Is it normal i got intense headache from diving as a kid?

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Came to think about this. I wonder if my classmates experienced it the same way. Remembering back at the swimming at school, we had a pool that was about 3.5 meter on the deep part if I remember right. We were frequently tasked to dive to the bottom and collect rings they threw out (among other things). It was really a struggle both due to intense pain and from needing to breathe too soon. And I failed it many times. But I also something I tried later as a challenge. I could not have gone down slower because I had to hurry to get down before I need to breathe again. Ive heard normally people should manage to dive much deeper than this.

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  • [Old Memory]
    2 years ago

    You gotta fill your lungs with air, and when you can't hold your breath anymore start exhaling through your nose. You gotta use that breath of energy to swim down, pick up the ring, cell phone, spatula, or whatever or whomever is down at the bottom, kick up and off the bottom, and get back to the surface as fast as possible. It should be one of those things you just do without thinking

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    2 years ago

    never had that

    i do have shitty inner ears that ruined my scuba career when i did my open water certification

    which sucked cause i was topa the class when we were doin classroom & pool shit

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    • [Old Memory]
      2 years ago

      When I was tested in a lake these fish would swim up and nibble your fingers if you weren't careful

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
        2 years ago

        mine was off the coasta maine in march

        it was snowin that day

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        • [Old Memory]
          2 years ago

          Oh man I hope you weren't in a wet suit. Mine was in the summer so it was nice... after my ears adjusted lol

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          • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
            2 years ago

            1/4 inch neoprene wet suit

            it was cold as fuck but i was 19 then so it werent that bad for me

            ive dove since then under nicer conditions in florida

            aside from learnin howta use the equipment and usin decompression tables the two things ive taken away from that class were always exhale when goin up and never hold your breath

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  • ellnell
    2 years ago

    I'm really bad at holding my breath also. I would never dive as getting far underwater would give me anxiety similar to claustrophobia and I can imagine holding your breath could give headaches though not sure how common it would be for as short of a time as it generally takes to swim up from the bottom of a pool.

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