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ok, prepend the following to the previous post on the mechanical
and biochemical gremlins of DCS. It had the misidentified quote characters
removed:

>
> dci is a biochemical not mechanical problem...
>

It's both. The following is from my book, due out sometime, from the 
section on decompression sickness: 

Mechanical Effects Of DCS
How do decompression bubbles hurt you? In general terms the 
primary effects of bubbles are mechanical. Bubbles compress blood 
and lymph vessels from the outside and obstruct from within. 
Vessels and adjacent tissue structures get squashed, even torn from 
bubbles forming near them. Decrease in blood supply from all this 
interference is called ischemia (pronounced ih-skee'-me-uh). Pain 
and loss of function follows ischemia. If you examine the word 
'ischemia' closely you can find the Greek word 'haima' meaning 
blood. Other well known words from this root are hemorrhage, 
hemophilia, hemoglobin, even hemorrhoid.

In serious cases of decompression injury, bubbles injure the spinal 
cord in several ways...

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