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Offgassing
I was wondering about some facets of offgassing, in a rather hypothetical way. I do that sometimes, wonder...
I was hoping that someone could explain, or direct me to an explaination (fit for a layman, but not a laim-man: I can deal with small amounts of clearly presented scientific-type information) of the process of offloading nitrogen. Specifically, considering the following hypothetical case:
A diver with some non-major bubble formation who does not take recompression treatment. Would the bubbles never re-enter solution without the pressurization? Would this diver carry the bubbles around (provided they didn't render said diver immobile with pain or jump up into his cartoid artery or something) forever/until his next dive, or would he eventually, somehow, release the nitrogen? Related: how about sub-clinical DCS? Perhaps that's what I was referring to in the above example, or does sub-clinical DCS only refer to lack of bubbles or bubbles of a certain size?
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