A recent successful trial has confirmed that the British Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers can now deploy recompression chambers for submarine rescue, it was announced on 27 September. The Submarine ...

The missing Titan submersible has likely run out of oxygen. If the passengers are found, their medical treatment may include a recompression chamber. The chamber helps prevent decompression sickness ...

The only recompression chamber available to divers in the Republic has been closed due to HSE concerns that it does not meet international standards. The chamber at University Hospital Galway will be ...

As navies look to expand subsurface capabilities through the acquisition of submarines, attention is also being focused on rescue and recovery contingencies in the event of a DISSUB (disabled ...

Decompression sickness, in which bubbles formed from dissolved gas (usually nitrogen) cause tissue and vascular injury after a reduction in environmental pressure, may occur in diving, aviation, and ...

THE purpose of this paper is to report a case of mediastinal, subcutaneous and probable subpericardial emphysema treated by recompression, with subsequent recovery. On February 11, 1958, a 19-year-old ...