Divers Suffer From Oxygen Toxicity

Divers can also succumb to oxygen toxicity, which can be a result of breathing molecular oxygen high pressures. Oxygen is poisonous, so that's why the other habitats on air, you're limited to about forty five to 50 feet deep. The central nervous system can be effected during a dive due to short sure to increased partial pressure of oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure. This sort of thing can happen during recompression treatments, like those used to top the onset of decompression sickness.