Mask
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Category: Diving
Forum Name: Spearo's Corner
Forum Description: Free-divers & spearos chat about their sport
URL: https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33063
Printed Date: 02 Aug 2026 at 5:08pm
Topic: Mask
Posted By: vP
Subject: Mask
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 2:42pm
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Hey Guys, I was just wondering if any of you get tiny bubbles streaming from the side of your mask sometimes?.....which in turn creates a high pitch squeaking kind sound. My mask fits well however this happens to me quite a bit when I’m out diving. |
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Posted By: David C
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 3:59pm
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hmm that sounds odd. If I'm diving with a cold I sometimes get a high pitch squeaking sound coming from inside my ear. Mite be this? Does it only happen on ascent? You could try putting Vaseline on the edges of your mask to try and make a better seal. |
Posted By: kolt45
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 4:30pm
| It could be you breathing very slightly out of your nose. I sometimes catch myself doing this if I'm snotty or my nose is irritated. |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 5:27pm
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Try heaps of different things like relaxing your face, or not biting your mouth piece too hard etc...
Could be anything, but bubbles mainly point to it not fitting properly.
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Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 5:37pm
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I followed around one of the members of this forum on a snoop a while back, filming him. After watching himself on tape, he was most put out to see the constant trail of bubbles from his mask when he thought he was being super stealthy. Maybe some people just slowly exhale out their noses?
------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: duckweed
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 6:49pm
Had a similar problem but mine was caused by a huge fart,it made shoot to the surface like a lift bag and when i took my next breath,i nearly got nitrogen narcosis,so no more bake beans the night before a dive.
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Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 7:15pm
| hahaha duckweed great yarn. have done that before. whats everyone thoughts on pissing in your wetsuit? feels good, keeps you warm, and its pretty much sterile.. sounds good.??? |
Posted By: Richard M
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 7:28pm
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Pissing in your suit? yeah not much choice when you are in water diving for long time. I reakon the guy that invents a small "Fly" or hole in the crotch with a velcro cover or something so it is easy to flop oit out will make a pile of money, could even patent the idea and live off the royalty of money pouring in.
But until that day comes we'll all have to keep warming up our suits! |
Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 7:51pm
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Um, sorry but it's been done already - I thought all decent suits these days came with a scupper as standard? Mine certainly do. Pay a vist to Seaquel (or send your suit to them to get oone put in) or go look at Wild Blue's suits. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 8:06pm
| yer but pee is warm... and it feels nice. lol . why wouyld you get ur winky dink cold if you could just pee inside and stay nice and warm :).. plus if you wash everything out properly there shouldnt be a problem.... or does it cause problems? |
Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 8:11pm
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piss cools you down; your body feels the heat and sends blood back to your skin and that will chill you over time. ------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 8:15pm
| You smell bad after your dive, in the car on the way home. You still smell bad as you dig out the car of some muppet who has got stuck in the soft sand in the dark. More smelling like wee for a bit and then you get a shower. |
Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 8:29pm
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Can't be good for ya (health wise) pissing in the wetsuit
My next suit I will invest in a scupper no doubt.
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Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 8:43pm
| haha i guess lol. all very valid points |
Posted By: cartoonz
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2008 at 9:25pm
Yea, I remember that day and it was quite a shock. I am constantly aware of bubbles since watching it on film. Very helpful. It could be any of the above mentioned theories and it will hopefully be the mask as I am getting a new one. Still, cannot have been that bad as we got a couple of good fish. Probably more, if the idiot with the camera did not keep bumping me just as I was taking the money shot!
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long john wrote:Posted By: mjl
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 9:44am
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The air has to be coming from your nose if it's happening on the bottom or on descent. For air to be escaping you must be over pressurizing your mask. What happens if you don't equalize your mask? [your eyes pop out of your head and your brain gets sucked into your mask] It maybe that you're unconsciously over-pressuring your mask a bit to keep water out? Try tightening your strap maybe or try allowing your mask to suck on a bit more? Pomblasta, a scupper isn't like a fly where you have to whip your old fella out to pee. It's a neoprene one-way valve like those sometimes found in the transom of boats. Your phallus remains happily nestled in rubber but the urine is evacuated from the suit. There's a fine scupper pic in TSW's most recent dive report if you look carefully.
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Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 11:27am
hahaha great way to put it mjl.. i enjoyed your use of words there.. will have a gander at tsw s report, lol i didnt notice before when i read it,. i dnt nrmally look down that neck of the woods hahaha... sounds good though, if your tockley is kept nice and snug and warm.. might have to see about getting one in the next suit i buy :) 
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Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 11:29am
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I remember YEARS ago I borrowed my brothers wetsuit (with a fly - not a scupper) and went to Goat Island to take some visitors for a SCUBA dive (shock, horror).
It was shallow, we were in the water for a looonnnggg time and I got the urge, swam behind a rock and unzipped the fly - only to lose any urge to pee that I had as the COLD water rushed in!
(And, being cold, you wouldn't want to feature in a tourists photo - wouldn't do the ego any good).
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Posted By: TheSnapperWhisperer
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 12:46pm
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You think that's bad - I used to have a fly zipper in a suit. One day I sat on the side of teh boat and unzipped for the obvious reason - all good, then when zipping back up caught the end in the zipper - you know how big and chunky those setsuit zips are. Ouch. It drew blood and I had to reverse back out of the situation. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/TheSnapperWhisperer |
Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 12:54pm
| OUCH !!! woulda been funny for everyone else though.once i got busted peeing off our boat by the water police... they gave me a good stern talking to... now i just pee in the water.. haha |
Posted By: vP
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 12:57pm
| Is it illegal to pee off a boat?? or was their case indecent exposure?? |
Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 1:01pm
apparently it is in the whitsundays australia, but i didnt know until they told me. probably had a bit to do with both really.. i still dnt know how they saw me doin it they were like 700 metres away. musta been checkin me out with binoculars  haha.. cops = naughty naughty
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Posted By: Richard M
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 1:46pm
You should have told the water police that they needed to send a nice looking female officer to discpline you, and besides it probably was not an offence provided you did'nt shake it more than x3 times! 
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Posted By: long john
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 2:36pm
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Did the big haul out to aldies from Whitianga one nationals, Pete the Pom driving, me standing behind. Pete's squirming away for most of the trip, then starts to giggle to himself while chucking the occassional glance over his shoulder at me. I just started to wonder why when I noticed my feet getting rather warm. Too warm, in fact.
I didn't find it half as funny as he did  ------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 3:30pm
| hahaha ewww gross. buts still weirdly funny. just hope his bilge pump was goin well |
Posted By: Fizzlesticks
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 4:14pm
| Was that the day a small hole corroded through the hull and they boat nearly sunk halfway into the comp? |
Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 4:19pm
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Pete the Pom - dogey man! I will have to give him a wind-up next time he comes to under water rugby!
I will ask him how many guys he has warmed the feet of! (hope the boat had a scupper ...)
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Posted By: DUTCHIE
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 6:13pm
ROFL you should start a sticky with funny anecdotes, this is certainly worth it.
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Posted By: Rusky
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 6:28pm
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One day we were heading out over the bar at Tairua with Tintanic at the wheel and me and herby hanging on for dear life with 3m swells coming in. One set seemed to be bigger then the rest and we were basically planing it on a few waves not being able to see infront of us. After we had crossed that bar and a sigh of relief the worse was over, Tintanic yells out "I pissed myself" and me being the lightest bugger at the back had the honour of stepping in his mellow yellow fluid over to the aldies.
You little sissy Tintanic.
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Posted By: pomblasta
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 7:03pm
| hahaha thats gold. "ARRRGHHH I PISSED MYSELF" hahaha |
Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2008 at 7:19pm
| Peeing in your suit gives you spearo kudos, number twos are a no-go though. As for masks, definitely a nose leakage thing. |