Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.05.2024
Airing out the healing process…after suffering a harrowing injury which threatened both his life and limb, Lt. Lyman Woollens, family medicine physician assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Urgent Care Clinic, has started to receive extensive rehabilitation treatment under the guidance of Navy divers and Navy Medicine undersea medicine using the Navy’s oldest certified dive chamber on......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.05.2024
Encapsulated and engaged…for those being treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy like Lt. Lyman Woollens to help recover from a serious injury in the Navy’s oldest certified dive chamber, affectionally known as ‘The Whale,’ located on Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, strict protocol always calls for someone – from the Navy dive team – to always be present in......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.05.2024
Treatment with a steady hand…The complex workings of the Navy’s oldest certified dive chamber, affectionally known as ‘The Whale,’ are manually controlled by the Navy diver team – such as Navy Dive 1st Class Jason Marshall - when being used for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Lt. Lyman Woollens is currently undergoing extensive rehabilitation treatment. “I’ve been involved on......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.05.2024
Compressed and composed…Lt. Lyman Woollens receives instructions from Navy divers before his initial use of the Navy’s oldest certified dive chamber, affectionally known as ‘The Whale,’ for hyperbaric oxygen therapy to improve his recuperation process on Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport. The Navy dive team simulates setting the chamber to a depth of 45 feet of sea water pressure......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.05.2024
Lt. Lyman Woollens, family medicine physician assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Urgent Care Clinic (right) receives instructions from Navy Diver 1st Class Andrew Turner before receiving his initial hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the Navy’s oldest certified dive chamber, affectionally known as ‘The Whale,’ located on Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy – a......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.16.2015
Levels good, vitals good, progress in treatment good...Cmdr. Juan Dapena, Submarine Group Nine Undersea Medical Officer works with Navy divers assigned to Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport Dive Locker to provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a Navy retiree who recently went through radiation treatment for oral cavity cancer that impacted his jaw area. The therapy helps to promote healing......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.16.2015
Navy divers assigned to Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport Dive Locker handle all duties and responsibilities of manually controlling the dive (recompression) chamber to an equivalent depth of 45 feet of sea water pressure with 100 percent oxygen impacting the patient's body tissues (Official Navy photos by Douglas H Stutz, NHB Public Affairs)....
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 12.16.2015
Under the watchful eye of Navy Diver 2nd Class Joseph Ziemba, inside tender responsible for safety, retired Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Robert Johnson receives hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help prevent complications from radiation treatment in the Navy's oldest certified dive chamber. The air pressure in the dive (recompression) chamber is increased higher than normal, thus simulating being......
