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A decompression chamber is a pressure vessel
Pressure vessel

A pressure vessel is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure different from the ambient pressure.The pressure differential is potentially dangerous and many fatal accidents have occurred in the history of their development and operation....
 used in surface supplied diving
Surface supplied diving

Surface supplied diving refers to diving activities using equipment supplied with breathing gas using an Umbilical cord#Other uses for the term "umbilical cord" from the surface, often from a diving support vessel but possibly, indirectly via a diving chamber....
 to allow the divers to complete their decompression stop
Decompression stop

A decompression stop is a period of time a SCUBA diving must spend at a constant depth in shallow water at the end of a dive to safely eliminate absorbed inert gases from the diver's body to avoid decompression sickness....
s at the end of a dive on the surface rather than underwater. This eliminates many of the risks of long decompressions underwater, in cold or dangerous conditions.

Often the terms "decompression chamber", "recompression chamber" and "hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber" are used interchangeably. The names reflect the different purposes that the chambers are designed for, rather than their capability.






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A decompression chamber is a pressure vessel
Pressure vessel

A pressure vessel is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure different from the ambient pressure.The pressure differential is potentially dangerous and many fatal accidents have occurred in the history of their development and operation....
 used in surface supplied diving
Surface supplied diving

Surface supplied diving refers to diving activities using equipment supplied with breathing gas using an Umbilical cord#Other uses for the term "umbilical cord" from the surface, often from a diving support vessel but possibly, indirectly via a diving chamber....
 to allow the divers to complete their decompression stop
Decompression stop

A decompression stop is a period of time a SCUBA diving must spend at a constant depth in shallow water at the end of a dive to safely eliminate absorbed inert gases from the diver's body to avoid decompression sickness....
s at the end of a dive on the surface rather than underwater. This eliminates many of the risks of long decompressions underwater, in cold or dangerous conditions.

Often the terms "decompression chamber", "recompression chamber" and "hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber" are used interchangeably. The names reflect the different purposes that the chambers are designed for, rather than their capability. Each is capable of operating in the others' role:
  • a recompression chamber
    Recompression chamber

    A recompression chamber is a pressure vessel used to treat divers suffering from certain diving disorders such as decompression sickness.Often the terms recompression chamber, decompression chamber, hyperbaric chamber, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber are used interchangeably....
     is used to treat divers suffering from certain diving disorders such as decompression sickness
    Decompression sickness

    'Decompression sickness' , 'the diver?s disease', 'the bends', 'caisson disease' is the name given to a variety of symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a decrease in the pressure around the body....
  • a hyperbaric oxygen therapy
    Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

    Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy , is the medical use of oxygen at a level higher than atmospheric pressure....
     chamber is used in a hospital
    Hospital

    A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
     or sporting context to treat patients whose condition might benefit from hyperbaric oxygen treatment, including divers.

Popular Culture


A decompression chamber is used in various films. Most notable was the movie Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill

Licence to Kill is the sixteenth spy film in the James Bond , and the second and last to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond....
 as Krest was decompressed and expanded to messy effect. Decompression chambers are also used in the game Unreal Tournament where players or bots would enter and enemies would push a button which decompressed them to a pulp.

In the Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. is an United States author, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War....
 novel Without Remorse
Without Remorse

Without Remorse is a Thriller novel published in 1993 by Tom Clancy and is a part of the "Ryanverse" series. While not the first novel of the series to be published, it is first in plot chronology....
, protagonist John Kelly
John Kelly

John Kelly or Jack Kelly may refer to:...
 uses a Navy-standard decompression chamber for extreme interrogation
Torture

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadism gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors M...
, with fatal results.

See also

  • Diving chamber
    Diving chamber

    A diving chamber or submersible chamber has two main functions:* as a simpler form of Submersible to take underwater divings underwater and to provide a temporary base and retrieval system in the depths;...
  • Byford Dolphin
    Byford Dolphin

    The Byford Dolphin is a semi-submersible Norway oil rig converted from a diving rig. It floats in the North Sea to find and drill petroleum deposits....
     (decompression accident)