Cressi Penta+ Adult Scuba Diving Mask

The Cressi Penta+ is a four-lens adult scuba mask made in Italy. The raked main lenses sit at an angle rather than flat against your face, and scratch-resistant side windows open up the sides. The skirt and strap are hypoallergenic silicone, the internal volume is listed as low, and the whole mask weighs 175 g (6.2 oz).

Who this suits

Divers who spend a lot of the dive looking down at kit. The raked lens angle is built for downward visibility, which means your computer, your pressure gauge and your inflator come into view with less of a chin drop.

It also suits anyone who has felt boxed in by a standard two-lens mask. The side windows are listed for lateral and peripheral vision, so more of what is beside you registers without a full head turn. On a busy reef or in a group, that is situational awareness rather than scenery.

Skip it if you want the lowest possible internal volume for repeated breath-hold descents. A dedicated freediving mask goes further in that direction. Skip it too if you need prescription optical inserts, because the listing says nothing about corrective lens options for this frame, and a four-lens design is not a safe assumption for standard inserts.

Four lenses, and what the rake angle buys you

The main lenses use what Cressi calls an inverted drop shape on a raked, inclined axis. In plain terms, the glass tilts down and away instead of sitting parallel to your face. Cressi lists this as a patented raked lens system.

The practical effect is where your gauges land in your field of view. On a flat two-lens mask, reading a wrist computer while staying horizontal usually means tucking your chin, which pitches your whole body and costs you trim. The rake pulls that sightline up into the mask, so a glance does what a neck movement used to.

The side windows are made from a material Cressi rates as stronger than glass or polycarbonate and describes as scratch-resistant. Take that as the manufacturer's own wording. What is checkable is the effect: more panel area means more ambient light in the mask, which the listing records as high luminosity, and a wider view at the edges.

175 g and a low internal volume

At 175 g this is light for a mask carrying four lenses. Weight on a mask matters less for the neck than for the seal: a heavy frame drags on the skirt and needs more strap tension to stay put, and strap tension is what causes leaks and headaches on long dives.

Internal volume is listed as low, and that figure decides two everyday jobs. Clearing a flooded mask takes one breath instead of two or three, because there is less air space to displace. Equalizing the mask on descent takes less exhaled air through the nose, which on a deep dive is gas you keep in the cylinder.

Skirt, strap and the buckles

Both skirt and strap are hypoallergenic silicone, with no PVC in the build. Silicone stays soft across a wider temperature range and holds its shape over years of sun and salt, where cheaper compounds go stiff and stop sealing.

The buckles are embedded in the frame rather than sticking out on arms, and the strap is listed for one-hand adjustment. Flush buckles snag less on a hood, and one-hand adjustment is the detail you appreciate on a rolling boat with a glove on.

Which version this page covers

The data behind this page describes the adult Penta+, the restyled version of Cressi's Penta, and nothing narrower than that. No color, no size and no lens option is listed against it, and there is no barcode on record for this page.

That means the specifications above apply to the frame, not to one specific colorway. Whichever finish the retailer row you pick is selling is what will arrive, so read the color on that retailer's own page before you order.

The bottom line

The Penta+ earns its place on visibility. The raked lenses and the side windows solve two real annoyances, reading gauges without breaking trim and seeing what is beside you, and the light frame with a silicone skirt and low volume keeps the basics right.

Where the listing runs thin is optics for anyone who needs correction, and any statement of which colorway this page is selling. Both are worth a question to the retailer before you commit.

Think of it as a wide-view recreational scuba mask, not a low-volume freediving frame that happens to be comfortable.

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