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What is "decompression chamber"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
decompression chamber
noun
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▪ As with the basket, divers are recovered from the water to the surface, where they transfer to the decompression chamber.
▪ Once the inner door is closed and sealed, the bell is recovered to the surface and locked on to a decompression chamber.
▪ This surface interval between leaving the bell and entering the decompression chamber, became a point of contention within the medical profession.

Usage examples of "decompression chamber".

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.