CuriousRambler
Contributor
I was thinking the other day and I remember seeing a documentary on extreme mountaineering, like K2 and Everest level climbing. It was a long time ago, and a long time before I was into diving, so I don't remember how related the ailments the climbers were getting would be to DCS, but some of the climbers would come down with some type of high-altitude sickness. Again, I don't remember details AT ALL, but as part of their treatment they would put them into what was essentially a nylon recompression bag that they would inflate to increase the pressure/decrease the altitude effects on the body.
Obviously something like that wouldn't be capable of the extreme pressures to take a bent diver down to anything beyond a couple atmospheres, but if a diver came up bent from a dive, even recompressing the diver to 50 feet while you waited on a helicopter or rushed them to a real chamber would give them that much better odds of not sustaining any permanent injuries, wouldn't it? Does the dive industry already have some form of similar technology, or am I stumbling onto a possibly lucrative idea?
Obviously something like that wouldn't be capable of the extreme pressures to take a bent diver down to anything beyond a couple atmospheres, but if a diver came up bent from a dive, even recompressing the diver to 50 feet while you waited on a helicopter or rushed them to a real chamber would give them that much better odds of not sustaining any permanent injuries, wouldn't it? Does the dive industry already have some form of similar technology, or am I stumbling onto a possibly lucrative idea?