GASP!!Originally Posted by AptaMer
GASP!!
Her monofin is amazing! Its so soft and flowy!
Formerly known as ireneho
That video is amazing (there was a thread about it somewhere).
As I said there, I'd prefer an underwater home that looks more natural, reef- or underwater cave-like than so techie and humanish, but one cannot have it all I guess.
I WANT TO LIVE THERE! Seriously, why haven't they opened a resort like this? If I had a billion dollars I would buy the place and create the worlds first mermaid colony! I can't be the only one that thought this during the video.
So has anyone actually bought and tested the contact lens thing? How can I (a person with normal vision) get my fins on some of these lenses? Will this work for freshwater Mers? I would like to stop bumping my head every time I want to swim without goggles. I got a mouth full of sand the other day after I face planted into the sand while swimming to shore without goggles. The lake here is a barf green and I can only see about two feet in front of my face with goggles. Without goggles I can see my hands but they are blurry, glowing, and ghost-like. Creepy! Everything else looks like pea soup. Is there any hope that I will be able to see anything underwater?
You are never alone.
There are about 7,266,786,800 people in the world.
So mathematically speaking,
Even if your are one in a million there are still about 72,667 people who are just like you.
Wearing contact lenses in lakes or the ocean has led to some serious eye problems, Mermaid Joie. Especially swimming in some lakes, people have gotten a nasty amoebic parasite between their eye and the lens and have developed infections, that even led to one person going blind in one eye. More info is in this thread
http://mernetwork.com/index/showthre...th-contacts-on
This thread is about how children have learned to see clearly underwater without lenses ot goggles. It seems it might be possible for older people to learn how too. Some equipment would be required, and people would have to debug the procedure developed by Swedish researchers. Maybe a Kickstarter/Indigogo is called for?
Right but couldn't you encounter the same problem just swimming with your eyes open? Are there antibacterial drops that Mers can use before swimming?
You are never alone.
There are about 7,266,786,800 people in the world.
So mathematically speaking,
Even if your are one in a million there are still about 72,667 people who are just like you.
You can always contract a waterborne parasite when swimming.
Lenses heighten the risk. Have you read the article? It's explained there.
It can happen even in correctly chlorinated pools.
Personally, I've gotten over my intense dislike of goggles and wouldn't swim without anymore.
Especially since I know what's going on in pools.
My health > looks.
You could try to wear corrective lenses beneath goggles, provided those are 100% watertight and you don't take them off.
I wouldn't risk it though.
I think that would sting the eye really badly, Joie.
But the issue with contact lenses is that the water gets stuck between the eye and the lens, so no bueno. I've never gotten any eye infections as a result of swimming in Lake Michigan, personally, and I never use goggles.
Agreed. The issue is that water can be sucked in between the lens and the eye along with pathogens like amoebae or bacteria, and it layer of water acts like an incubator for them, holding them in a warm layer of nutrients where the eye can't get rid of them.
When the eye is open underwater and is continuously flushed out, especially by your blinking, these pathogens can't get a foothold.
Sounds about right.
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