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Decompression is where you de-compress or return to the surface or shallower water. Under pressure, gasses dissolve into the blood. Sometimes decompressing quickly can mean that these gasses cannot come out of your lungs easily and the result on your body is similar to opening a bottle of carbonated drink. These bubbles are very dangerous and can cause decompression sickness. also known as the bends or caisson's disease. This can be avoided by not going very deep or staying down too long and returning to the surface slowly.
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How do you use the word decompression in a sentence?
The decompression of gas caused the tube to break. Removing compression from something is decompression.
What decompression sickness do scuba divers suffer from?
It is called "The Bends"
Who gets decompression sickness?
Scuba divers who surface too quickly after a deep dive are prone to decompression sickness.
What gas is most directly responsible for the bends or decompression sickness that divers may experience?
Nitrogen.
What is the gas that causes decompression sickness?
helium
What are other names for the bends?
Decompression sickness (DCS) is the medical condition also called divers' disease, the bends, or caisson disease.
Why do scuba divers need to be depressurised?
That only occurs when divers remain under longer than the recommended no-decompression limits. But it is done to allow the body to slowly rid itself of nitrogen that has built up in the bloodstream due to breathing pressurized air at depth. If it isn't done, the bubbles pop in a blood and cause decompression sickness, which is very dangerous.
What are three factors that made pearl diving so dangerous in the early 1900s?
Free divers risk the danger of drowning while underwater, especially in areas requiring divers to descend to extreme depths. All pearl divers risk encountering dangers under the water, including sharks and other sea life. Many Australian pearl divers perished during storms that claimed the pearling boats while the divers were still on the bottom. Beyond environmental hazards, pearl divers also have to cope with the "bends," a condition caused when rapid decompression from quick surface ascent causes nitrogen bubbles to form in the bloodstream.
What causes melting of material under divergent plate boundaries Is it melting of rock recompression of rock freezing of rock or decompression of rock?
decompression of rock
The bends also known as decompression sickness is as painful condidtion that occurs in scuba divers who asend too quickly.?
If you wanted to know if this is true, then yes, this is the Bends.
What do divers call a bubble of gas formed in their circulatory system?
The condition where gas forms bubbles in a diver's system is known as decompression sickness, or more commonly referred to as, the bends. The only effective treatment to avoid severe pain and death is time in a decompression chamber.
What friction causes a sky divers to change as she falls?
Fluid Friction
