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Diving medicine deals with medical research on issues of diving, the prevention of diving disorders, treatment of diving accidents and diving fitness. The field includes the effect of breathing gases and their contaminants under high pressure on the human body and the relationship between the state of physical and psychological health of the ...
This painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768, depicts an experiment originally performed by Robert Boyle in 1660. Decompression in the context of diving derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the diver during the ascent at the end of a dive or hyperbaric exposure and refers to both the reduction in pressure and the process of ...
Bennett and Elliott's physiology and medicine of diving (5th Revised ed.). United States: Saunders. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-7020-2571-6. OCLC 51607923. Diving First Aid Manual, John Lippmann and Stan Bugg, DAN SEAP Membership Edition; The Diving Emergency Handbook, John Lippmann and Stan Bugg, ISBN 0-946020-18-3
The timeline of underwater diving technology is a chronological list of notable events in the history of the development of underwater diving equipment.With the partial exception of breath-hold diving, the development of underwater diving capacity, scope, and popularity, has been closely linked to available technology, and the physiological constraints of the underwater environment.
Wells developed diving procedures for oxygen-enriched air throughout the 1970s, and published a standard for Nitrox I in 1978, followed by the Nitrox II standard in 1990, and wrote many articles on the use of Nitrox in diving. [2] He later developed the NOAA Trimix I standard mixture of oxygen, helium, and nitrogen used in deep diving.
Diving medical personnel need to be able to recognize and treat accidents from large and small predators and poisonous creatures, appropriately diagnose and treat marine infections and illnesses from pollution as well as diverse maladies such as sea sickness, traveler's diarrhea and malaria.
Diving medicine deals with medical research on issues of diving, the prevention of diving disorders, treatment of diving accident injuries and diving fitness. The field includes the effect on the human body of breathing gases and their contaminants under high pressure, and the relationship between the state of physical and psychological health ...
1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is won by Brazil. 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.