Following a deep dive in water, humans can experience severe pains upon returning to the surface too quickly, and the resulting
body injury may cause unconsciousness and death. Aches are so severe in some cases, commonly in the joints, that divers
bend over in agony. Hence, the name, the bends. However, the more common name for this condition is decompression
sickness, meaning that the sickness results from decreasing pressure.
Divers experience decreasing pressure upon ascent to the surface of the water. …
