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    DIVE COMPUTERS

    Sep 09, 2019 3 minutes

    Way back in 1670, Irish scientist Robert Boyle showed through experimentation the inextricable links between pressure, volume and temperature. He went so far as to demonstrate that changes in ambient pressure could lead to the formation of bubbles in living tissue. These remarkable early achievements would not truly be appreciated for 200 years as the phenomenon behind major threats such as decompression sickness, embolisms, and pneumothoraces (collapsed lung) in diving. Boyle’s Law would be universally accepted in all of science, and today, still forms the foundation of the world’s most sophisticated dive computers, keeping us all much safer than

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