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BE CAREFUL WITH DECOMPRESSION SYNDROME

  The first of these risks of diving, which we discussed in a previous article, occurs at the time of the diver's ascent: the air you breathe is subjected to great pressure when you dive. That's why, when you go up, nitrogen, which is what oxygen mixes with, forms bubbles in your body. These nitrogen bubbles can pass into the blood (causing strokes), move from where they formed, or stay there. It happens as long as the rise is in a short period of time. To avoid this ailment, it is necessary to carefully respect the decompression stops and their duration. In the case of suffering from decompression syndrome, adequate medical attention will be necessary in a hyperbaric chamber, which reproduces the pressure conditions when submerged in water.
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A little history.



Since the beginning of time there seem to be signs that diving has been practiced as a formula to obtain food but also to have riches such as coral or pearls. This type of diving has always been free, without the need for any instrument. This type of diving is still practiced regularly in some tribes with the same objective, so much so that they have come to have such an adaptation to the environment that allows them to spend more than ten minutes apnea under water. This is the case of the Bajau, Indonesian nomads who manage to dive to depths for about 13 minutes at a depth of 70 metres.


In the second half of the 18th century, scuba diving began to develop and since then it has been evolving, gaining momentum in the first half of the 19th century, although the system quite limited mobility since the diver was connected to the surface with a hose. 

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