Jim, you should make a run over to Catalina some time. The diving's great, and if you call ahead sometimes you can get a chamber tour.
And if you don't call ahead, just surface real fast. Then you'll get the tour for sure.
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Jim, you should make a run over to Catalina some time. The diving's great, and if you call ahead sometimes you can get a chamber tour.
Look up the "Byford Dolphin" accident. Pretty gruesome, but it has exploding heads and bodies. The explosive decomp. was from 9 atm. (far higher than therapeutic chambers are usually able to generate). The chamber tech who killed these divers also paid the ultimate price for his mistake. The worst of the physical damage was actualy caused by one of the bodies being forced through a small orafice.
A reality show Tells a story of a Female Scuba Diver doing a dive to 350ft, Something goes wrong and she has to bolt for the surface.
She makes it, But of course has to take a chamber ride, during the time she is in the Chamber, somehow someone Opens the chamber door and it instantly Kills her and sends Blood flying......
I hate to sound Stupid, But could there be any truth to that???????????
I used to be a chamber operator for a multi-lock chamber.
The doors had no locks or latches of any kind. The door was hinged to the inside, so interior pressure held the door closed.
We once tried pulling the door open from the inside. With two of us pulling we couldn't do it when the chamber was at 30 fsw, so we kept getting shallower and trying. We were able to force the door open at about 1 or 2 fsw.
So the first big hole in the story is opening the door.....let alone the slasher film blood splatter....
All the best, James
Kinda similar story involving pressure at depth and blood everywhere. On the show Mythbusters they did a myth that a Navy diver using SNUBA (a long hose that pumps air down to the diver) was down at around 300 feet when the hose came off the compressor and the one way valve was missing. He was literally sucked through the hose, they did the experiment and sure enough, there was so much pressure it almost instantly sucked a pig through a one inch hose.
Crazy stuff!
That doesn't make sense to me. Please explain. So basically a Navy diver is surface supplied, and his umbilical breaks from the compressor. Where did the suction occur? Am I missing something?
Ok, I just watched the Mythbusters. The video is completely bs. For a multitude of reasons. YouTube - Mythbusters - Compresed Diver *Gory*