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Why does nobody mention how loud the surface comms are underwater?

Did my third mixed-gas dive off the Gulf coast last Tuesday and realized something that blew my mind. I pulled up my logbook after and counted 47 times the tender's voice crackled through my comms in a single 90-minute bottom time. Found out from a dive supervisor in Galveston that comms volume is actually set to overcompensate for regulator noise, which I never considered. Is that standard across all outfits, or do some of you turn the gain down? Has anyone else gotten a headache from that constant hiss and chatter?
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tyler_bell
tyler_bell23d ago
Got a splitting headache once just from my own breathing.
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