NAME: KYLIE OBMINA 10 – MULBERRY

4 thQUARTER / MODULE 2

TRANSFER (CRITICAL THINKING)

Scuba diving, which triggers "the bends" or decompression

sickness, is linked to gas law. According to popular belief, when
pressure rises, volume falls, and vice versa. When scuba diving,
pressure rises as you go deeper, and the volume change in gas-
filled spaces and organs within your body causes distortion and
damage to surrounding tissues. As a result, in my opinion,
decompression sickness, or "the bends," is more closely linked to
Henry's Law than to Charles' Law, which states that when a gas is
pressurized, more gas will dissolve in a liquid. When a diver
descends, body tissue absorbs nitrogen gas quicker than when
ascending to the suction cup because of the water pressure.

Depending on the location of the bubbles, different body parts of

the diver may be affected. This type of pain can be dangerous as
a result of the pain or blocking blood flow, it disables the
divers to dive freely. The solubility of the gases in the blood
stream of the diver increases as pressure rises. I carried out
research to understand how "the turns" are affected by divers and
how this is associated with any gas legislation, and I learned
that the more pressure on a gas, the more gas can be dissolved
into a liquid. The more gasses disintegrate into our body
tissues, the more people dive and the pressure rises. The more
deep the dive, the greater the pressure and the more gas you can
dissipate.

It also claimed that the volume of a gas that will dissolve in a

liquid at a given temperature is nearly proportional to that
gas's partial pressure. As they rise to the surface, the bubbles
get larger. Nitrogen bubbles in our tissue can grow so large that
they obstruct circulation and cause decompression sickness, also
known as the bends. They can wreak havoc on joints, nerves, skin,
and fat, as well as cut off blood flow to vital organs. The bens
can be a life-threatening or even fatal illness. Divers must
ascend slowly enough to allow nitrogen to escape from the
tissues.