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Assessment of fitness for recreational scuba diving in candidates with asthma: a pilot study
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2020 Background Asthma may be regarded as a contraindication to scuba diving.Purpose A clinical algorithm to assess fitness to dive among individuals with asthma was developed and tested prospectively in clinical practice.Study design Cohort study.Methods All
Amalie Ustrup +2 more
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Short- and long-term effects of diving on pulmonary function
European Respiratory Review, 2017 The diving environment provides a challenge to the lung, including exposure to high ambient pressure, altered gas characteristics and cardiovascular effects on the pulmonary circulation.
Kay Tetzlaff, Paul S. Thomas
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A Pilot Survey Investigating Naturoid Reefs as a Tool for Sustainable Marine Ecotourism
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Recreational SCUBA diving is currently a nature-based USD multibillion tourism industry across the globe. However, degradation of many recreational diving destinations all over the world due to “soft” ecotourists necessitates the adoption of innovative ...
Panayota Koulouri +2 more
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Sickle Cell Crisis Mimicking Severe Decompression Sickness in a Recreational SCUBA Diver
Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2016 SCUBA diving is an increasingly popular recreational sport across the globe and normally conducted by trained diving instructors. Increased commercialization, inadequate professional knowledge/training and poor compliance to the existing safety ...
C S Mohanty, S S Mohapatra, Rohit Verma
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Risk factors of decompression sickness in scuba diving
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2020 BackgroundRecreational diving with aqualung can be called an extreme sport because the divers are exposed to physical and psychological risks. A serious danger in diving is the very exposure to a change in pressure underwater, which every diver must deal
Oliwia Pińkowska +3 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 Decapods play a crucial role within the reef ecosystem and the development of scuba diving as a survey tool has allowed researchers the opportunity to study the decapod–reef relationship more comprehensively.
Bruno Welter Giraldes +2 more
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Severe immersion pulmonary edema in a novice elderly scuba diver after heavy alcohol intake
Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2021 Background There are no reports of immersion pulmonary edema induced by excessive alcohol intake. We describe the case of a novice scuba diver who developed apnea due to immersion pulmonary edema during scuba diving after heavy alcohol intake.
Yoshitaka Morimatsu +7 more
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Impacts of Artificial Reefs and Diving Tourism [PDF]
Turizam, 2013 Coral reefs are currently endangered throughout the world. One of the main activities responsible for this is scuba-diving. Scuba-diving on coral reefs was not problematic in the begging, but due to popularization of the new sport, more and more tourists
Sandra Jakšić +2 more
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VertigO, 2017 Being a growing recreational activity on many coasts in the world, scuba diving is mainly known thanks to studies conducted in the frame of marine protected areas (MPAs).
Samuel Robert, Théophile Plouvier
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Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil, 2021 Environmental interpretation seeks to reveal meanings to provoke personal connections between the public and the protected heritage. In the specific case of geological heritage, it determines and communicates the meaning of a geological and ...
Tatiane Ferrari do Vale +2 more
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