freediver wrote on Oct 3
rd, 2019 at 6:38pm:
I get seasick and bubbly ears if I spend too much time looking for crays.
The trick is to keep diving, even if just halfway down. Don't spend too much time bobbing around with the slop on top.
Spend as much time under.
Soon as I surface, I do my breathing stint and then go back down, mostly to a half-way mark to look around - which is always better than from the surface.
I would even go so far to say that it improves my retention after 30 minutes of doing it.
We call guys (and women) who just slop on top mostly as 'Jellyfish'.
I dive down and strafe just above the bottom by 5 metres (if in 15m) for 10-15m in regards to any directional travel. I'm also recognising underwater landmarks better. My surface time is just breathing time - almost like a zen moment of nothing else, but breathing.
If I see a Cray, etc - then I dive back down to that spot fully and begin the extraction with my special tool.