnecesary and confrontational, wouldn't you agree?
Do you feel threathened?, intimidated, or As Gov S would say " A girlie man".
Perhaps using prescription goggles is the method you would recommend to Slag for windsurfing, jetskiing and swimming.
No. Your suggestion not mine. So have credit for that comment.
However, I would hope that you would do so in a less abrasive manner than you used in your reply to me - stating that I should "check my facts" was unnecesary and confrontational, wouldn't you agree?
Do you feel threathened?, intimidated, or As Gov S would say " A girlie man".
con·fron·ta·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (knfrn-tshn)
n.
The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.
A conflict involving armed forces: a nuclear confrontation.
Discord or a clash of opinions and ideas: an age of ideological confrontation.
A focused comparison: an essay that brought elements of biography, autobiography, and general European history into powerful, meaningful confrontation.
Yes, I am being confrontational. Is that bad...no an open exchange of intelligent and factually correct ideas and opinions is good.
n.
The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.
A conflict involving armed forces: a nuclear confrontation.
Discord or a clash of opinions and ideas: an age of ideological confrontation.
A focused comparison: an essay that brought elements of biography, autobiography, and general European history into powerful, meaningful confrontation.
Yes, I am being confrontational. Is that bad...no an open exchange of intelligent and factually correct ideas and opinions is good.
Yes, but... you'll convince many more people if you merely state your case and are pleasant about it.
Let's move this to PM so the thread can continue to be devoted to LASIK discussion, shall we?
TastesLikeChicken
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I had LASIK surgery done last Friday. Went for the HD LASIK, also known as the waveform LASIK. They bounce lightwaves off of your retina and map the topology of your cornea to make very precise corrections. With the discounts offered it came to about $3500.00 total. My wife and I both had it done, though she was done a week earlier.
The actual process took about 20 minutes for both eyes, though I had to wait for my eyes to dilate which took about an hour. I decided not to take the valium they offered because I wanted to be alert and to make sure that I was focused on the blinking red light; and my wife didn't take it either so I didn't want to look like a wimp next to her.
The procedure itself is a little weird. It's one eye at a time, with a patch over the eye not being treated. They put a sticky plastic over your eyelids to keep your eyelashes out of the way, then they put this Clockwork Orange kind of device in to crank open your eyelids and completely expose the eyeball. Cutting the corneal flap was a little uncomfortable when they stick that vacuum ring on your eyeball, but other than that it was pretty much pain-free. Things get kind of wierd when the doc flips the flap up, and I tensed up when they told me the laser was firing, but that only took about 45 seconds or so. The rest of the time was putting the flap back in place and putting antibiotic and steroid drops in your eye. When everything is done, you can see, but it kind of looks like you're in a really smokey room so it's hard to tell if your vision is really any better.
The procedure was finished around 4pm and the wife drove me home. I rested my eyes for a few hours and when I reopened them at 7pm my vision was absolutely perfect. I could read the LED on the stereo receiver from across the living room. TV was sharp and the colors seems brighter and beeter than I remembered when looking through glasses. The next morning I went for my post-op (drove myself in) and tested 20/20 in my right eye and 20/15 in my left.
The only real problem I noticed was my close-up vision. Initially I couldn't even read the newspaper. Since a week has passed that's no longer a problem though. It's fantastic. No more fumbling for glasses just to see the alarm clock in the morning. Off-the-shelf sunglasses are an option once again. No more sweat dripping down on my glasses when I' mowing the lawn or golfing. I can go surfing and see the sets coming in from the horizon again.
The doc told me I was lucky to heal so fast. My wife took a bit longer, supposedly because her flaps were thicker. We're both very please with the results though. Highly recommended if you've got the cash to dish out.
The actual process took about 20 minutes for both eyes, though I had to wait for my eyes to dilate which took about an hour. I decided not to take the valium they offered because I wanted to be alert and to make sure that I was focused on the blinking red light; and my wife didn't take it either so I didn't want to look like a wimp next to her.
The procedure itself is a little weird. It's one eye at a time, with a patch over the eye not being treated. They put a sticky plastic over your eyelids to keep your eyelashes out of the way, then they put this Clockwork Orange kind of device in to crank open your eyelids and completely expose the eyeball. Cutting the corneal flap was a little uncomfortable when they stick that vacuum ring on your eyeball, but other than that it was pretty much pain-free. Things get kind of wierd when the doc flips the flap up, and I tensed up when they told me the laser was firing, but that only took about 45 seconds or so. The rest of the time was putting the flap back in place and putting antibiotic and steroid drops in your eye. When everything is done, you can see, but it kind of looks like you're in a really smokey room so it's hard to tell if your vision is really any better.
The procedure was finished around 4pm and the wife drove me home. I rested my eyes for a few hours and when I reopened them at 7pm my vision was absolutely perfect. I could read the LED on the stereo receiver from across the living room. TV was sharp and the colors seems brighter and beeter than I remembered when looking through glasses. The next morning I went for my post-op (drove myself in) and tested 20/20 in my right eye and 20/15 in my left.
The only real problem I noticed was my close-up vision. Initially I couldn't even read the newspaper. Since a week has passed that's no longer a problem though. It's fantastic. No more fumbling for glasses just to see the alarm clock in the morning. Off-the-shelf sunglasses are an option once again. No more sweat dripping down on my glasses when I' mowing the lawn or golfing. I can go surfing and see the sets coming in from the horizon again.
The doc told me I was lucky to heal so fast. My wife took a bit longer, supposedly because her flaps were thicker. We're both very please with the results though. Highly recommended if you've got the cash to dish out.
So much depends on how bad your eyes are. You have a good chance of coming out 20/20 and never needing glasses again if you only need slight to moderate correction. If you're like me with bad eyes and astigmatism (combined around -11 in each eye) then the cheapo places aren't even a consideration. I'm paying the extra to go to a board certified eye doctor...not a general doctor who got a few weeks training at a laser companies headquarters and then built up 20k surgeries by basically giving them away.
Quick notes: it's your eyes...don't be cheap. Go quality over quantity. Be able to accept the risk of needing to add extra eye drops daily or becoming night blind. Don't even consider a blade based surgery if you have thinner corneas or high astigmatism.
Quick notes: it's your eyes...don't be cheap. Go quality over quantity. Be able to accept the risk of needing to add extra eye drops daily or becoming night blind. Don't even consider a blade based surgery if you have thinner corneas or high astigmatism.
I always wondered what effect tears have... I mean your eyes must tear up like crazy when all that stuff is going on, does that affect the laser or anything?
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