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Getting Water Out of Your Ear
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The study in Section 2 discusses why they chose this
So it is true that it depends on how much water gets trapped. They chose the worst case scenario. Another trick my father suggested was to intentionally fill up a bit more water and it gets easier to get the whole water out.