Abstract
To the Editor: —One omission from the excellent remarks on medical aspects of SCUBA diving by Drs. Salzman and Jung in the Oct. 27 issue ofThe Journal( 182 :34) was underscored by the sentence: By using compressed air a diver can descend without too much danger to a depth of 125 feet. The omission, of course, is discussion of decompression sickness or the bends. Diving to 125 ft and surfacing without decompression is limited to 10 min of according to Navy diving tables. Repetitive diving reduces this safe bottom time to even briefer periods. During the past 2 yr, 23 civilian sport SCUBA divers have been treated for decompression sickness in the recompression-decompression chambers of the submarine base at Pearl Harbor. Next to drowning, this disease is the most common serious misfortune encountered in diving. It can be prevented by informing SCUBA divers of the limitations of
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