That was the first Norman had heard of surface decompression.

Surface decompression procedures have been described as "semi-controlled accidents".

Deck decompression chambers are used for surface decompression, described in a previous section.

Afterward, while in a surface decompression chamber, the three survivors ponder what to tell the Navy about what happened.

This could explain the difference in outcomes of in-water decompression versus surface decompression.

Portable or mobile one and two occupant single compartment chambers are not generally intended for routine surface decompression, but may be used in an emergency.

A typical surface decompression procedure is described in the US Navy Diving Manual.

Decompression procedures include in-water decompression or surface decompression in a deck chamber.

Repetitive diving, multiple ascents within a single dive, and surface decompression procedures are significant risk factors for DCS.

Shilling researched the topics of nitrogen narcosis, oxygen toxicity, and decompression table development including important research on surface decompression.

They developed the techniques and equipment necessary (recompression chambers for surface decompression) to extend the use of mixed-gas diving to the deeper depths required by the offshore industry.

Surface decompression is a procedure in which some or all of the staged decompression obligation is done in a decompression chamber instead of in the water.

Van der Aue worked on procedures for surface decompression and oxygen use in the early 1950s and during his research found problems with the 1937 tables for long dive times.

Partial pressure of oxygen is usually limited to 1.6 bar during in water decompression, but can be up to 2.2 bar when using the US Navy tables for surface decompression.

A deck decompression chamber is intended for surface decompression and emergency hyperbaric treatment of divers, but can be used for other hyperbaric treatment under the appropriate supervision of hyperbaric medical personnel.

Data collected in the North Sea have shown that if the overall incidence rate of the two diving methods is about the same, that surface decompression tends to produce ten times more type II DCS than in-water decompression.

They had been taken off the minisub Deepstar III in a pressurized diving bell, and from there had been transferred to the large chamber on the deck of the ship-the SDC, the Navy called it, the surface decompression chamber.

In the case where the diver is successfully recompressed within the nominal interval, he will be decompressed according to the schedule in the air decompression tables for surface decompression, preferably on oxygen, which is used from 40 fsw (12 msw), a partial pressure of 2.2 bar.