Defogging your scuba mask or swim goggles

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/17/defogging-your-scuba-mask-or-s.html
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Spit is still better & you’ll never forget to bring it with.

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This spit trick worked for me, but when I tried it with my kid recently, it didn’t work.

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Aim for the goggles, not the eyes.

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Was it your spit or your kids spit in their mask? It has to be the spit of the person who is wearing it.

Srsly tho, you need to leave a bit of spit behind. Rinse, spit, rub, quick rinse, wear. That’s how I do it anyway.

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With spit, I won’t even rinse it unless I really earned Olympic gold on the action.

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Right, leave a bit of it. I dunno, maybe my saliva is fucked from lack of flossing.

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Nope.

That said, and as an Englishman, I don’t think it helpful to tell my countrymen that less oral hygiene is a good thing.

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Yeah, that’s the joke, from the comments we had on a post about that.

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I can’t believe there are posts on the BBS I haven’t read.

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If you want to remain a regular, you better keep like 20 tabs open you check constantly.

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I’m try’n - I wish there was some sort of meter or somesuch that gave you some indication if you were doing enough to maintain - as opposed to just waking up one day with all your stuff on the lawn…

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Also cut down on the chewing tobacco.

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There is a snowball joke in here somewhere…

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Please leave it there.:stuck_out_tongue:

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I fart in my mask, mostly to prevent someone else using it.

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There are actually a lot of reasons why one might be unable to produce sputum, and the reasons not to rely on the spit of others should be obvious.

/Did you know that one potential side effect of dramamine was dry mouth? That’s nearly ironic in this circumstance.

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Maybe your kid’s mask has more aggressive film on it than your own mask had on it, so you might need to hit it with something a little abrasive before the spit trick will work?

Lesser hypothesis: kid has a higher skin temp or perspiration rate than you do. Got an IR thermometer?

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I sometimes have that problem too.

Sometimes.

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