Scuba Diving question regarding pressure?
You are wearing scuba gear and swimming under water at a depth of 66.0 ft. You are breathing air at 1.50 atm and your lung volume is 10.0 L. Your scuba gauge indicates that your air supply is low so, to conserve air, you make a terrible and fatal mistake: you hold your breath while you surface. What happens to your lungs?
Consider these questions in order to answer that question: What does Boyle’s Law say about what happens to gases when pressure is reduced? How would that affect a flexible closed container?
By the way, the number given for gas pressure at depth (1.5 atm) does not seem to jibe with the depth (66 ft).
Consider these questions in order to answer that question: What does Boyle’s Law say about what happens to gases when pressure is reduced? How would that affect a flexible closed container?
By the way, the number given for gas pressure at depth (1.5 atm) does not seem to jibe with the depth (66 ft).
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NAUI Scuba Instructor
you could rupture your lungs
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POP!!!!!
Not a real good idea
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They over expand and usually rupture. In theory it takes only 2 feet seawater, to rupture your lungs. There are several other life threating medical conditions you could suffer including getting "Bent" the Bends or Cassion’s Disease. Once you rupture a lung, the air enters the Chest cavity compressing the lung on each breath. It can result in Cardiac Tamponade, or simply shoot a bit of compressed air into your circulatory system and stop your heart.
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