Other less common ear problems in swimmers include otomycosis, exostoses ("surfer's ear"), traumatic tympanic membrane perforation, otitis media, and barotraumas of the inner ear.
Local swimmers include Navy veteran and Paralympic gold medalist Brad Snyder of Baltimore; Frostburg State's Zachary Shattuck of Mount Airy; Loyola Maryland's Alyssa Gialamas and Coan McKenzie, both of Baltimore; Cortney Jordan of Baltimore; and Stephanie Vrettakos of Ellicott City.
For an afternoon session, Cotterell had 37 swimmers, including three reigning world champions, under his watch.
The challenge drew 26 first-time island swimmers, including 24-year-old Jeanne Coon, a graphic designer from Morristown, N.J.
Those swimmers included Mark Spitz and John Kinsella, each a Sullivan Award winner as America's outstanding amateur athlete, and Charlie Hickcox, Chet Jastremski, Gary Hall Sr., Mike Troy, Jim Montgomery and Frank McKinney.
Curl oversaw one of the largest, most successful clubs in the United States, and his top swimmers included Tom Dolan, a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Spitz is a consistent presence at major events, and many of the world's top swimmers, including Ian Thorpe of Australia, have made a point of being introduced.
A group of synchronised swimmers, including the British Olympian Katie Clark, braved the rain at the 2015 Chelsea flower show to take a dip in a show-garden pond.
Coach Don Talbot threatened to withdraw his team from yesterday's races, complaining that swimmers, including Thorpe, had not been provided with tamper-proof containers during the testing.
Beats headphones have been almost ubiquitous in the Aquatics Centre with swimmers including Michael Phelps using them to block background noise before races.
But Tyr does have its own lineup of celebrity swimmers, including Yana Klochkova, who was a gold medal winner in the 2000 Olympics.
