Edmonds C
Undersea Biomed Res. 1985 Sep;12(3):315-9.
An audiometric survey was performed on a group of professional abalone divers, all of whom had experienced a great deal of exposure to dysbaric conditions. The results of this survey revealed that, even allowing for the very liberal requirements of the Australian standards for divers, over 60% had an unacceptable sensorineural, high frequency deafness. In half of these cases it was unilateral, and half bilateral. Making allowance for age, over 70% had evidence of hearing loss to a degree considered by the National Acoustic Laboratories to be compensatable.
对一组职业鲍鱼潜水员进行了听力测试，他们都曾大量暴露于高压环境。该测试结果显示，即使考虑到澳大利亚潜水员标准非常宽松的要求，仍有超过60%的人患有不可接受的感音神经性高频听力损失。其中一半病例为单侧听力损失，另一半为双侧。考虑到年龄因素，超过70%的人有听力损失迹象，其程度被国家声学实验室认为是可补偿的。
