Compressed Air Work And Diving 1909

COMPRESSED AIR WORK AND DIVING. CHAPTER I. Stage Decompression. ^“^-The tables in this b00k have been resul, rdUt aC“ 8' t0 the meth0d as the Adn ' °I le °f 3 C°mmittee aPP0inted by the British dm.ralty in August ,905. to report upon the conditions S MPJate7 ,g’ and Of the -vestigations of Dr R N Ha d‘lne; Dr A- E- B°ycott. and Lieutenant Damant, ■IV, at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Ihe pnnciple of this method is, that the diver, or halfZ 't C?mpreSSed air’ is br°^ht rapidly to about the absolute pressure, stopped there for a time, then ZZi7sseiia ’t16 further after a sufficient time inrt of h 7 e maX,'mUm nitro?en Passare in any f his body to become not more than about twice nitrogen pressure of the air at the lower stage. He untJe’2r0Ught °n further st^s on the same principle usuallv ' reaCh“. atmosPheræ pressure. The name sionV0 meth°d " that °f “ St^e decomP— decomn t.‘nCtIVe featUre- however, is not that the is rapid T StageS’ bW Aat the dec°-P^ssion are ,,r e first part and slow afterwards. Stages usually adopted because they are found to be the