Sentence examples for get decompression sickness from inspiring English sources

You can't come up faster than your smallest breath bubbles, or you'll get decompression sickness, the bends.

(Safety precautions require divers to ascend gradually, staying in one spot for several minutes at a time to allow nitrogen to exit the bloodstream, otherwise they may get decompression sickness).

You don't want to get decompression sickness.

You need to know what dangers the job brings, such as being attacked by a shark, or getting decompression sickness.

Immersed, anesthetized rats were subjected to a simulated diving profile designed to induce decompression sickness, while exposed to the transmission of an acoustic beacon.

Breathing gas mixtures such as trimix and heliox include helium, which can also cause decompression sickness.

Sonar may also affect the way some animals dive and even cause decompression sickness--called "the bends" in divers--if they surface too quickly (ScienceNOW, 14 December 2007).

He, and we, could get something like decompression sickness: the bends.

Like human divers who surface too quickly, some even get the bends (decompression sickness).

Was there a decompression chamber in case of getting "the bends", or decompression sickness from diving?

The study challenges the conventional notion that marine mammals cannot suffer from decompression sickness.