Mares ESA Full View

Advantages: Adjustable lenses for short-sight, peripheral vision panels
Disadvantages: Overpriced, cheaper alternatives available, awkward to adjust

...a greater sense of all-round vision than do normal facemasks. The Esa has panels below each eye which allow for viewing below and the manufacturer recommends that this is useful for viewing diving gauges and weighbelts, or just seeing what is directly underneath you. There are also side panels which give peripheral vision, useful to stop you scraping against coral or banging into other divers. The mask is also recommended for divers with sight problems and both the main lenses and bottom panels can be specially adjusted for short sighted divers. ♣♣♣ My experiences ♣♣♣ I had the opportunity to try this mask out a couple of times on short dives recently instead of my usual bog-standard mask. The mask is certainly quite snug fitting and I have to say I didn't find it all that easy to adjust: the maker... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful day out.
Disadvantages: Too many people on the routes there in the Summer.

...I thought I'd write a Weston-Super-Mare review since my husband and I took our little ones there today for a spot of sandcastle building. As we only live 15 minutes away, down the M5, it's a place I have frequented throughout my life. My Grandparents live in Worle which is just off the motorway on the way in to Weston, and always took us to the seafront in the Summer, so this is the place I shall start. THE SEA FRONT Weston-Super-Mare is in North Somerset (previously Avon). Weston-sur-la-mer (on-the-sea) became Weston-Super-Mare for obvious reasons... our tangled evolution of language! I suppose it is sort of on-the-sea, but is really on the Severn Estuary. This means that there is a lot of mud washing up and down! We often, jokingly call it Weston-Super-Mud! At Weston, the beach is very very long and expansive... Read review

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Advantages: versatile indie punk rock
Disadvantages: some more difficult tracks

...released in January 2007. Its is an album full of three minute slices of sunny guitar driven indite mixed with a bit of folk and some angrier punk inspired numbers. The album bursts into life from the first squall of feedback heralding ?Coming Down?, an energetic song evoking the golden era of punk circa late 1970s. It's certainly a statesmen of intent with its semi shouted vocals, dirty guitars and a chugging bass line that give the song a real raw energy and excitement. Its the sound of a young band experimenting and having fun. The View do punk but they can also do very good catchy pop songs with sing along choruses and thought provoking lyrics. Superstar Tradesman with its chiming guitar riff is a song about doing what you want and following our dreams rather than doing what your parents want to do even if that might be more... Read review

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