I have had a constant problem with leaking goggles for years. The problem had been mostly solved by using Nest Pro goggles. But it seems like the goggles loose their sealing ability after about a month or two of use. The goggles look fine but they start leaking.
Curious if anyone else has run into this?
It almost seems that they are like running shoes that loose their bounce after a few months but look fine in appearance.
I get about 4-6 months out of mine in the pool. I find that Aquasphere Kaiman fit me equally as great as the Nest Pros, and last a bit longer.
I think I might have–they seemed to work and then didn’t, but I just moved on to a different style. But I’m suspicious that it might have had more to do with not keeping the goggles in a case (the seals could get banged up some in a bag), or having the silicone not clean.
I get about 6-12 months out of a pair of nest pros but I store them in a case. They’ve worked well for me but have friends that swear by the aquaspheres. Might be worth trying to see if they last a bit longer.
I love the Nest Pros and have had the same pair for about 8 months, no leaking issues. That’s with swimming about 3-4x/week.
Also, you mess with the straps before you give up, right? Tighter and looser? Sometimes that can be the problem.
Yea I mess with them a lot. I actually have a couple pairs of goggles in my bag and end up just switching from one pair to another.
Time to buy a bunch of goggles and try to find something new.
I’ve gotten a full year out of my current pair. Baby shampoo for anti-fog before every swim and they’re golden.
Bob
I have treated my Nest Pros pretty hard and I am at around 14 months on my current set of googles (one tinted and one clear) and figure they are do for replacing now.
It sounds to me that your goggles are not a good fit – to the point where a little deterioration leads to leakage. I would recommend going to a swimming store and trying on goggles - by not putting the straps on. Just stick them on your eyes and see if the seal holds them on for at least a little bit. Find the pair that stays on and feels comfortable and you should be good to go. BTW, I just throw my nest pros in my swim bag and they last over a year.
I als had them not last worth a damn and took good care of them. I have moved to a great fitting, and inexpensive google in the BlueSeventy element. Very nice google!
My Nest pro nanos are lasting about 8 months. Around that point the chlorine has degraded the silicon enough that it turns yellow, hardens and starts leaking. For me the Aquasphere Kaiman’s wouldn’t work at all.
Best of luck with the BlueSeventys. My experience has been the opposite. I also used to get moisture/leaking BETWEEN the lenses (i.e. you would have a bubble of blurry moisture you could not dry/push away.
Thanks. I’ll look for that, but for a few months they’ve been great and inexpensive.
Yeah. I really loved mine… For a while… Until I did Timberman and had the leaking in between my left lense…Still better than water leaking inside, but was extremely annoying to have one blurry eye and one clear eye.
These were the Hydra-Visions. Overall I find the fit of them pretty much the same as the Nest Pro… Before I found the Nest Pro I loved the fit of the Hydra-Visions and they were my fav. Maybe mine was just a bad pair, but I was frustrated, found the Nest Pro, and thought they were a little better constructed.
Best of luck
These were the ones I liked better than many more expensive ones…
Not crazy about those, but you definitely should not have the problem I had with the HydraVisons. The Elements look like a single molded piece for the full eye cup that then sits in a silicon body. The HydraVision was more of a silicon body that the lenses sat in, and because of their construction, the lenses can separate in the eye cup and moisture get between the lenses.
I’ve had my nest pros for about 9 months and they are still working great. Had used kamans and kayennes before that both started to leak after about 3 months. But I put it down to washing the goggles after ever swim. Think both my aqua spheres started leaking due to the chlorine eating away at the seals. So like the poster above they have started turning yellow from the chlorine so I’m sure washing them has saved the sealing properties. So might try kayennes again sometime and wash them this time as I really liked their fit and shape.