the water pocket will be slightly convex when filled the number of water pockets 25 can be arbitrarily chosen form 1 to many and the shape of the pockets 25 may also be any appropriate shape e g similar to ice cube bags fig1 and 16 show an embodiment of a face mask 8 according to the present invention provided with a gutter system 31 the face mask 8 has a gutter 31 placed at the convex concave convex wave shaped bottom edge 6 of the second surface facing away from the user 39 s face direct water away from the nose and mouth region and towards the convex points 2 on the face mask 8 essentially preventing dripping of water in front of the mouth children like to talk hence it is important to avoid getting a lot of water in the mouth the gutter 31 does preferable stretch from the convex point 2 at the left side of the face mask 8 over the concave point 5 to the convex point 2 at the right side of the face mask 8 but a shorter gutter 31 e g from a point 32 on the left side of the face mask 8 to a corresponding point 32 on the right side of the face mask 8 will give a similar effect the height of the gutter 31 may be the same over the full length or vary and be lower at the end points the bending of the gutter may vary from nearly a full sized circle 33 to a 90 degrees open circle 34 preferable the bending of the gutter is app 45 degrees for obtaining optimal diversion of the water flow fig1 shows a.