PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1 DECOMPRESSION TABLES AND COMPUTERS
PART I - BRIEF REVIEW OF PRESSURE
Ambient Pressure
How Nitrogen Gets In and Out Of Your Body
PART II - WHERE DECOMPRESSION TABLES AND COMPUTERS COME FROM History
Modern Practice
What Decompression Tables and Computers Calculate
PART III - BASIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS Compartments
Partial Pressure
Nitrogen Tension
Half-times
Fast and Slow Compartments
Saturation and Desaturation
Saturation Diving
Supersaturation
Supersaturation Ratios
M-Values
Table-Based and Model-Based Computers
PART IV - NON-HALDANE DECOMPRESSION MODELS Statistical Models
Series Model
EL Model
Slab Model
Varying Permeability Model Reduced Gradient Bubble Model
PART V - DIVING WITH GASES OTHER THAN AIR Oxygen Enriched Air
Heliox
Trimix
Gas Switching
CHAPTER 2 IMMERSION EFFECTS
PART I - DIVE REFLEX
What Is The Dive Reflex?
Different In Humans and Marine Animals Role In Humans
Individual Variation
Mechanisms
Preventing Problems
PART II - IMMERSION DIURESIS
Why Does It Occur?
Mechanical Factors
Chemical Factors
Environmental Factors
Personal Factors
Factors Unknown
There Is Gravity Underwater
Hand-In-Water Myth
Handling Diuresis
Rehydrating Underwater
CHAPTER 3 DIVING IN COLD AND HEAT
PART I -WHY DO YOU GET COLD?
How You Lose Heat
Key Concept In Heat Transfer
Skin Temperature and Core Temperature Are Different How You Conserve Core Heat
How You Gain Body Heat
PART II - SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COLD
What Is Hypothermia and What Is It Not?
Body Size and Shape
Age
Behavior
Medication
Rest and Exercise
Physical Fitness
Protective Clothing
Gender
Acclimatization
Other Influences
PART III - DIVING IN THE COLD
Respiratory Effects
Vascular Effects
Manual Impairment
Mental Function Cardiovascular Effects Metabolic Effects Renal Effects Thermostat Effects Fatigue
Nitrogen Effects Preventing Cold Injury
PART IV - DIVING IN THE HEAT
Environmental Variables Human Variables
Shirts or Skins?
Preventing Heat Injury
CHAPTER 4 GENDER FACTS AND FOLKLORE
PART I - MEN
Penile and Testicular Implants Infertility
Offspring Gender
Hair Restoration
PART II - WOMEN
Pregnancy
Oral Contraceptives
Breast Implants
PART III - ISSUES AFFECTING BOTH
Work Load
Diving Accidents
Cardiovascular Health
Spontaneous Pneumothorax
Flexibility and Joint Injury
Joint Structure and Injury
Diver's Acne
Back Pain
Overweight
Eating Disorders
Anabolic Steroids and Steroid Substitutes
Air Consumption
Slipping Weight Belt
Hernia
PART IV - FOLKLORE
Decompression Sickness
Hypothermia
Hyperthermia
Dehydration
Drag
Sharks
CHAPTER 5 DIVING INJURIES
PART I - LUNG INJURIES
Breath-hold Injury
Pneumothorax
Bronchitis
Emphysema
Asthma
Pneumonia
Pulmonary Edema
Preventing Lung Injury
PART II - DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS
How Decompression Sickness Occurs
Where Are The Bubbles?
Mechanical Effects Of DCS
Biochemical Effects Of DCS
Where Do Bubbles Hurt You?
DCS or AGE?
Factors Affecting Risk
Bubbles Not All Bad?
Tiny Bubbles And Tin
