Deep diving and short decompression by breathing mixed gases
- 1 November 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 20 (6) , 1267-1270
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1965.20.6.1267
Abstract
A series of test dives carried out by 14 subjects in depths between 130 and 1,000 ft. for periods varying between 5 min and 2 hr revealed that changes of the inert gas in the breathing mixture permit a considerable shortening of the decompression time. The physical and physiological basis of the method is discussed. physiological properties of He, N2, and Ar related to molecular weight and solubility; differences in diffusion rate and saturation speed of He, N2, and Ar Submitted on January 18, 1965This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: