Friend has small Eustachian tubes? Can she dive?

[Outlaw14]

Hi all.

My friend has been told by a doctor that she has small Eustachian tubes, this was in a conversation not related to wanting to dive. She also reports that she has trouble sometimes while flying. Would small Eustachian tubes be a limiting factor against being able to dive successfully? Or would it all still be just back to being able to properly equalize them regardless of their size?

Thanks for any advice I can pass on to her. She is somewhat interested in diving, but not really enough to seek out the information on her own yet.

Lauren

 

[pipedope]

As far as the ears, if she can equalize, she can dive.

A great source of information including both theory and practical application is the streaming video at;
http://faculty.washington.edu/ekay/index.html