Keywords: US Navy 970618-N-3149V-002 Transportable Recompression Chamber System.jpg en At sea aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver LPD 9 Jun 18 1997 -- Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Larry Eddingfield demonstrates patient care in a Transportable Recompression Chamber System TRCS during Exercise Kernel Blitz '97 These devices are used on divers who are brought to the surface too quickly for the body to properly decompress The chamber recompresses the diver to a safe depth and then slowly recompresses to normal pressure Kernel Blitz 97 was an exercise near the Southern California coast designed to train U S Sailors and Marines and Canadian and Australian troops in amphibious operations U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jeff Viano RELEASED 1997-06-18 970618-N-3149V-002 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 2101 U S Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jeff Viano PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Denver LPD-9 Decompression chambers Hospital Corpsman Kernel Blitz 1997 Transfer under pressure Therapeutic recompression |