Hello all. I will give some background on myself where I ended up here.
It's 2021, I'm 42 years old, Canadian never dived. But spent many a summer in pools/lakes..have gone 4m deep without ever equalizing and just enjoyed swimming. I am a very strong swimmer and feel very comfortable in the water. I've had a friend once say everyone swims but it's like I dance underwater.
I love water.
Lived all my life in Canada and I bought a boat in French Polynesia so I could come out here and enjoy life. With the plan of going to the atoles for months and diving enjoying the wildlife and mostly living off fishing.
I came at the end of 2020.
Now when I started spearfishing I started like anyone with smaller fish and gradually try for bigger and bigger.
I have the disadvantage of never having spearfished. I compare myself to people who have done it for years and I'm a rookie. But I get fish daily.
One problem I encountered was a few weeks go I learned about equalizing and tried to but realized my cartilage is tough. And makes equalizing quite hard. I learned of exercises you can do to give elasticity to your ear drums. I did them but not very diligently also learned of breathing exercises and also did them but not very diligently. What I did do diligently was go fishing everyday. Being in the water is what it's about.
I I've been diving and fishing and going 5-8m with very bad equalizing or none.
But I tend to stick to 5m and I used to swim in 4m in pools so cant figure that last m is that drastic.
And only.doing. 7-8m when my arrow gets stuck down there... And these are the time I focus and equalize the best I can.
At 5m I fish and relax. But deeper I diligently equalize.
Yesterday I fished a couple hours also this was my first time trying out a couple weights on a belt. Got a napoleon right as I got in water and nailed afish the size I wish I'd get. But he got away. Bah. Those scales are too tough on some fish.
I fished and never noticed a problem even when I came out of the water cause sharks were getting kills around us I still didn't notice
Our dingy is inflatable and is total.junk and deflates. I spent quite some time inflating it and noticed nothing
but then we got back to the catamaran. And.... Bam my ear is ringing maybe it was when I rinsed with cold rainwater
Or maybe not. I don't know.
Dtoday the ringing persists.
I came here because of a thread about these things and figured I would register and maybe start comenting.
And honestly ask below ith equalizing I need it. Can't let this happen again.
Thanks and hope someone here can help me learn.
-Phil-
It's 2021, I'm 42 years old, Canadian never dived. But spent many a summer in pools/lakes..have gone 4m deep without ever equalizing and just enjoyed swimming. I am a very strong swimmer and feel very comfortable in the water. I've had a friend once say everyone swims but it's like I dance underwater.
I love water.
Lived all my life in Canada and I bought a boat in French Polynesia so I could come out here and enjoy life. With the plan of going to the atoles for months and diving enjoying the wildlife and mostly living off fishing.
I came at the end of 2020.
Now when I started spearfishing I started like anyone with smaller fish and gradually try for bigger and bigger.
I have the disadvantage of never having spearfished. I compare myself to people who have done it for years and I'm a rookie. But I get fish daily.
One problem I encountered was a few weeks go I learned about equalizing and tried to but realized my cartilage is tough. And makes equalizing quite hard. I learned of exercises you can do to give elasticity to your ear drums. I did them but not very diligently also learned of breathing exercises and also did them but not very diligently. What I did do diligently was go fishing everyday. Being in the water is what it's about.
I I've been diving and fishing and going 5-8m with very bad equalizing or none.
But I tend to stick to 5m and I used to swim in 4m in pools so cant figure that last m is that drastic.
And only.doing. 7-8m when my arrow gets stuck down there... And these are the time I focus and equalize the best I can.
At 5m I fish and relax. But deeper I diligently equalize.
Yesterday I fished a couple hours also this was my first time trying out a couple weights on a belt. Got a napoleon right as I got in water and nailed afish the size I wish I'd get. But he got away. Bah. Those scales are too tough on some fish.
I fished and never noticed a problem even when I came out of the water cause sharks were getting kills around us I still didn't notice
Our dingy is inflatable and is total.junk and deflates. I spent quite some time inflating it and noticed nothing
but then we got back to the catamaran. And.... Bam my ear is ringing maybe it was when I rinsed with cold rainwater
Or maybe not. I don't know.
Dtoday the ringing persists.
I came here because of a thread about these things and figured I would register and maybe start comenting.
And honestly ask below ith equalizing I need it. Can't let this happen again.
Thanks and hope someone here can help me learn.
-Phil-