To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression. Divers follow a decompression model to safely allow...

ambient pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled...

Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric...

Physiology of decompression – The physiological basis for decompression theory and practice Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm – Mathematical...

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...

bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can...

conservative decompression schedule the risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced, and the total time spent decompressing is minimised....

Ratio decompression (usually referred to in abbreviated form as ratio deco) is a technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged...

Physiology of decompression – The physiological basis for decompression theory and practice Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm – Mathematical...

of decompression sickness in 5.3% of cases by the U.S. Navy as reported by Powell, 2008 including isobaric decompression sickness. Decompression sickness...