6 résultats pour "décompression"

• DÉCOMPRESSION, substantif féminin.

• décompression (accident de).

• Le palier de décompression

• Diving (underwater).

  compensator (or control) device (BCD or BC), which the diver wears as a vest. By adding air to the BCD, the diver becomes more buoyant and rises. By releasing air,the diver becomes less buoyant and sinks. With minor adjustments of air, the diver can achieve neutral buoyancy. A third hose attaches to pressure gauges that diversuse to monitor how much air remains in the tank. A fourth hose attaches to a backup breathing device called an alternate air source, or octopus. Divers also wear a belt w...

• plongée, n.

  profondeur à laquelle il va travailler. Une cloche, également sous pression, l'amène sur son lieu de travail et le remonte après quelques heures. Ce cycle peut durer un mois. Ensuite, le plongeur revient progressivement à la pression atmosphérique dans le caisson hyperbare. Le record de plongée à saturation en pleine mer est détenu depuis 1988 par les plongeurs de la Comex. Lors de l'expérience Hydra VIII, ils ont vécu six jours à moins 530 m et la décompression a duré dix-sept jours. Les plong...

• Aerospace Medicine - astronomy.

  medically as aeroembolism and popularly as the bends, leads to confusion, paralysis, or neurocirculatory collapse. The most characteristic symptoms of the bends arepain in the large joints resulting from pressure of the gas on tendons and nerves, together with spasm of the blood vessels. Preflight inhalation of pure oxygen toeliminate nitrogen from the system has proved valuable as a preventive measure. Rapid decompression, resulting from accidental failure at high altitudes of thepressure withi...