Diving hazards and precautions
- Diving hazards and precautions
Divers face specific physical and health risks when they go underwater (e.g. with scuba or other diving equipment) or use high pressure breathing gases. Some of these conditions also affect people who work in raised pressure environments out of water, e.g. in caissons.
The ordinary features of diving
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On ascent
Air spaces within the body expand when the outside pressure decreases. This can happen from holding the breath on ascent, or from losing control of buoyancy causing excessive vertical speed during ascent. Click on the boldface links to find symptoms and more information for each topic.
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ee also
* Alternobaric_vertigo
* Deep water blackout for latent hypoxia on ascent from breath-hold dive
* Diver rescue
* Divers Alert Network
* Diving equipment
* Rubicon Foundation
* Shallow water blackout for hypoxia resulting from hyperventilation prior to breath-hold dive
* Task loading
External links
* [http://www.DDRC.org Diving Diseases Research Centre]
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