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    Decompression theory is the study and modelling of the transfer of the inert gas component of breathing gases from the gas in the lungs to the tissues...
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    To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression. Divers follow a decompression model to safely allow...
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  • Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric...
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    in tissues Decompression theory – Theoretical modelling of decompression physiology Equivalent air depth – Method of comparing decompression requirements...
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    tissues Decompression (diving) – Pressure reduction and its effects during ascent from depth Decompression theory – Theoretical modelling of decompression physiology...
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  • sets are used to create decompression tables and in personal dive computers to compute no-decompression limits and decompression schedules for dives in...
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    bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can...
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  • or fail to pressurize at all. Such decompression may be classed as explosive, rapid, or slow: Explosive decompression (ED) is violent and too fast for air...
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  • Ratio decompression (usually referred to in abbreviated form as ratio deco) is a technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged...
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    ambient pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled...
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    time required for decompression to surface pressure will not increase with longer exposure. The diver undergoes a single decompression to surface pressure...
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    Haldane's decompression model is a mathematical model for decompression to sea level atmospheric pressure of divers breathing compressed air at ambient...
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    of long decompressions underwater, in cold or dangerous conditions. A decompression chamber may be used with a closed bell for decompression after bounce...
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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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  • Decompression Illness (DCI) comprises two different conditions caused by rapid decompression of the body. These conditions present similar symptoms and...
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    area. The current also did its work." The latest reference to the decompression theory of the missing bodies was made by Lieutenant General Valeri Kamenski...
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    Diver training (redirect from Diving theory)
    "Altitude-induced Decompression Sickness" (PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved 21 February 2012. Gorman, Des. "Decompression theory" (PDF). Royal...
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    A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth...
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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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  • Tribonucleation (category Decompression theory)
    scuba divers when ascending to the surface and is a potential cause of decompression sickness. The process has also been described as the basis for the cracking...
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    type of short, optional deep decompression stop performed by scuba divers at depths well below the first decompression stop mandated by a conventional...
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    Most of the time surgery is eventually required and may include core decompression, osteotomy, bone grafts, or joint replacement. About 15,000 cases occur...
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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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  • Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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  • Kidd, Canadian decompression researcher, Kidd–Stubbs decompression model, DCIEM decompression tables Eric P. Kindwall – Decompression sickness treatment...
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    Byford Dolphin (category Decompression accidents and incidents)
    was the site of several serious incidents, most notably an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as critically...
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  • Thalmann algorithm (category Decompression algorithms)
    Algorithm (VVAL 18) is a deterministic decompression model originally designed in 1980 to produce a decompression schedule for divers using the US Navy...
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