<page_title> List of diving hazards and precautions </page_title> <section_title> Breathing gases at high ambient pressure </section_title> <table> <cell> Medium to long term exposure to high partial pressures (>c1.3 bar) of inert gas (usually N2 or He) in the breathing gas. <col_header> Hazard </col_header> </cell> <cell> Decompression sickness ("the bends"): Injury due to gas bubbles expanding in the tissues and causing damage, or gas bubbles in the arterial circulation causing emboli and cutting off blood supply to tissues downstream of the blockage. <col_header> Consequences </col_header> </cell> </table>
DCS is known as a diving disorder that affects divers having breathed gas that is at a higher pressure.