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Picking the Right Goggles for You

Picking the right goggles is essential be it is for skiing, diving, or plain swimming. They assist us to see clearly even in the incidence of snow or water. It guards our eyes from the water and the snow that is annoying and can harm the eyes during the said activities. What are the things we should consider when choosing the correct goggles? 1. Use Initially, establish the use of buying a goggle. Is it meant for skiing, swimming, or diving? If it is for swimming and diving – the objective is to see visibly when under water without permitting excessive water to seep into the eyes. If the goggles are intended for skiing, you must consider the quantity of protection you can get against the branches and the ruthless breeze while doing the activity. Goggles can protect us from the wind while skiing since most of the time it is too irritating for the eyes and can cause eye dryness. 2. Size The size of the goggles must perfectly fit your face. It should be just above the end of the upper nose bridge and well fit around the eyes. It shouldn’t be too tight or too wobbly. If you get irritated too much because of using goggles and choose to buy something that is slackly fitted, then you are only throwing your money – the objective of wearing goggles is for safety and for clearer vision. If foreign objects will be blocking the goggles from the within, then you will lose the point of wearing goggles. 3. The durability Buy goggles that will not be worn out with repeated water immersion and will not break easily when powerful winds and snows strike during skiing. Buy something that is tough and you can use for a long time. Although, many people will absolutely buy cheaper ones, they are not sure how durable and sturdy the goggles is. This will end to frequent replacement of the device. 4. Special features Some ski goggles have specialized features. These contain colored lenses. Each color is polarized to a different degree and adapts to a different sunlight setting. Golden hue can be used for moderate light, dark or green colors for brighter time and blue for high strength sunlight. Be very practical in choosing your goggles so you can enjoy your skiing, diving, and swimming activity.

4 or 5 day Learn to Dive Course?

I get asked this regularly here at my tour desk and the answer is pretty simple. We specialise in orgainising all tours, reef cruises and accommodation in Cairns, however as a bubble blower myself, I always look after Scuba Diving in Cairns and Cairns Learn to Dive patrons. I nearly always leave the annoying motel accommodation and rainforest bookings to the girls.

If you have spare time I advise you to do the 5 day course. You are only going to do a dive course once in your life, so why worry about a few extra dollars.

It’s almost like doing a dive course and dive trip united.

With a 4 day course you’ll do 4 dives, which is the very minimum required to fulfill your dive certificate. They will all be “learning dives”.

A 5 day course will mostly give you nine dives. Now the first 4 are training dives but for the next 5 dives you are a certified scuba diver. One of these usually is also a night dive. Another advantage is that the dives will be with the other students from your course who have comparable skill levels as you.

So the first dive trip you do after finishing your course you will have already done five solo scubadives and be that little bit more skilled and confident.

Also the cost per dive is much better.

You may even choose to extend your dive course into a 6 day learn to dive course and get an advanced scuba divers qualification, but thats another post.

So I trust I’ve assisted all you prospective Scuba Divers out there.