U.S. Navy divers do many jobs — including deep-sea salvage, underwater rescue and explosive ordnance recovery.
To enhance the safety and capabilities of Navy divers, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) partnered with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to develop the Deep Sea Expeditionary No-Decompression (DSEND) dive suit.
The goal is to enable divers to work deeper and for longer periods of time — and reduce the risk of decompression sickness, a potentially deadly condition where the inert gas dissolved in the blood and tissues by high pressure forms bubbles as that pressure decreases.
In addition to ONR and NAVSEA, DSEND’s development has involved partners such as Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...
