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    There are several categories of decompression equipment used to help divers decompress, which is the process required to allow divers to return to the...
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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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    growth, with decompression sickness as a consequence. Partial pressure of oxygen is usually limited to 1.6 bar during in water decompression for scuba divers...
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  • class remotely operated underwater vehicles Decompression tables – Tabulated data to determine a decompression schedule for a given dive profile Dive planning –...
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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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    analysis of decompression status of the diver. decompression bar decompression buoy decompression chamber Hyperbaric chamber used for decompressing divers...
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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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    remaining decompression as surface decompression either after an ambient pressure ascent or after transfer under pressure from a dry bell. (decompression chambers)...
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    ratio decompression A technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged in deep diving without using dive tables, decompression software...
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    conservative decompression schedule the risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced, and the total time spent decompressing is minimised....
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    overlap where similar equipment is used, and some concepts are common to all decompression procedures. Normal diving decompression procedures range from...
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    maximum depth and, when used with a watch and Decompression tables, also allows the diver to monitor decompression requirements. Some digital depth gauges also...
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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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    Scuba diving (redirect from Scuba equipment)
    effectiveness requires real-time computer processing by the diver's decompression computer. Decompression can be much reduced compared to fixed ratio gas mixes used...
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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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    Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from...
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    the top of the frame. AGE aggressive decompression Decompression schedule tending to shorter overall decompression time for a given pre-ascent dive profile...
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    decompression on a specified gas, commonly oxygen, as treatment for decompression sickness or as prophylaxis for incomplete or missed decompression after...
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    decompression gas Decompression (diving) – Pressure reduction and its effects during ascent from depth Decompression equipment – Equipment used by divers...
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  • Oxygen tank (category Decompression equipment)
    (high pressure cylinder) breathing at altitude in aviation, either in a decompression emergency, or constantly (as in unpressurized aircraft), usually in...
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    be decompression dives. The distinction is between dives for which there is no obligatory decompression stop, and dives for which the decompression planning...
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    Exponential/linear decompression algorithm used in the 2008 US Navy decompression tables. therapeutic recompression A procedure for treating decompression sickness...
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    Trim weights Weight belt Decompression equipment Decompression buoy Decompression chamber Decompression cylinder Decompression trapeze Dive computer Diving...
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    Trim weights Weight belt Decompression equipment Decompression buoy Decompression chamber Decompression cylinder Decompression trapeze Dive computer Diving...
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    Trim weights Weight belt Decompression equipment Decompression buoy Decompression chamber Decompression cylinder Decompression trapeze Dive computer Diving...
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  • procedure of making stops is called staged decompression, and the stops are called decompression stops. Decompression stops that are not computed as strictly...
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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 badly...
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    dive at surface pressure. The diver is decompressed during the ascent or by surface decompression in a decompression chamber. In addition to the standard...
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    underwater diving professionals, who need to treat conditions such as decompression sickness. Oxygen first aid is the providing of oxygen to casualties...
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    interrupted. On 27 June, three BCRC cave divers arrived with specialist equipment including HeyPhone radios, followed by separate teams of open water divers...
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