Rescue.In November 2003, 40-year-old Panamanian civilian Jose Hernandez experienced decompression sickness decompression sickness, physiological disorder caused by a rapid decrease in atmospheric pressure, resulting in the release of nitrogen bubbles into the body tissues. It is also known as caisson disease, altitude sickness, and the bends. , commonly known as the "bends." while diving 350 miles off the coast of Costa Rica. An SH-60B Seahawk helicopter from the HSL-43 detachment deployed on board McCampbell (DDG DDG Guided Missile Destroyer DDG Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft DDG Deputy Director General DDG Drop Dead Gorgeous DDG Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft (German Society of Dermatologists) 85) flew to Rentz (FFG FFG Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (German: Austrian research promotion agency) FFG Flash Flood Guidance FFG Guided Missile Frigate FFG Fall from Grace (band) FFG Fast Frigates FFG Freeware Flight Group 49) to pick up the injured diver and then returned to McCampbell. Later, a P-3 Orion provided overhead coverage and communication relay for the helo as it then flew from McCampbell to a civilian hospital in Panama City, Fla., where the victim was treated in a decompression chamber decompression chamber n. A compartment in which atmospheric pressure can be gradually raised or lowered, used especially in readjusting divers or underwater workers to normal atmospheric pressure or in treating decompression sickness. . |
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