difficulty hearing things underwater?

[alex_can_dive]

With 7mm hood on, all I could hear is my bubbles coming out of my reg's exhaust tubes.
(My computer was beeping at me and I didn't hear a thing - until I watched my buddy's gopro)

Is this a problem? How do y'all get used to it?

(I consider myself to be extremely noise sensitive - I could detect the softest sound in the room, so it bothers me that I couldn't hear anything underwater)

 

[Marie13]

I can tell where my buddy is just by listening for bubbles. Yes, with a 7mm hood on. Guess you get used to it.

 

[TMHeimer]

I barely can hear my bubbles, sometimes I don't think I do. But, I'm 67 and taught Band 19 years.....
The silence doesn't bother me. If I hear something (a BOAT....? in Nova Scotia???) then I start to worry.

 

[CT-Rich]

I never even knew my computer had an audible alarm until someone mention it to me. I am deaf above water, so the difference is minimal…

 

[boulderjohn]

I can't hear a lot with a hood. On a trip to the Galapagos, I was looking under a ledge at a nudibranch and could not hear the DM furiously shaking his rattle to alert me to the manta ray passing over my head. A friend later said that in the future she would use her reef stick to poke me in the butt on such occasions.

As for audible computer alarms, I don't have them. Never have. I pay attention to my computer throughout the dive, so nothing is going to happen as a surprise, meaning I don't need an alarm.

Once in the Bahamas, I heard a beeping noise, and I wondered if an alarm on my computer had been turned on by mistake. I looked and saw nothing worthy of an alarm. Then I realized everyone else in the group was doing the same thing--looking at their computers to see where those beeps were coming from. Back on the boat, everyone start asking who the Hell had a computer alarm that was creating that distraction. It turned out that none of us did. It was sonar from a nearby submarine base. My point in telling that was that no one in our group had audible computer alarms, and everyone was annoyed to think that someone did.

 

[tursiops]

Although I cannot hear my computer alarms underwater -- with or without a hood -- I find them very useful, because everybody else turns to look at me when they go off and I see them doing that, so I know to look at my computer. [/SARCASM]
Both my wrist computers I have provide a vibration along with (or instead of, which is how I have them set) an audible alarm. That works for me.

 

[Hojo in SC]

I am (high pitch) tone deaf without my hearing aids and even with them I struggle. So I can't hear my computer and am also one that didn't know it made any sound until someone told me and I had to put it up to my ear. Just watch what you are doing at all times.

 

[yle]

With 7mm hood on, all I could hear is my bubbles coming out of my reg's exhaust tubes.
(My computer was beeping at me and I didn't hear a thing - until I watched my buddy's gopro)

Is this a problem? How do y'all get used to it?

It's not a problem for me. I turn off the "beeping" for my computer. One of my favorite things about diving is the silence, I don't want to hear anything when I'm diving. Normal life is noisy enough.

Don't ask my opinion on tank bangers.

 

[broncobowsher]

I found the bubbles to be annoyingly loud, so I got a rebreather.

 

[GreggS]

It depends on your computer, also. When I used Suunto computers I rarely ever heard it beep. Now I use an Oceanic and I can easily hear it.