A diving chamber has two main functions:
- as a simpler form of submersible vessel to take divers underwater and to provide a temporary base and retrieval system in the depths;
- as a land or ship-based hyperbaric chamber to artificially reproduce the hyperbaric conditions under the sea (pressures above normal atmospheric pressure) for diving-related and non-diving medical applications such as hyperbaric medicine).
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