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I went scuba diving recently and had to sign a form saying that I have never suffered from a range of symptoms in order to participate, and some of them made sense like “unexplained fainting” or “serious heart conditions” but also on the list were “headaches”, “bleeding”, and “dizziness”. I checked off all of them just to not cause any issues but I really felt like the form should have been more specific
I was like halfway through certification when I learnt my constant, unremitting ear pain whilst flying meant I could not clear my ears at depth. That’s a problem, and nobody ever asked about it.
Headaches, no. Fainting, no. But my head will explode at depth, nobody asked. Weird checklist.
I'm sorry, if you ever got a papercut in your life, you can't scuba dive.
Current bleeding could attract sharks?