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Diving disorders are medical conditions that arise from underwater diving, and are caused by breathing gas at the high pressures encountered at depth. The signs and symptoms may be observed during a dive, on surfacing, or up to several hours after. The principal conditions encountered are decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism); nitrogen narcosis; high-pressure nervous syndrome; oxygen toxicity; and pulmonary barotrauma (burst lung). (more ...)