Mike
Contributor
My wife has trouble with her ears, myself not so much, but over dive trips where you're diving multiple times a day every day I am very conscious of avoiding any trauma, being careful on equalizing... however, it still seems, and maybe it's as I'm getting older that my ears are bothering me more and more no matter how careful I am, and my wife had to sit out a day of diving on our last trip to Belize, on the second day she could not equalize below 34-38 feet. We brought 'ear beer' with us for the first time and used it during the trip, my wife even was using it between dives, while I was using it at the end of the day. Just seems no matter what there is always some sort of ear issue rearing it's head over trips now with us, and we are doing longer and longer trips with more and more diving, heading toward some live-a-board diving sooner or later.
I noticed my wife was holding her nose a lot to equalize, I kind of suspect in doing this all of the time she is putting more pressure on her ears then if she was just equalizing without resulting to doing it that way. Am I correct or does it not matter?
Wondering what tips, tricks or what we could be doing differently to either avoid entirely any ear issues or even change what we are doing to ensure less problems. Not spring chickens anymore and it seems like we are getting to the point that ears are now becoming a factor holding our diving back in the future.
I noticed my wife was holding her nose a lot to equalize, I kind of suspect in doing this all of the time she is putting more pressure on her ears then if she was just equalizing without resulting to doing it that way. Am I correct or does it not matter?
Wondering what tips, tricks or what we could be doing differently to either avoid entirely any ear issues or even change what we are doing to ensure less problems. Not spring chickens anymore and it seems like we are getting to the point that ears are now becoming a factor holding our diving back in the future.