Scuba Diving and your Ears

Simple Understanding of your Ear

As a scuba diver you may experience difficulties in equalizing your ear pressure while descending, experience some discomfort or funny sounds inside your ear even after diving or you may meet some diver who is facing this issue. Understanding some basics about your ear can reduce or prevent any problems during or after diving.

The Ear can be referred to in three sections such as outer ear, middle ear and inner ear. In the Diagram above, the Tympanic Membrane is what we commonly refer to as the ear drum, and from the ear lobe to the ear drum is the section we call the outer ear. The Cochlea is part of the inner ear which helps us with our balance. The section between the Ear drum and the Cochlea is referred to as the middle ear.

Most difficulties divers face are either in the outer ear or the middle ear. and most problems people face with equalization or discomfort in their ears during or after dives is because of wrong equalization techniques. A common misconception among divers is that you must equalize when you feel discomfort and before you feel the pain. The right time to equalize your ears is before you feel any discomfort.

If you are in Sri Lanka and you have any difficulties with equalization or any discomfort in your ears due to diving please do feel free to contact me and I can help you overcome or prevent equalization issues. There are things you can do before dives and after dives to help you with your ear problems . WhatsApp +94717373513

PADI Open Water Diver Course for Students of University of Ruhuna

Amazing Wreck Dives in Hikkaduwa

Amazing dives With PADI Open Water Divers Chaminda and the Kids

Randil’s First Scuba Diving Experience

Randil, Anushka and Ravi get ready for their initial pool training.

Beautiful sunny day , calm sea and on the way to Pigeon Island Marine National park

Randil assisting Anushka with the equipment

And she is ready to get wet!

The whole group missing Deidre

Randil and Ravi take their first breath underwater

At the Pigeon Island National Park

Anushka takes her first breath underwater

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving Training

86 wonderful 1st year degree students at the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, University of Ruhuna, began Snorkeling and Scuba Diving training.

The University of Ruhuna is a beautiful campus situated in Matara in the deep southern coast of Sri Lanka. It has over 8 Faculties and the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science is one of the best places to study Aquaculture, Oceanography and Marine Biology in Sri Lanka.

Very keen an enthusiastic students were so eager to learn Snorkeling and Scuba Diving and to explore the amazing underwater world.

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PADI Open Water Course for Nethmi and Aaditya.

Great start today with an amazing dive to end the day. Nethmi and Aditya worked hard with theory and pool training.

Looking forward to 2 amazing dives tomorrow with Turtles, Sting rays and hopefully some Black tip reef sharks.

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Maheli & Thamodie Discover Scuba Diving

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School of Jacks (Parauw)

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Church Youth Program

Rev. Ridgeway and the team

The Youth President

School of Jacks (Parauw)

Just getting the feel

Mermaids

Going deep

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Group Pic

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Rev. Ridgeway and his team of youth visited Poseidon Diving station in Hikkaduwa to experience and see a glimpse of God’s amazing creation under water.

The Ocean covers 70% of earth, and so much more of God’s creation is found in the Ocean. From Blue whales that can be larger than 2 CTB busses to tiny sea horses and little shrimps smaller than your finger. All creation proclaims the Glory of God!

Mankind is God’s highest creation, how much more should we proclaim the glory of God through our lives, decisions, words and actions?

Minzy and Isuri try Scuba Diving

Illegal , Destructive Fishing

Dynamite fishing was banned in Sri Lanka over 100 years ago, but sadly in a few areas this is practiced illegally.

This is a very destructive form of fishing, killing and damaging a lot of marine life in the area close to where it is done. Plus a lot of the fish are not collected and hence a large qty is wasted.

In this video you can hear the explosions if you switch the volume on, and you can see the reaction of the divers. The explosion most likely is done more than 6 km’s away from the dive site. Maybe this could be a reason for the aggressive behavior of the puffer fish in my previous post. Please feel free to comment on this.