Guillotine
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Hey,
Yesterday, I finally started to dive in the sea along with 13 divers (Group= 4 divers) in total, plus the instructor and his assistance.
I was excited, but also worried about my pressure control difficulty due to my sinus problem. At first and after I assembled my gear I walked backward from the shore because I was wearing my fins, which gave me a hard time with all that weight on. I learned that its better to hold your fins and wear it IN the water. After that we started to descend slowly and here when it started, my pressure problem, In the depth of maybe 2-2.5 meters I started to feel pain, I ascended 1 meter trying to equalize the pressure but I failed, I thought I need more time and for few second I felt like I will never make it, forget about diving.
The instructor kept trying to remind me about the ways to equalize, after 30-40secs I heard like a peep sound in my ears and managed to equalize to end up descending along with the other divers at depth of 6.3meters. There we did practice the recover-regulator (as I call it), clear the mask and buoyancy. It was dusty like hell; vision was very poor and it was itchy because of the jelly damn fish.
Ascending that depth was nothing to mention except the weird sound I kept hearing, I think its the pressure thing again but it was fine with no pain. I rushed to the instructor to be sure that if my dive was successful or not, and I knew that it was. After 2hours we started to get ready for the second dive. It was hard again but I did it, depth = 6.4meter. It took me again the same time 30-40secs to manage the pressure.
Not to make in long; is it OK for a diver to take the same time to equalize?
Please feel free to add any comment or tip. Thank you
Yesterday, I finally started to dive in the sea along with 13 divers (Group= 4 divers) in total, plus the instructor and his assistance.
I was excited, but also worried about my pressure control difficulty due to my sinus problem. At first and after I assembled my gear I walked backward from the shore because I was wearing my fins, which gave me a hard time with all that weight on. I learned that its better to hold your fins and wear it IN the water. After that we started to descend slowly and here when it started, my pressure problem, In the depth of maybe 2-2.5 meters I started to feel pain, I ascended 1 meter trying to equalize the pressure but I failed, I thought I need more time and for few second I felt like I will never make it, forget about diving.
The instructor kept trying to remind me about the ways to equalize, after 30-40secs I heard like a peep sound in my ears and managed to equalize to end up descending along with the other divers at depth of 6.3meters. There we did practice the recover-regulator (as I call it), clear the mask and buoyancy. It was dusty like hell; vision was very poor and it was itchy because of the jelly damn fish.
Ascending that depth was nothing to mention except the weird sound I kept hearing, I think its the pressure thing again but it was fine with no pain. I rushed to the instructor to be sure that if my dive was successful or not, and I knew that it was. After 2hours we started to get ready for the second dive. It was hard again but I did it, depth = 6.4meter. It took me again the same time 30-40secs to manage the pressure.
Not to make in long; is it OK for a diver to take the same time to equalize?
Please feel free to add any comment or tip. Thank you