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The Skin Squeeze Effect In Diving  by: Jakob Jelling Skin squeeze is one of the barotrauma problems which divers can suffer due to the pressure factors involved in the practice of the sport. This way, a barotrauma can be caused due to the differences between the pressure of the water and the surface pressure to which the diver's body is adequate and used to. Barotraumas include problems such as external, inner and middle ear squeeze, eye squeeze, skin squeeze, sinus squeeze and lung squeeze. While being into the water, a diver is in a heavier environment than when he is in the surface due to the fact that water is a denser medium than air. The relationship between the density of the environment, its pressure and the way it affects the human body are explained through several physic laws, among which we can specifically find Boyle's law, Dalton's law and Henry's law. These physic laws explain that there is a constant relationship among the volume and the pressure multiplication. This way, it explains that the way in which the deeper a diver goes into the water, the more pressure he will be exposed to. Therefore, whenever they wish to go deep into the water, divers should have this law in mind and take the precautions necessary to avoid the effects which this pressure increase can have on them. According to Boyle's law, while the pressure of the water increases as we go deeper the volume of the gases decrease. This way, when a diver goes deeper into the water, the air which might exist between his suit and his skin or into his mask would decrease and this could cause him to suffer a skin squeeze. This way, skin squeeze can happen as a consequence of a change in volume in the air enclosed against the diver's skin. Most of the times, when this happens at an area covered by the diving suit it is called suit squeeze and usually happens to divers who are wearing a dry diving suit and it becomes tight around a specific skin area due to the air volume reduction. About The Author Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.divepilot.com. Please visit his website to discover the world of diving! This article was posted on March 01, 2005 Read More Articles from the "Recreation and Sports" Category: Tips On Caring For Your Valentine's Day Flowers by Gerry Belvedere My Core Strength Is Just Fine Thank You, But My Golf Swing Needs Help! by Sean Cochran Whitewater Kayaks by Jakob Jelling Apparel And Equipment In Sports, Fitness And Recreation by Low Jeremy How To Stay Involved In Figure Skating by Danielle Rose Indian Cricket Is Going Through A Transition Phase by Ella Wilson Rainbow, Brown And Brook Trout by Ronald Moody Geocaching: A Great Way To Get Outdoors by Chuck Fitzgerald Countdown to Armegeddon by Gary Whittaker Not All Paintball Markers Are Made The Same! by Caroline Smith << Back to "Recreation And Sports" Index

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