Techniques for Diving Deeper than 1,500 feet.

Abstract

Chairman's Remarks ; SESSION I Operational Problems; Summary of General Conclusions; Naval Requirements for Underwater Activity - J. Vorosmarti; Commercial Requirements and Capabilities - D.H. Elliott; Future Manned Undersea Activity - T.E. Berghage; Prediction of Physiological Limits to Deep Diving and Extension of Physiological Tolerance - C.J. Lambertsen; Limits for both Open Water and Chamber Diving - X. Fructus; Discussion - C.E.G. Lundgren; SESSION II HPNS in Man: Potential Methods to Prevent the HPNS in Human Deep Diving. P.B. Bennett; High Pressure Nervous Syndrome in Man: An Account of French Experiments - R. Naquet and J.C. Rostain; Deep Diving: U.K. Experience. Z. Torok; Recent U.S. Navy Experience in Very Deep Saturation Diving. W. Spaur; Discussion - R.W. Brauer; SESSION III HPNS : Mechanisms and Potential Methods of Amelioration; High Pressure Neurological Syndrome - Fundamental Aspects - R.W. Brauer; The Amelioration of the HPNS - K.W. Miller; Pharmacological Aspects of the High Pressure Neurological Syndrome (HPNS) - M.J. Halsey and B. Wardley-Smith; Effects of Pressure on Nervous Transmission - J.J. KENDIG; Discussion - P.B. Bennett; SESSION IV Additional Environmental Limits: Physiological and Medical Monitoring of the Diver - C.E.G. Lundgren; Respiratory Problems at Depth - E.M. Camporesi and J. Salzano; A Chronic Hazard of Deep Diving: Bone Necrosis - D.N. Walder; Decompression and Therapy at Depth - T.E. Berghage; Discussion - C.J. Lambertsen; SESSION V; Clarification of Future Strategy: Discussion - E.B. Smith; APPENDIX Dives below 300 m