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The ABC equipment includes diving mask, snorkel and fins. There are different kinds of diving masks available. All popular diving masks for sport divers cover the eyes and nose. The lip is nowadays commonly made out of silicone. Usually masks have one glass for each eye. The glass should have the description “Tempered Glass” or “Safety Glass”. These glasses can be exchanged with prescription glasses, if needed. The visual acuity thus can be corrected. But this can be also achieved with wearing contact lenses. However, only soft contact lenses should be used as nitrogen bubbles might form under hard contact lenses on decompression (◘ Figs. 2.1 and 2.2).
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Rusoke-Dierich, O. (2018). Basic Diving Equipment. In: Diving Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73836-9_2
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