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Diving chamber
Hyperbaric pressure vessel for human occupation used in diving operations / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Hyperbaric chamber" redirects here. Not to be confused with hypobaric chamber or hyperbaric medicine.
A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than ambient pressure, a pressurised gas system to control the internal pressure, and a supply of breathing gas for the occupants.
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There are two main functions for diving chambers:
- as a simple form of submersible vessel to transport divers underwater and to provide a temporary base and retrieval system in the depths;
- as a land, ship or offshore platform-based hyperbaric chamber or system, to artificially reproduce the hyperbaric conditions under the sea. Internal pressures above normal atmospheric pressure are provided for diving-related applications such as saturation diving and diver decompression, and non-diving medical applications such as hyperbaric medicine. Also known as a Pressure vessel for human occupancy, or PVHO. The engineering safety design code is ASME PVHO-1.[1]