14 hour deco campout on the space station

[DandyDon]

Dr.Deco has a lot of experience with aviation, astronauts, and off-gassing. These guys have to do theirs in advance of their non-dive, and I thot it interesting enough to share...

Excerpting from Shuttle astronauts hold pre-spacewalk 'campout' - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Discovery astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew are scheduled for a six-hour spacewalk outside the international space station Monday.
The team prepared by holding a 14-hour "campout" in the station's Quest airlock.
"The airlock's atmospheric pressure will be lowered to help purge nitrogen from Bowen and Drew's bloodstreams, protecting them from 'the bends' when they leave the airlock for the vacuum of space," a statement on NASA's website said.

 

[cudachaser]

Yeah, the shuttle and ISS operate with 14.7 psi air, the suits operate with 5 psi pure O2

Joe