You have to come up very slowly. If you were to come up immediately you would almost certainly get decompression illness, ...

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IU Diving Safety Officer Sam Haskell manages the diving program at IU. In his lecture, Haskell identified the symptoms and ...

Four people have been charged over the death of a 5-year-old boy in a hyperbaric chamber at an ‘alternative medicine clinic’ ...

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A statue in honor of Eugenia Mastoridou, recognized as the first female diver in Greece, was unveiled last year at the port ...

Diving can be a fantastic experience for children, but it requires careful planning, medical evaluation and safety measures.

A study in Switzerland raised fears that diving can do long-term harm, on top of the short-term risks of brain damage, caused by decompression illness. Decompression illness - otherwise known as ...

A s commercial passenger jets fly far above altitudes where people can breathe, all aircraft are pressurized. However, ...

You also need to be cautious about decompression sickness, or "the bends," which can occur upon ascending to the surface too quickly (causing nitrogen bubbles to form in a diver's blood and ...

but Seymour cites research suggesting that because the symptoms may resemble strokes or decompression sickness, and can lead to drowning, countless more swimmers have probably fallen victim to ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy — or HBOT — might sound futuristic, but it’s rooted in decades of medical science and is quickly ...