Probability of decompression sickness in no-stop air diving and subsaturation diving.

Two unusual presentations of probable decompression sickness after deep mixed-gas recreational diving.

We present two unusual presentations of decompression sickness manifesting at previous injury sites after deep mixed-gas recreational diving. While previous injury is often cited as a predisposing factor in decompression illness, formal case reports of this phenomenon are rare in the diving literature.

The incidence of decompression illness in 10 years of scientific diving.

BACKGROUND The American Academy of Underwater Science (AAUS) constitutes the single largest pool of organizations with scientific diving programmes in North America. Members submit annual summaries of diving activity and any related incidents. METHODS All diving records for a 10-year period between January 1998 and December 2007 were reviewed. Incidents were independently classified or reclas...

[Morphologic shock equivalents in air embolism, diving accidents and decompression sickness].

Health outcome following multi-day occupational air diving.

Acclimatization to decompression stress has been reported in caisson workers and helium-oxygen divers; however the alternative notion that the risk of decompression sickness increases with successive days of diving is widespread. We examined 201 multi-day series of 2 to 29 diving days identified retrospectively in a database of occupational air dives for evidence of acclimatization or sensitiza...

Fundamentals of SCUBA-Diving Physics

Diving with an underwater breathing apparatus has been the subject of research in several scientific areas for a long time. Decompression and recompression are complex and involve knowledge of physics and physiology. The purpose of this article was to review the basic physics of autonomous diving and to describe phenomena not so obvious to scientists working in other fields. Special emphasis wa...