Thread: Packing = barotrauma?
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Old January 19th, 2006
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Re: Packing = barotrauma?
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Batorauma can happen to any part of you body that is pressurised with air,
Most likely places are Lungs, Chest Cavity, Sinuses, Ears etc, it is simply the expanding air not being released naturaly.

As i understand you can get a Barotruma injury from Packing.

If you pack and dive deap to the point where all the air in you lungs is compressed, as you ascend the expanding air in your lungs can get trapped in pockets in your lungs.
This is due to you lungs being squeezed together at depth and not expanding
correctly or sticking together in patches and the expanding air will cause localised Barotrauma.

Sebastion Murat or Eric will be able to explain in more but im hope i have explained the basic princable

Crusty
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