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  • Title: Factors in 171 navy diving decompression accidents occurring between 1960-1969.
    Author: Biersner RJ.
    Journal: Aviat Space Environ Med; 1975 Aug; 46(8):1069-73. PubMed ID: 1164342.
    Abstract:
    Comparisons were made between the incidence of specific factors in U.S. Navy decompression accidents and the incidence of these factors in routine (nonexperimental) U.S. Navy operational dives. It was found that decompression accidents are disproportionately high among a) air dives less than 140 ft which have bottom times of 30 min or less and air dives greater than 140 ft which have bottom times of more than 15 min, b) Divers First Class, c) older divers, and d) dives which do not involve work or divers which require heavy work. Repetitive dives have a lower decompression accident rate than expected. Decompression accidents were not disproportionately high for any category of body build. These results indicate that the present U.S. Navy decompression tables are extremely safe (5 decompression accidents/10,000 dives), and do not appear to require modification. Future decompression research may be directed toward analyzing the relationship of work and aging to physiological processes involved in decompression. In addition, the present findings should be cross-validated using more recent accident and operational diving data.
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