Dive Instructor Tom

There is nothing more frustrating than completing your final checks, jumping in the water, starting your decent and equalizing, but nothing happens. Some divers will try again and again with no results, some will push through, resulting in pain and damage to the inner structures of the ear, and some will finish their dive there and then.

It’s all too common for divers to experience problems equalizing, so common in fact that approximately 89% of divers will suffer with these issues at some point throughout their diving career. It’s surprizing that 29% of divers have to sit out of the water for days, weeks or even months due to problems caused by equalizing incorrectly and that 6.3% of divers suffer with irreparable damage.

Read the infographic below and take care!

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