decompression dive

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• Decompression (diving) — Divers decompressing in the water at the end of a dive Decompression in the context of diving derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the diver during the ascent at the end of a dive or hyperbaric exposure and refers to both …   Wikipedia

• Dive profile — A dive profile is a two dimensional graphical representation of a dive showing depth and time. It is useful as an indication of the risks of decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity and also the volume of open circuit breathing gas needed for a …   Wikipedia

• Decompression Schedule — A Decompression Schedule is a series of increasingly shallower decompression stops for (usually) increasing amounts of time that a diver uses to offgas inert gases from the diver body on the ascent to the surface to reduce the risk of… …   Wikipedia

• Dive tables — Dive Tables, Decompression Tables or Tables are printed cards or booklets that allow divers to determine for a particular dive profile and breathing gas, the Decompression stops required for that dive in order to avoid decompression sickness.With …   Wikipedia

• Decompression — has several meanings: Decompression (physics), the release of pressure and the opposition of physical compression Decompression sickness, a condition arising from the precipitation of dissolved gases into bubbles inside the body on… …   Wikipedia

• Decompression sickness — Caisson disease [decompression sickness] Classification and external resources Two United States Navy sailors prepare for training inside a decompression chamber …   Wikipedia

• Dive computer — A watch sized dive computer incorporating an electronic compass and the ability to display cylinder pressure when used with an optional transmitter (Suunto D9) A dive computer or decompression meter is a device used by a scuba diver to measure… …   Wikipedia

• Decompression stop — A decompression stop is a period of time a diver must spend at a constant depth in shallow water at the end of a dive to safely eliminate absorbed inert gases from the diver s body to avoid decompression sickness.cite book |title=Bennett and… …   Wikipedia

• Decompression curve — A SCUBA Diver makes several stops in order to safely decompress. Decompression is the act of making many stops during an ascent from depth to allow the dissolved gases, from the breathing gas, to leave the tissues of the body. If a graph of… …   Wikipedia

• Decompression chamber — A decompression chamber is a pressure vessel used in surface supplied diving to allow the divers to complete their decompression stops at the end of a dive on the surface rather than underwater. This eliminates many of the risks of long… …   Wikipedia

• decompression sickness — Pathol. aeroembolism (def. 2). [1940 45] * * * also called the bends or caisson disease Harmful effects of rapid change from a higher to a lower pressure environment. Small amounts of the gases in air are dissolved in body tissues. When pilots of …   Universalium