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A new air decompression table has been developed for a dive to 40 m.s.w. for one hour, which employs a switch to a helium and oxygen mixture and oxygen during decompression. The safety of the table has been validated using two types of ultrasonic monitoring.
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James, P.B., Lafferty, C.F., Brubakk, A.O. (1991). A New Approach to Air Diving. In: SUBTECH ’91. Advances in Underwater Technology, Ocean Science and Offshore Engineering, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3544-3_24
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