Almost every diver has felt it…you’re on the surface starting a dive. As soon as you deflate your BC and descend a few feet…that crushing pain in one (or maybe both) ears. Maybe it’s never happened to you before. Or maybe you worry about it all the time. You try going back up and equalizing again. Hopefully that works. But if not, do you do the safe thing and scrub the dive, scrapping all the money and time it took to get to your favorite dive spot? Or just empty your