I took my PADI Advanced Open Water qualification twenty odd years ago. Long since lost all the notes and manuals but still use my licence on holiday sometimes for a recreational dive.
Anyway, I swim a lot most of the time, most nights in fact. Thing is, I've been getting persistant ear infections recently which I can link to the swimming. If I stop for a week it clears up but as soon as I go back to my training routine it flares up again. Doc says it happens. Apparently you can just fairly suddenly develop a reaction to things and it won't go away.
However, the good news is that I've discovered that by wearing swimmer's earplugs I can avoid the recurrence of the infection so I can train as normal again, but my question to any experienced divers is...can I safely wear the earplugs when diving or is that going to give me pressure equalisation problems?
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Shame you didn't ask this a few weeks back. An ex-navy diver was contracting for us and I overheard some of his tales.... e.g. taking I think a month to decompress (or was it two!) because of the depth etc. And he was involved in such things as the Herald of Free Enterprise salvage. The dive was oil rig related that I refer to. Or he could have been talking rubbish.
So.... could have asked him. He'd have known.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Sat 16 Apr 11 at 23:53
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I had a little plastic diver on the end of a thin tube which you either blew or sucked to make him rise or fall.
Don't think he used earplugs.
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>>>I had a little plastic diver
Clockwork submarine too??
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There's no doubt about it, this forum is the place to obtain quality technical information. :-)
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Tracey (from Fulham) reckons I'm the best diver she's ever met.
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>> Tracey (from Fulham) reckons I'm the best diver she's ever met.
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I take it that she is Australian? www.slang-dictionary.org/diver
purely technical information....
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...Tracey (from Fulham) reckons I'm the best diver she's ever met...
Careful, that smutty Dog had a post zapped earlier.
My little diver had what I think was a capilliary tube.
If you held your finger over the end, he stayed down (ooo er, missus).
Had I paid attention at school, I could have explained the physics of it.
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>> Tracey (from Fulham) reckons I'm the best diver she's ever met.
No Dave, she said you were the biggest Div she ever met.
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>> No Dave, she said you were the biggest Div she ever met.
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Conversation went
"ooooh, er Dave - you are the bigest div - er - I've had"
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Any divers here? - rtj70
