Out of Water Use
Hyperbaric chambers are also used on land and at the ocean surface
- to treat divers for decompression sickness (recompression chambers)
- to take surface supplied divers who have been brought up from underwater through their decompression stops (decompression chambers)
- to train and test divers to adapt to hyperbaric conditions and decompression routines
- to treat people using raised oxygen pressure in hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- In saturation diving life support systems
- in scientific research requiring elevated gas pressures.
Hyperbaric chambers designed only for use out of water do not have to resist inward crushing forces, only outward expansion forces. Those for medical applications typically only operate up to two or three atmospheres, while those for diving applications may have to go to six atmospheres and above.
Lightweight portable hyperbaric chambers which can be lifted by helicopter are used by commercial diving operators and rescue services to carry one or more divers requiring hospitalisation.
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