Magic. I was right there with you. Have you done any free-diving? I've only dabbled, but it doesn't take long to get your downtime up.
This was at Port Noarlunga reef a few years ago.
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This was at Port Noarlunga reef a few years ago.
Oh how enchanting! I have never free dived but have always always wanted to, I should look into it when it gets a little warmer. Pair of flippers and maybe some goggles, good to go! Would Port Noarlunga be the best place to go?
Yeah, Porties is excellent. The jetty goes all the way out to the reef. The shallow side (where this footage was taken) only gets about 4-5m deep.
The open ocean side is a couple of metres deeper and a bit rougher.
All a marine sanctuary, so plenty of fish to see.
It doesn't take much practice to build up some capacity. Look up MDR, The Mammalian Dive Reflex.
Splash some water on your face for a while and your body starts changing it's rhythm to give you more down-time. Fascinating.
Ooooh yes!! Thank you for the solid lead, bring summer on I can’t wait to give it a whirl
Do you ever get issues with pressure on your ears? I always struggled to go down far without the pain in my ears. I wonder if it's something you can adapt to.
You need to equalize.
Squeeze your nose, close your mouth and try to exhale. This increases the air pressure in your sinuses and pushes back against the increased water pressure on the outside of the ear drum.
You hear a small thump or pop in each ear and the pain stops. Do it once around 2m, then again around 5m. I've never had to do it again any deeper.
On the way up the excess pressure just drains away; (unless you have a completely blocked sinus, then the pressure has nowhere to go and you blow that eardrum out.)
Eek! You just reminded of my sister telling me she caused a nosebleed trying to equalise while scuba diving one day!
I wonder of you can get prescription swim goggles? 🤔
Handy if you don't have your glasses and a good security measure, since thieves can't see where they're going.My brother @danclarke has a book of satirical inventions. One is a prescription windshield.
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Dental barotrauma is the ickiest one though. More for scuba divers.
If you get a filling and the dentist leaves an air pocket in there, as you go deeper the increased pressure sucks blood from your gum into the air pocket.
On the way back up the blood has nowhere to go, so your tooth explodes.
Ooooh, that's nasty!!!