One of the big lessons when learning how to SCUBA dive is how to avoid decompression sickness. When the human body spends a prolonged amount of time at depth, nitrogen builds up in the blood. As the diver ascends to the surface, they need to perform either decompression or safety stops to allow the nitrogen to escape from the blood stream.
It made me think about the pressured situations we find ourselves in on land, and how we don’t have any universally agreed decompression stop.
Maybe we should?