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| has gloss | eng: A diving chamber or submersible chamber has two main functions: * as a simpler form of submersible vessel to take divers underwater and to provide a temporary base and retrieval system in the depths; * as a land or ship-based hyperbaric chamber to artificially reproduce the hyperbaric conditions under the sea (pressures above normal atmospheric pressure) for diving-related and non-diving medical applications (see Hyperbaric medicine). |
| lexicalization | eng: diving chamber |
| instance of | e/Pressure vessel |
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| media:img | Early diving recompression chamber at Broome, Western Australia.jpg |
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