Relieving pressure

Usage examples of decompression.

I chanted it aloud as I filled both stoves with wood, pulled on a second shirt and pair of pants, added a sweater, zipped up the Snowmobile boots, put on the scarf and jacket and gloves and cap and stomped into the back hall like a space-suited astronaut entering the airlock, or a hardhat diver going into the decompression chamber.

He did not have time to consider the implications of a blow powerful enough to send a twelve-hundredton Privateer-class patrol ship tumbling like a pinwheel, nor the fact that the blow itself was the reaction from most of the Weasers air exhausting to space in explosive decompression.

I grabbed it, held on, surfaced, sucked in some lungfuls of that cold, salt, wonderful air and waited for the decompression pains to start, those sharply agonising twinges in the Joints of the limbs.

They bundled Kirk into the decompression chamber as though they were doing nothing more interesting than autoclaving a rack of test tubes.

But it showed no signs of the carbonization or twisted metal that would have resulted from a hull-rending decompression.

It was fit up by the flames as though it were a stage effect, but as he was on the point of firing, the tanker was obscured by a dancing curtain of yellow dust and the volley of cannon fire passed so close to Sean's head that his eardrums creaked and popped as though he were in a decompression chamber.

Norman awoke to see a brilliant shaft of light, streaming through the single porthole, shining down on the chemical toilet in the corner of the decompression chamber.

Sooner or later we'd have to go to the surface and that meant decompressing on the way up, the amount of decompression time depending on the depth attained and the length of time spent there.

The nearest decompression chamber was in Miami, so they chartered a plane and flew me there that same night.

And the second thing is that we have to link up with a decompression chamber on the surface.

Even if Clay was unhurt, there was a good chance he was going to get decompression sickness, the bends, and if he lived through that, he'd spend three or four days in the hyperbaric decompression chamber in Honolulu.

The Elmira anchored, and six young ultra-deep-sea divers struggled into wet suits in the ship's decompression chamber, where they had been slowly subjected to rising pressures for the past thirty hours.

They squirmed through the hatch into the submersible decompression chamber and dogged down the hatch behind them.

The bell rose to the surface, and the divers inside exchanged places with a team living in the decompression chamber.

Used to play it in the decompression chamber when I was working under the Hudson.