Do your ears tell you you're ascending?

[TSandM]

Mine don't. Descending, yes, but going up, my ears have never done anything at all. My regular dive buddy tells me his crackle and pop all the way up, and I'm wondering which is more common.

 

[Firefyter]

My ears definitely tick. I can tell how fast I'm ascending by how fast my ears are ticking. It's nothing really loud, but it's there.

 

[Lightning Fish]

Yep, my ears pop when I ascend. I find it to be a good feedback signal that I am getting shallower. If expected then good, if not expected then I can look at why it is happening.

Bill.

 

[gcbryan]

I can tell the difference yes but it's noticeable only with a direct ascent not when I'm slowly following the contour of the bottom back in as in a shore dive.

My first indication of ascent is when I feel the fabric on the back of my drysuit pulling away slightly.

 

[jeckyll]

I'm not sure if I'm just not paying as much attention to it as I used to, but my ears don't "warn" me as much as they used to. Perhaps my ascents are much slower these days

 

[diversteve]

Mine do too - should have seen the looks I got last time I mentioned it on a diveboat. I can also tell when I'm going too fast by the sounds, it's a warning to look at my computer and slowww down. Otoh, I can drop like a stone with no need to clear till about 40' - and I only do it then since I feel a slight pressure in my ears and have reduced outside noise levels if I don't.

 

[redrover]

Mine do but not as noticeably as descending. Any thoughts about why this may be physically explained? Along the lines of warming up muscles prior to activity? Like maybe as ‘exercising’ my ears prior to diving I equalize easier and with less conscious action descending so when ascending the exercising benefit is continued from the descending exercising? And you warm up your ears faster than I?

 

[RonFrank]

Mine don't. Descending, yes, but going up, my ears have never done anything at all. My regular dive buddy tells me his crackle and pop all the way up, and I'm wondering which is more common.

I can tell either direction. Pressure if I start to decend lettimg me know to clear. Not sure how do describe the ascent, but I can feel the air leaving, and sometimes I hear a crackle or pop, nothing that hurts.

 

[DiveMaven]

Mine don't do anything on ascent....but next time I'm going to have to pay better attention just to be sure I'm not missing anything.

 

[fairybasslet]

Sometimes I feel bubbles coming out of my left ear.