saturation diving

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saturation diving

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) a method of diving in which divers live in a complex of decompression chambers for up to 28 days, going to work via a diving bell, and only decompressing at the end of the period. Helium is substituted for nitrogen in the air supply to avoid the narcotic effects of nitrogen

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