Equalize Your Ears While Scuba Diving - Including a Special Trick

Equalize your ears while scuba diving explained in an easy way. These are great tips on how to equalise your ears for scuba diving for beginners and experienced divers.
Many people struggle to Equalize their Ears when they go Scuba Diving. They think they have an ear problem and many stop scuba diving because of it. But I found out that most of the time it is because people don’t use the right equalizing techniques or have been taught how to equalize their ears while diving the wrong way.
Timestamps and chapters for key moments in this video:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Why do we need to equalize our air spaces when scuba diving?
00:47 What are our air spaces?
01:23 Different ways to equalise your ears while scuba diving
01:27 Valsalva maneuver
01:32 How to do Valsalva maneuver
04:01 Swallow to equalize ear pressure when diving
04:25 Wiggle your jaw to equalize your ears while scuba diving
04:46 Use all techniques to equalise your ears
05:06 Let's try all the different equalizing techniques
06:50 Special trick: Clear congestion before trying to equalise your ears
09:40 Don't equalize your ears to hard
Please watch the whole video as I will be teaching a very special Tip How to Equalize your Ears while Diving in the end of the video.
My first tip to equalize your ears while diving is to use the valsalva maneuver.
If that does not work well for you, then I recommend to go up (ascent) a little bit and try it again. If that still does not work for you then try the second best equalizing technique to equalize your ears while scuba diving is to swallow. Some people even prefer to swallowing over the valsalva maneuver (pinching of the nose) to equalize their ears while scuba diving.
The third tip to equalize the ears is to wiggle or move your jaw from side to side. This stretches the Eustachian tubes and that can equalize your ears.
You can also try to move your head from side to side or even do all equalizing technique the same time! This will look very funny, but who care is it get's the job done! :)
Why does blowing the nose help in equalizing your ears diving?
May people have congestion in their sinuses and that congestion can block the Eustachian tubes, making it impossible to blow air to our eardrums. By blowing your nose underwater you remove that congestion allowing any of the equalizing techniques described above to work well.
The way to do it is to keep your mask on your face, then gently but long blow your nose, one nostril at the time. This will create some congestion in your mask. Just clear it by exhaling through your nose and then afterwards pinch your nose and do the valsalva maneuver. You will be amazed how easy it is now to equalize your ears while scuba diving.
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