Three whole days out of the water from a little ear squeeze? Sounds like you caught a bad one, but I've had plenty of little squeezes that cleared up in an hour with some slow swallowing. Dutch probably knows his stuff, but people act like every missed equalization is gonna blow your eardrum. I picked up a mild squeeze on a deep dive once, didn't even notice until I was on the boat, and it was gone by lunch. Sometimes a little pain is just part of the deal.

My buddy Kyle spent three hours on a Registax stack of Jupiter last month. He had 2000 frames and followed a YouTube tutorial step by step. The first result looked like a blurry potato with a red dot. He almost deleted the whole thing and gave up. Then he watched a different tutorial that showed the wavelet slider trick and it changed everything. Now he's got a framed print of it on his wall.