Can somebody explain to me decompression sickness fue to nitrogen?

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Can somebody post some sources as well?

Answer 1

See the attached link, it's very comprehensive but understandable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompressi...

I'm a diver and have had a 'bend'. Mine happened as a result of diving all weekend and, although out of water for longer than the prescribed time, taking an internal flight in the UK on the Monday.

My symptoms were minor but I spent 2 sessions of 5.5 and 2.5 hrs in a hyperbaric chamber getting recompression therapy.

Answer 2

Nitrogen is slightly soluble in blood, and increasingly so at high pressure.  A diver will be exposed to high presure nitrogen while at depths, and the dissolved nitrogen will come out of solution when he surfaces.  The resulting bubbles can cause great pain as well as tissue damage (it's called "the bends"), and ascent must be gradual to permit the nitrogen to be excreted without bubbling.

Answer 3

you shouldn't fly in airplanes for 24 hours after scuba diving...

when you breathe underwater, the tank has compressed air and you are taking that into your lungs and body and it takes about 24 hours to  "dissolve...

if you do fly, these air pockets inside you expand and can cause you to feel pain and become ill.

it gets in the joints (I think).

and Nitrogen is a different form of air for deeper diving.. and if you acend from underwater too fast

the same things happen as if you were to get in a plane.