Hey that is great news that you’ve put your Lumity Life aids to the water/dive test! I also wonder if having a CUSTOM mold over the speaker is the key? Initially, I had my Lumity Life aids fit with custom silicone tips over the speakers. Unfortunately, I am allergic to that material, so I had to swap those with the smoke-colored double dome molds. Can you show us a picture of the molds on your speakers?
Yeah. I’d also say you’ve been SUPER lucky so far. Even unvented, custom molds will work their way out of one’s ear canal during normal wear (eating, yawning, speaking, laughing, etc., will shift the molds backwards out of the ear canal). I used a pair of these lanyards to hold the aids behind my ear and never worry about losing them.
With just the double silicone molds on my speakers, I managed to KILL the first pair I had after 2 short swims in the pool. During the first swim, the aids repeatedly “lost contact” with each other non-stop. That produced a non-stop musical tone of 5 notes the entire time I swam.
Second time I swam with them on, the right aid was permanently fritzed. Each time, I’d put my aids in a very high end ReDux dryer. But after that second short swim of just 20 min, the right aid never recovered. It just hummed and buzzed. That’s when I took them back for the replacement.
I never dove, just had the aids in and a snorkel mask on, so I know I didn’t go below maybe 6" in the water.
I would not want completely unvented molds (even tho they may help me hear better and keep water out). I agree that the sound quality would be annoyingly occluded.
I had dreams of wearing these Lumity Life aids for water sports, having seen Dr Cliff’s rosey result trying to kill them with moisture after 100 hours. It only took me 2 swims of 20 min each to kill my pair. After I got the replacement, I’ve never ever EVER wore them in any kind of water sport activity again.
I’m still very happy with these Lumity Life aids for their improved speech comprehension, but as for their being waterproof? I am living proof that marketing line was a lie for me and how I used them. Just sayin’. Please show my post to your audiologist. I shared these observations with my 2 audiologists (present and past)