- Torricellian chamber
In
cave diving , a Torricellian chamber is a cave chamber full of water at less thanatmospheric pressure . It happens when the water level drops and there is no way for air to get into the chamber. In theory it could risk decompression sickness, similarly to flying after diving. In a Torricellian chamber the diver's depth gauge is unlikely to show the truth, as all or most diver's depth gauges are not designed to show depths less than zero.The chambers are named after
Evangelista Torricelli , inventor of thebarometer .External links
*http://www.speleogenesis.info/glossary/glossary_by_letter.php?Authors=t (scroll down to alphabetical order)
*http://genet-server.ibtm.tuwien.ac.at/speleo/pdf/glossary_02_T.pdf (scroll down to alphabetical order)
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