Decompression (diving)
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The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth or depressurisation of a diving chamber. It is also the process of elimination of dissolved metab
Divers decompressing in the water at the end of a dive
Basic deck decompression chamber
Recreational decompression tables printed on plastic cards
Divers using the anchor cable as an aid to depth control during a decompression stop
Saturation diving
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Saturation diving is an ambient pressure diving technique which allows a diver to remain at working depth for extended periods during which the body tissues become saturated with metabolically inert g
Decompression (diving)
…be taken up until the gas dissolved in the diver is in a state of equilibrium with the breathing gas in the diver's lungs, at which point the diver is saturated for that depth and breathing mixture, or the depth, and therefore the pressure, is changed, or the partial pressures of the gases are changed by modifying…
Saturation diver working on the USS Monitor wreck at 70 m (230 ft) depth
Saturation diver conducting deep-sea salvage operations
Iremis da Vinci at the Albert Dock Basin, Port of Leith. A multi-purpose diving support vessel, built in the Republic of Korea in 2011, and registered at Majuro, Marshall Islands, it is 115.4m long and has a gross tonnage of 8691t.
Tektite I habitat