Developed by the French Navy in 1990, the MN90 Decompression Tables remain a fundamental part of professional and recreational dive training, guiding divers on the necessary decompression stops after ...

SCUBA diving has always been a sport of measurement. Whether it’s getting a reading on depth, determining the correct gas mixture or recording time spent underwater, accurate calculations can mean the ...

IN the past few years the sport of "skin diving" (both with and without underwater breathing apparatus) has found many enthusiastic adherents in the general populace. Unfortunately, there has not been ...

DISCUSSIONS on the mechanism of decompression sickness have been focused mainly on the saturation and desaturation of the tissues with inert gases. To assess the capacity of the organism to free ...

In scuba divers with patent foramen ovale (PFO) featuring high-grade shunts, percutaneous closure is more effective than conservative diving recommendations at preventing decompression sickness (DCS), ...

Catheter-based closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) may alleviate decompression sickness in scuba divers by eliminating embolization of arterial bubbles, according to a case-controlled observational ...

Decompression sickness is a type of injury that occurs when there’s a rapid decrease in pressure surrounding the body. It usually occurs in deep-sea divers who ascend to the surface too quickly. With ...