I very rarely have problems clearing my ears, but I always have to
actively clear them and relatively often (every 3-5m aka 10-15f)
I was taking some underwater videos this summer and realized that my ears really do make a bit of noise!
Also people in my training group can hear the noises quite clearly as well.
The noise "feels like" it is coming from the soft palate or the Eustachian tube. Somewhere up in the nasal cavity.
I can clear without producing any noise, but not with very much power (I believe that I am doing Valsalva only when I don't produce any noise)
I have a video with the sound from Croatia. The other funny thing is that the fish move before you can here the sound, I think the delay is a little bit greater with the online video, but it was the same way in real-life, the fish "jump" then I heard the noise. Most fish don't respond this way, but these at this dive location did. Fish that looked the same two days later different location did not behave the same.
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What is going on? Is there anyway I can be a nice quiet diver and still get power to clear my ears? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
ps. I don't know how to embed video in my posts...
