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 | 68k | Main Assembly Workshop - Cowan Transportable Recompression Chamber Systems during manufacture. | Courtesy of cowanmfg.com.au. | |
 | 42k | Interior view of Cowan Transportable Recompression Chamber - male NATO connection flange in foreground. | Courtesy of cowanmfg.com.au. | |
 | 328k | At sea aboard the amphibious transport dock ship Denver (LPD-9) on 19 Jun. 1997, Machinery Repairman 3rd Class Erin Telitz and Signalman 1st Class Joel Blea attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 (EOD Mob. Unit 3) talk with a "patient" inside 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. Exercise 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 # N-3149V-002 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jeff Viano, courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. | |
 | 88k | At sea aboard the amphibious transport dock ship Denver (LPD-9) 19 Jun. 1997, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Larry Eddingfield demonstrates patient care in a Transportable Recompression Chamber System (TRCS) during Exercise Kernel Blitz '97. | U.S. Navy photo # N-3149V-002 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jeff Viano, courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. | |
 | 47k | A U.S. Navy Sailor demonstrates the available space inside a Transportable Recompression Chamber System (TRCS) at Queensland, Australia, 1 Mar. 1997. 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. | U.S. Navy photo # N-7159P-010 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Class H. Wolfgang Porter, courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. | |
 | 217k | Navy divers aboard Grapple (ARS-53) prepare the transportable recompression chamber (TRCS) for service. The (TRCS) will be used aboard Grapple to treat diving emergencies during the recovery wreckage and victimes from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990. | U.S. Navy photo # N-9407M-507 by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Isaac D. Merriman, courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. | |
 | 103k | Lumut, Malaysia 19 Jul. 2001, Lt. Cmdr. Wanzaldi Abdul, from the Royal Malaysian Navy, looks as on Lt. Cmdr. Zaini Awangnik inspects a Transportable Recompression Chamber System (TRCS). Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One (MDSU-ONE) is conducting training with Royal Malaysian Navy divers during the seventh annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2001 exercise. CARAT, a series of bilateral exercises, takes place throughout the Western Pacific each summer. It aims to increase regional cooperation and promote interoperability with each participating country. The countries participating in this years CARAT 2001 are Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei. | U.S. Navy photo # N-9271Z-003 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Erin A. Zocco, courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. | |
 | 55k | U.S. Navy diver BM1(DSW/SW) Rod Smith shows Malaysian divers the U.S. Navy Transportable Recompression Chamber System (TRCS) with a built-in breathing system during CARAT cross-training. | U.S. Navy photo # N-9271Z-002 by PH1(AW/SW) Kevin H. Tierney, USN, courtesy of forum.apan-info.net. | |
 | 170k | Pacific Ocean, 16 July 2004 - Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Justin Culver, a Navy Diver assigned to Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One (MDSU-1), exits the Transportable Recompression Chamber System (TRCS), aboard USNS Sioux (T-ATF 171), after completing his decompression obligation during mixed gas diving salvage operations during exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2004. Sioux is one of the seven fleet ocean tugs operated by the Navy's Military Sealift Command. They are part of MSC's Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force operating in direct support of U.S. Navy fleets deployed around the world. RIMPAC is the largest international maritime exercise in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. This year's exercise includes seven participating nations; Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. RIMPAC is intended to enhance the tactical proficiency of participating units in a wide array of combined operations at sea, while enhancing stability in the Pacific Rim region. | U.S. Navy photo # N-6811L-291 by Photographer's Mate 1st Class David A. Levy, courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. Photo added 09/12/08. | |
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