Equalising is difficult cause it's different for each person. Even after a whole load of dives and training I cant do the hold-your-nose-and-blow-out thing. I have to swallow, which after 50 minutes of compressed air, really gets difficult 
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Done my PADI open water in koh tao. Then my 30 metre adventure deep so i can go to 30 metres. Did a 2 or 3 more fun dives after that too. Equalising is easy, just hold your nose and blow.
Great fun, i was going to do advanced but for the cost i just did the deep dive instead. I hated navigation part of open water and night dive means you cant see much. I dive to see things
Great fun, i was going to do advanced but for the cost i just did the deep dive instead. I hated navigation part of open water and night dive means you cant see much. I dive to see things
Found some where close to me hydroactive 
When i was in Northampton there was some where near to me but it disappeared
MW
When i was in Northampton there was some where near to me but it disappeared
MW
For some people Equalising is easy, other people harder, for me my left ear sometimes gets a bit 'stuck', takes quite a bit more effort than usual to clear it and continue descending, then makes lovely squeeks/pops all the way to the surface
Worth doing Advanced imo, navigation is easy (basically counting fin kicks + looking at compass to make shapes likes squares) and night isn't a pre-requisite of Advanced OW (just deep and navigation) and some places have minimum qualification levels (mainly liveaboards).
Back to the night dives though, did a couple on the liveaboard, and there is this wonderful invention called a torch, lets you see in the dark, fabulous
There is lots of life down there that you don't see during the day generally, crabs, octopus' and things like moray eels are either hiding completely or in the case of moray eels just sitting there, but at night they go out and party, seeing a 2m long moray actually swimming around hunting rather than just a huge face poking out a rock is quite good
Oh, and you can play god and help the lion fish hunt by illuminating their prey, great fun
Some of the things you see on a Night dive are incredible, see crap loads of crabs and stuff, also some fish that arn't out in the day.
Also there is this realy odd effect, not sure if it depends on location or whatever but when you shake your arms/legs etc you see these odd little particles, very cool.
It's incredibly calm and relaxing, a bit eary though. And yes, torches ***.
Also there is this realy odd effect, not sure if it depends on location or whatever but when you shake your arms/legs etc you see these odd little particles, very cool.
It's incredibly calm and relaxing, a bit eary though. And yes, torches ***.
For some people Equalising is easy, other people harder, for me my left ear sometimes gets a bit 'stuck', takes quite a bit more effort than usual to clear it and continue descending, then makes lovely squeeks/pops all the way to the surface
Diving i was fine. About 2 weeks in thailand after i did mui tai against my mate for 2 free buckets i carried on snorkeling, everytime i went down i equalised and bubbles would come out of my right ear (also air when i was not in the water) I thought nothing of it and carried on.
I asked a dive instructor who i met and apparently i had a perfirated ear drum from a kick to the side of the head and shouldnt even be in the water. oops
Also noted on the night dives. Think im just convincing myself they are crap because i didnt do one
For some people Equalising is easy, other people harder, for me my left ear sometimes gets a bit 'stuck', takes quite a bit more effort than usual to clear it and continue descending, then makes lovely squeeks/pops all the way to the surface
Aye, I only went down 10m and was in a bit of discomfort, some others didn't come down but after trying to equalise about 3 times my ears were fine and I carried on, had to do it every so often as well as I changed buoyancy.
Do it somewhere like thailand. Instead of monkeying around in swimming pools your straight into the sea, then swim to shallow waters
Dont see the point in swimming pools, you need to get used to the sea water in your eyes and mouth and also the sand
I agree that new divers need to get used to sea water but training in the pool is a lot safer for learning the basics, I wish I had the opportunity to have a go in the pool before my first ow dive