Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Don your wetsuit, grab your oxygen tank, and securely fasten your mask, because this week we’re going on our deepest dive yet. In this episode, we’re plumbing the depths of decompression sickness, aka the bends, to get a better handle on how gases and pressure can be so very deadly. We start out with a bit of Gases 101, examining how decompression sickness occurs and why it affects your body in the ways it does. Next, we explore the not-so-distant history of this disease, a history that includes far more tales of bridge engineering than it does of SCUBA diving (but just as fascinating). Finally, we rise to the surface, but not too quickly, with a look at decompression sickness around the world today. Tune in to hear the highs, the lows, and everything in between of this industrial era disease, and feel free to leave your decompression schedule at home.

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0:00.0	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:04.4	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:06.4	Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.
0:09.0	A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases
0:13.6	in an effort to uncover the truth.
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0:22.0	My name is April and this is my story on when I got bent.
0:27.8	So I discovered scuba diving almost a dozen years ago.
0:31.5	Like anyone else who first gets into the sport, I first started off by taking an initial
0:36.1	open water class.
0:38.0	Immediately I fell in love.
0:40.6	I was completely hooked and diving has been a huge passion in part of my life ever since.
0:46.2	After taking open water, I went on to train and gain additional further certifications
0:50.4	such as advanced dry suit, master, wreck, rescue, dive master, and on and on until I ultimately
0:57.6	gain my certification to be an assistant instructor.
1:01.5	I love wreck diving and Northeast wreck diving has been an ultimate for me.
1:07.2	After spending some time diving off of some of the local boats in the Long Island area,
1:11.4	I started working as crew on one of them.
1:14.2	And over the years, I've on up crewing on a few different boats, with my current and
1:18.0	most recent being a boat in New Jersey for the last seven years.
1:22.8	Being able to spend my weekends out on a boat out in the middle of the Atlantic with
1:26.6	the fabulous bunch of people, diving these amazing shipwrecks that are scattered all throughout
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