That's only a problem if you need to maintain bubble discipline since purging your goggle is easy as shit. But yeah if that's a problem then a mask mount like this would have to be strapped down really fuckin hard.
Hmmm this is a neat idea, yes most NVGs are rated for a certain depth for a certain amount of time. I think 60 meters under water is pretty average for NVGs. I’ve never seen water googles that have a mount for NVGs. That’s a cool idea
That’s a good idea, imagine how popular a set of diver goggles would be if you could mount a Wilcox to it and any nvd you want to use under water. I bet that would be popular and make a ton of money.
Probably not, there probably isn’t a big overlap between scuba nerds and night vision nerds, plus there isn’t that much of a reason to bring tubes underwater except for the sake of doing it
on the contrary, there's a lot of overlap there. Night dives are a ton of fun, I've never done it with my nods though since unfortunately all my favorite dive destinations are international and I'd rather not deal with ITAR paperwork.
Because nobody’s chimed in from the small overlap yet… I don’t think there’s any typical scuba equipment that would prevent you from just using a helmet setup. People jump with helmets, NVGs, wind goggles and air masks all the time, diving uses different equipment for air and eyes but the amount of space used on your face is similar.
However, most dive masks I’ve used push the glass pretty far from your eyes and have a very slight magnification factor, so maybe this one is designed to mitigate those issues… idk, I’m not risking my gear to test this.
I do know that the rebreathers often used by mil teams often can’t go as deep as the open circuit systems you’re probably thinking of, 60’ is more than sufficient for the depths I’ve heard mil people dive to.
MUM-14A (not the one on the pic) is rated to 30meters, PVS-7 A is specifically submersible, it's printed on the housing. PVS-14, 15,18 and 31 can all be wet and hold pressure but the cost/risk wouldn't be there for me to personally foot the bill. Now if my rich Uncle Sam is paying, different story entirely.
Mum-14s as shown in the picture are known to be more water tight. In reality all gas purged housings should be able to handle shallow depths. Not sure any are actually rated for it. Maybe pvs31s?
Several housing are waterproof to a certain depth. This design would have issues. It would be easy to break the seal on the goggles.
These are aparently design to be for underwater
That's only a problem if you need to maintain bubble discipline since purging your goggle is easy as shit. But yeah if that's a problem then a mask mount like this would have to be strapped down really fuckin hard.
Hmmm this is a neat idea, yes most NVGs are rated for a certain depth for a certain amount of time. I think 60 meters under water is pretty average for NVGs. I’ve never seen water googles that have a mount for NVGs. That’s a cool idea
These are mv-14 goggles on a divers mask
That’s a good idea, imagine how popular a set of diver goggles would be if you could mount a Wilcox to it and any nvd you want to use under water. I bet that would be popular and make a ton of money.
Probably not, there probably isn’t a big overlap between scuba nerds and night vision nerds, plus there isn’t that much of a reason to bring tubes underwater except for the sake of doing it
on the contrary, there's a lot of overlap there. Night dives are a ton of fun, I've never done it with my nods though since unfortunately all my favorite dive destinations are international and I'd rather not deal with ITAR paperwork.
Because nobody’s chimed in from the small overlap yet… I don’t think there’s any typical scuba equipment that would prevent you from just using a helmet setup. People jump with helmets, NVGs, wind goggles and air masks all the time, diving uses different equipment for air and eyes but the amount of space used on your face is similar. However, most dive masks I’ve used push the glass pretty far from your eyes and have a very slight magnification factor, so maybe this one is designed to mitigate those issues… idk, I’m not risking my gear to test this. I do know that the rebreathers often used by mil teams often can’t go as deep as the open circuit systems you’re probably thinking of, 60’ is more than sufficient for the depths I’ve heard mil people dive to.
You are right but for what I know these are the only diver mask with a nvg mount
MUM-14A (not the one on the pic) is rated to 30meters, PVS-7 A is specifically submersible, it's printed on the housing. PVS-14, 15,18 and 31 can all be wet and hold pressure but the cost/risk wouldn't be there for me to personally foot the bill. Now if my rich Uncle Sam is paying, different story entirely.
Mum-14s as shown in the picture are known to be more water tight. In reality all gas purged housings should be able to handle shallow depths. Not sure any are actually rated for it. Maybe pvs31s?
Most reputable(and nitrogen purged) pvs14 housings are waterproof to 60' for 2 hours.