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Originally Posted by biznatch
(This thread just gets me giddy because I haven't had the chance to dive in 3+ years)
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You poor bastard. How do you do it?
Good advice above. They make nasal spray called "Ocean" sea water works the same way.
I've never had much of a problem equalizing. On one of my first dives I forgot to adjust the pressure in my mask and ended up looking like I got sucker punched in both eyes. I remember being on that dive and thinking "man, my forehead hurts." D'oh!
I think we've all done dumb things diving, especially in the beginning. I was helping with a discovery dive class a few months back. Went over everything with about 8 students, they watched the DVD, got them all ready and in the boat. I was just about to say it's time to put on fins and masks and this young lady next to me, regulator in hand, asked "so if I keep this in my mouth underwater I'll be able to breath?" "Yep, that's pretty much how this works."