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One call for vinegar and now one for olive oil.   Sounds like we have a
pretty good start on salad dressing.  Any votes for adding garlic?


At 12:26 PM 2/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Not that many years back Scuba Queen manufactured a hood with air filled
ear pockets. It had a small hose that attached to the second stage for
automatic equalization.
>It was popular with the underwater miners (shallow gold dreging.) Because
of their long hours spent submerged ear infections were all too common. As
for myself, I prevent
>ear infections by always wearing a hood,(reduces the amount of water
flushing the ears)and liberal use of baby oil. This was recomended at a
diving and medicine seminar
>I attended years ago. The actual recommendation was for the use of olive
oil as a first choice and baby oil as second choice. The idea being that it
will take longer for
>the water to attack the ear canal if it must wash away an extra coating of
oil. Zero ear infections in over 1500 dives. It's simple, easy to use and
it works.
>
>Rod
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