Newfoundland is known for kitchen parties. They usually involve friendship, music and home cooking. We’ve transformed the kitchen into something even bigger. Dive team members are subjecting their bodies to scientific examination. Dr. Neal Pollock from DAN, assisted by Stefanie Martina will be gathering data for decompression stress studies. Today, divers were subjected to a battery of fitness testing. Quarters at the lodge are quite close and that meant getting skin fold and spirometry tests at the kitchen table and doing pushups on the floor in the midst of cameras, cooking and gear prep. There will be little privacy, but the results of this research could offer significant information for the divers themselves and for our general understanding of decompression stress under extreme dive profiles.
