
Episode 48: Byford Dolphin
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The History of Compressed Air Illness
A piece titled the prevention of compressed air illness published in 1908 provided a list of tables describing staged decompression, right? It's where if you're if you have been compressed. Here are different pressures at which you should be decompressed at different amounts of time. Once we have this theory of preventing decompression sickness, there's now an ability to do something called a saturation dive. So, there's some experiments which were done in 1938, the first intentional saturation dive, which was just some people setting in a pressure vessel in a hospital in Milwaukee.
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