PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF DIVERS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF RESISTANCE TO DECOMPRESSION DISEASE

Objective: to study the physiological and psychological characteristics of divers with different levels of resistance to decompression sickness. Materials and methods. The study involved 36 men; professional divers aged 21-37 years. Based on the echolocation method, after a standard supersaturation of the body with air nitrogen in a pressure chamber (air compression up to 0.4 MPa (30 m water) over 7 minutes, isopression 60 minutes, decompression 63 minutes), 8 people were unstable and 28 resistant to decompression gas formation. Results. For stable divers, the age and RRmin indicator of the method of variational pulsometry are statistically significantly lower than for unstable ones. Unstable have a statistically significantly higher level of development of spatial thinking and the level of reactive anxiety. Conclusion. Ways to further study resistance to decompression sickness in divers lie in the field of age-related physiology and physiology of stress (4 tables, bibliography: 15 refs).