Air Decompression Monitors
The bends are a diver’s worst nightmare. Every diver knows the trouble you can get into by ascending from a deep depth to rapidly. The bends result from nitrogen being released in the blood stream. When you ascend too quickly from depth, your body cannot adjust and the release of nitrogen in the blood can cause serious injury and many times death if they don’t get into a decompression chamber quickly.
Divers who are coming up from deep depths need to make slow accessions and stop for decompression stops along the way. These stops allow the body to eliminate the inert gas that has been added into the blood from being in deeper depths. These decompression stops are figured out by using decompression tables so the diver knows what depth and for how long each staged stop should be. Depending on the depth, if it’s not extremely deep the diver can decompress by slowing ascending to the surface without stopping.
With today’s technology, divers now can use what amounts to a mini under water computer and they are in the form of an air decompression monitor that the diver wears. These monitors will measure the depth, pressure, and then figure out where and when the decompression stops need to be made. Depending on how much you want to spend, these little mini computers can get quite advanced and give you a lot of information.
Decompression monitors of today can have visual and or sound decompression alerts to let you know when you need to stop. Some of them come with automated accent monitors that will sense when you’re starting to rise and then activate to let you know when you need to stop based on the depth of the water you were in when you started the assent.
These monitors are a critical piece of diving equipment that no scuba diver should be without. While they are not cheap, they more than make for their cost in the value they provide that could possibly save someone’s life.
We’ve put together this site to talk about some the various models as well as provide you sources where you can them at discounted prices.
Thanks for visiting and have a good dive!
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