This decompression chamber is one of the 6 that exist in Chile within the private sector and it responds to the highest standards of security required by both professional divers and the companies that need Oxxean’s services.

The ability to move to any point between the regions of Los Lagos and Magallanes, is the characteristic of the mobile hyperbaric chamber of Oxxean´s Maritime Works Division, unique in the company’s operating area and one of the 6 that exist throughout the country, belonging to private firms.

This new decompression chamber can be operating one day in Puerto Chacabuco, Aysén and the next day in Puerto Natales since, due to its compact size, it can be moved easily and quickly by truck or boat from one place to another. This chamber fulfills a very important function for assisted diving in operations at great depths.

The equipment is fundamental for the services provided by Oxxean and provides the highest safety standards for the company’s workers. It also gives our customers the peace of mind that they will get a highly professional service with minimized operational risks.

The head of Oxxean’s Underwater Inspection and Marine Rescue Department points out that the decompression chamber «also gives us the possibility of working at depths of over 40 or 50 meters, with assisted diving and with greater safety throughout the operation. We are available 24/7 in case of an emergency, and with the equipment ready to carry out these types of operations throughout the country, which is undoubtedly an enormous advantage to provide different companies with comprehensive services of the highest level».

Hyperbaric Treatment

Hyperbaric medicine is used to treat various diseases, but in the field of diving it´s used especially in decompression. Patients placed in this pressurized environment receive more oxygen through an inhaler. For divers, the increased pressure reduces the size of gas bubbles in the body and the massive influx of oxygen facilitates their evacuation. This treatment includes three phases, compression, sea bottom pressure and decompression.

The diver remains for a certain time inside the chamber while the staff increases the pressure in order to reproduce the conditions of the dive performed and achieve the reduction of the size of the harmful macro-bubbles to convert them into micro-bubbles and then, very gradually, reduce the pressure and thus allow the free circulation of blood throughout the vascular system.

Simultaneously the patient is given oxygen to hyperoxygenate the tissues and facilitate the elimination of nitrogen.

Hyperbaric treatments carried out in time are usually very effective and allow quick and complete recoveries, and they can save a diver’s life.