Sentences with phrase «avoided decompression sickness»

It took him nearly 14 hours to resurface, as he carefully avoided decompression sickness.
At depths of several hundred, feet, divers have to ascend slowly in order to avoid decompression sickness (the «bends»), which makes every minute at the bottom a precious commodity.
Zeljko Dujic, a physiologist at the University of Split School of Medicine in Croatia, says the secret to avoiding this decompression sickness could be vigorous exercise.
You have measurements of altitude so that you can avoid decompression sickness, as well as clear indicators of how long you've been diving for.
Each section covers various theoretical knowledge about diving from learning how to calculate no - stop times, how to avoid decompression sickness, how your gear works, and lots of other information on diving safety.

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When dolphins dive deep below the water's surface, they avoid succumbing to decompression sickness, or «the bends,» likely because the massive sea creatures have collapsible lungs, a new study finds.
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