One of the risks deep sea divers face is a pressure-related injury- Decompression sickness. Also called the bends, it is an injury that occurs when a diver ascends too quickly, or dives too deeply for too long. Throughout a dive, the body absorbs nitrogen from breathing compressed air. The deeper a diver descends, the denser the air that is breathed and the more nitrogen absorbed. This nitrogen forms tiny bubbles in the divers’ tissues and bloodstream. If a diver ascends to the surface too quickly, these bubbles remain trapped inside the body and can cause extreme pain in joints and organs. Severe cases of decompression sickness can be fatal.
To counter these problems, a hyperbaric chamber, sometimes called a decompression chamber, can return a diver to the same depth and pressure experienced during the actual dive. This procedure in the hyperbaric chamber allows the nitrogen in the bubbles to escape naturally, leaving only absorbable oxygen.
However, these chambers pose a great threat at sea, especially since the escape capsule or the lifeboat, is placed outside the chamber. The danger this poses to the divers undergoing the pressure adjustments is time and pressure sustenance. Not to mention the excess space taken up by the chamber system and lifeboat combined (diving ships/boats are generally small), along with the low survival rate incase of evacuation.
Thus, hyperbaric LIFEBOATS were designed. These lifeboats have the hyperbaric chamber built INSIDE the lifeboat itself thereby allowing a hassle free and fast escape during hours of distress.
The Hyperbaric Lifeboat enables divers in fully saturated environments to be rescued from the diving system should a major incident necessitate their evacuation from their operational platform.
The maintenance and servicing of these boats are part of Techno Fibre's outstanding credentials. We believe in safety at sea, to everyone and at any cost.
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