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Used to dive regularly, dad was PADI instructor for a time. My mom tells everyone I was diving at 2 years old. Lol My dad had my daughter on the 3rd lung at 4 and she is still a fish. I leave a shot of water in my mask at all times and even take it off and on at anytime at any depth if need be as should be easy for anyone who dives. When we spot lobster on the move we dive in with mask in hand and put on half way down and grab lobsters. The 3rd lung changed a lot and stopped using tanks as much eventually. With the 3rd lung with 150 ft lines we never come up all day. My dad also had the air compressor hooked up on the boat at all times as a kid especially to retrieve anchor or bottom cleaning. We have a Honda unit now.
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I haven’t been on a dive in about 15yrs, but I use to dive a fair amount when I was younger. Speaking of currents, I went off the beach in Cozumel with some friends for a night dive. We got caught in a current and realized we couldn’t get back to our original spot. We ended up swimming to the shore and climbing over some rocks to get to the road and walking back with our gear. Lesson learned.
My last dive was about 9 months ago in Bora Bora, Tahiti. Previous before that was almost two years. Bora Bora was my first real dive after finishing up my cancer treatments. Took a refresher course before heading to Tahiti. Beautiful diving, but my first tank went by quickly. I was a little anxious getting back into the ocean after such a long layoff. I had to tell myself to relax, Second tank was much better, not such an air hog!
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Congrats on finishing the treatments! First tank always seems like a short fill to me😝😝
How was Tahiti? I've always wanted to go, been to Fiji a couple times. But Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, all on my list.
Unfortunately, scuba diving jacked me for life as I've had bad Tinnitus ever since my first and only experience in Cancun.
Was at the resort pool when Jose' came by and asked people, if they want to scuba dive? I told him I did not have a license. "Oh, he said, no problemo, I train you in a twenty minute course in the pool".
Next thing I know I'm in a boat with seven other people in the ocean. While the others were able to get to the sea floor fairly quickly, it took me a while as my ears hurt trying to equalize.
I finally managed to get down to the ocean floor and yeah it pretty cool. But on the plane trip back home my ears hurt again. The next week, I had ringing that has not stopped consistently, one of the biggest mistakes I made in my life. ☹️
Been to three different audiologists and there's nothing they can do.
Thanks... Tahiti was cool, diving was awesome as you can imagine. Probably a lot like Fiji, although I've never been to Fiji. It's on my bucket list. Saw a ton of fish, sting rays, manta rays, sharks (mostly Black Tip Reef sharks). One of the dive masters took us to a place where the sting rays like to feed. We just sat on the bottom (about 40ft) and waited. Sure enough, here they come right into this reef area, about a dozen or so. On the surface after the dive, we're heading to another spot and almost hit a humpback whale with the dive boat. That was a little intense.
Anyone dive? Wife and I are headed to Curacao next month. Plan on diving there. We haven't dove in 30 years. Took a refresher course last weekend. Just like riding a bike. Now to buy new gear.
Not a diver but have snorkeled a lot.Been to Curacao 6 times so far.last year was for a month in august
How long you going for
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Tugboat dive at directors beach close to Curacacasa bay
San Juan beach any of the 3 beaches there are good dive sites
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Not a scuba dive but recently in HI. Was floating around with my wife and dog Sydney. We bought a floaty raft for her that we can take her with when we snorkel. So on this day we were just getting her used to the floaty raft and my wife sees some big ripples go by and some rather large air bubbles coming up. Now this cove is not as clear as normal HI water but still but still not what I would call murky. Anyway, a week later my daughter and her friend are in the same cove about 8 ft apart and this huge turtle goes swimming by them. She said it's about 5 ft long (not including the tail). She said when he lifted his head out of the water it was fricken huge! I'd love to see that guy. She saw it several more times that week. I guess the guy lives there.
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That sucks. I'm just throwing this out there. I don't know how long ago this was but I know of a similar story that could possibly pertain. We used to fly a lot. A story that went around the airport was a pilot took his family up and one of the pre teen kids had a problem with their ears because he dropped altitude and landed to quickly. They went the doctor and was told to take the kid back up and descend and land slowly to let their ears adjust. As the story goes, it ended up working.
I'm curious if you have dived or flown since your incident. You should never dive or fly within 24 hours of each other. It seems you dove to deep to quick and then flying would multiply the effect which could even cause the bends. Even if you only dove 30 feet. Commercial planes generally have a cabin pressure of 8000 feet if I remember correct. Those are 2 opposite extremes.
I'm wondering if you got someone to help you with another dive with a slow decent and a slow surface might be your only solution. You could start at 20 feet and acclimate and see if it helps. I bet if you went to a dive shop someone would be willing to help you with a dive or 2 to see if it helps.
Wow that's interesting, something I never thought of nor did the audiologists. Unfortunately, it's been at least 26 years or so and the damage has been done.
What's weird is sometimes it goes away (rarely). But is loudest when I don't get enough sleep or stressed.
I know a lot of military guys who were in battle have it. I would think most rock musicians would too.
Thanks for the idea. 👍
I'm going to throw out that you had tinnitus before your dive but you really didn't notice just because of life. After your dive you paid attention to your ears and noticed. And as we age it gets worse, especially when sleep deprived. I've never heard of an association between tinnitus and not equalizing pressure, whether it be diving or flying.
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I definitely did not have Tinnitus before the ill fated dive. Remember it took me a long time before I could finally reach the ocean floor as my ears hurt. Then, on the plane ride home, I don't recall the exact days between but my ears also had pain like never before on an aircraft flight. Those are two coincidences that cannot be ignored.
I use to work for the airlines and travel a lot for free in the jump seat and stand by to go to Motorcycle races all over the country. Did that for about 4 years, those were some really good times in my life and never once did my ears hurt. Occasionally, I would have problems equalizing, but never any pain whatsoever.
Mine is more like a hissing. The sound like when you're underwater in a pool and you can hear the pump. But it's very loud. I have a sound machine on my headboard that I use nightly.
I’ve had tinnitus since I was a teenager. Loud concerts, shooting rifles, and flying airplanes without hearing protection didn’t help. I guess that since I have had it for so long, I don’t really pay attention to it. There’s nothing I can do about it, so I just deal with it.
Funny story. My dad, after his cataracts surgery complained about double vision. Anyway on one visit to a specialist, the doctor told us that he probably always had that but didn't realize it until the surgery. Then he thought it was a wrongly placed lens. He said men typically don't know when something is wrong until an event and then take inventory of what's right and wrong. Years later, I went to get my eyes checked for glasses (had been wearing the drugstore type for years) and as it turns out , what I though was just fuzzy vision, I too also had double vision (which the doctor corrected with glasses). So while you may have noticed it after the "event" how do you know that you didn't have it before and never noticed it? There are days that I don't think about it and when my wife talks about her's, I realize it's there but I've just not been focused on it. FYI, I used to fly a lot also. 1,000,000,000+ miles for me during my "real job" days. And if you're sick and still have to fly, it's like someone sticking an ice pick in your ear.
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Well, you're just gonna have to take my word for it. My first 45 years of life, I never had any kind of noise in my ears, no ear aches, nose bleeds etc., not even the slightest.
I have nothing against scuba diving, i wish I never had a problem with it cause it was pretty cool. Just looking back I wish I had the foresight to deny jose' when he told me, he could train me in the pool in twenty minutes. The other five people got down to the ocean floor pretty quickly.
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