how do you stop your ears from popping when going scuba diving?
My ears feel like they’re gonna pop when i get to about 2 and a half metre’s and i’;m going to sharm el sheikh in a month, any tips?
I can’t really aford to have diving lessons before i go.
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When you dive for every 10 meters or before you will feel an uncomfortable pressure in your head causing serious pain. You need to either pop your jaw or hold your nose and get your ears to pop by holding your breathe for a few seconds. You continue to do this until all the pressure in head or the feeling of pain has past. You might have to do it the whole way down or every few feet, that depends on the person. So if you keep equalizing the pressure your ears will not build up and will not feel that need to keep popping them.
Hold your nose and blow
If you can’t afford those lessons now, I hope you’re planning on getting them in Egypt. You won’t be doing any diving until you show your cert card. Air space equalization is taught in your open water class. There are three methods and the trick to to start your equalizing BEFORE you notice any discomfort. Do it early and often. With any of equalizing technique, if you fail to equalize those spaces, STOP and go back up 5 -10 feet and try again. If you still can’t equalize, abort the dive. There’s no point in continuing, you’ll just suffer a barotrauma that can cause serious, permanent damage, a good bit of pain and possibly a lot of blood from a ruptured sinus.
1/ The valsalva is most popular because it works for anyone not suffering a head cold. Plug your nose with a free hand and with your mouth shut, blow gently every few feet on the descent.
2/ The Frenzel is tricky and takes practice. It also doesn’t work on everyone but does have it’s advantages in that it doesn’t require a free hand nor does it use much air. You close the epiglottis and this opens the soft palate, air can be forced into the Eustachian tube by a rolling of the tongue or inward pressure of the cheeks. Again, if you’ve got a stuffy head, forget it. You shouldn’t be diving that day anyway.
3/ The good old modified yawn. Moving your jaw from side to side or forwards and backwards. Hard to do with a reg in your face, but it works for some people.
I see someone here tried to explain the valsalva method, but they’re not quite right. You don’t hold your breath to do it. You exhale against a pinched nose and closed mouth.
You want your ears to pop!!! If you SCUBA dive and your ears don’t pop you are in big trouble. Ideally you purpously pop your ears before you feel any discomfort to equalize the pressure insude your ears to the surrounding water pressure.If you don’t pop your ears you can do serious damage to your inner ear and sinus’s.Not to be rude but I dont think you have ever took a diving course,I strongly recommend that you do before trying to scuba dive.
You need to equalize the pressure in your eal canal. there are several techniques. One is holding your nose and blowing gently. Some swallow water, some wiggle their jaw, It also helps to not be stuffed up. So take some medication that clears your sinuses.
Firstly, it’s not wise to get in the water before you have some kind of former lessons or training.
When you feel pressure building in your ears, and even before you do, you must equalize them. The most common method involved clamping the nose shut with two fingers, closing the mouth, and blowing air against your closed nose. Don’t force it, and if you have trouble, angle the problem ear towards the surface.
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