RonMicjan

Have been diving the draeger panarama for a couple years now and its extremely comfortable, way more so that a standard mask for me, no jaw fatigue on long dives, I have a lower half beard and moustache and no longer have to shave the strip under my nose to seal properly. the draeger also doesnt leak like a normal mask does for me. Mask is quite warm also, I use in in warm water w/o a hood and in cold water with a latex dry hood and beanie cap under the hood. I actually come out of the water with the beanie and what little hair I have still dry. I like the latex hood better than neoprene with the FFM.

there are some retraining issues with the mask, make sure you do some bailout drills and think everything through before you do any serious diving with the FFM. Its a trick to R and R the mask during balout drills. Leon beat the crap out of me on a cold water dive and drilled me on mask failure and swapping OC gasses. matt in mexico put me through the gauntlet during a cave course also when I insisted on doing the whole cave course on the FFM.

dont take this as a minor gear change, its a major reconfiguration and training is a requirement.

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