Gardette B, Delauze H G
Bull Acad Natl Med. 1996 May;180(5):975-83.
In France, diving activities are practised by a large number of people, included recreational or sport divers, commercial and military divers. Different diving technics are used, depending on depth and duration of underwater interventions: human intervention under pressure (diving), one atmosphere submarine, remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The diver used specific equipment and procedures with air, heliox (oxygen -helium), hydrox (oxygen-hydrogen) or hydreliox (oxygen-hydrogen-helium) breathing gas mixtures; and for decompression, specific tables adapted to gas mixtures and underwater time exposures. In 1988, six Comex and French Navy divers worked at a record depth of 534 msw with hydreliox and in 1992 a world record onshore dive at 701 msw was performed by Comex in Marseille. These dives showed the efficiency of hydrogen diving at very deep depth. Among a lot of submarines built for undersea works, the latest in the range of Comex's innovative submarines, the "Remora 2000" combines the functions and instrumentation of an oceanographic subsea vessel with eye catching design of a recreational submarine. Now, ROV's replace more and more the diver on oil subsea offshore fields.
在法国，大量人员参与潜水活动，包括休闲或运动潜水者、商业潜水员和军事潜水员。根据水下作业的深度和时长，会采用不同的潜水技术：压力下的人工干预（潜水）、常压潜水器、遥控潜水器（ROV）。潜水员使用配备空气、氦氧混合气（氧气 - 氦气）、氢氧混合气（氧气 - 氢气）或氢氦氧混合气（氧气 - 氢气 - 氦气）的特定设备和程序；并且在减压方面，使用适用于气体混合物和水下暴露时间的特定表格。1988年，6名科美公司（Comex）潜水员和法国海军潜水员使用氢氦氧混合气在534米海水深度创造了纪录，1992年，科美公司在马赛进行了一次701米海水深度的陆上潜水世界纪录。这些潜水展示了超深深度氢气潜水的效率。在众多为海底作业建造的潜艇中，科美公司创新潜艇系列中的最新款“Remora 2000 ”将海洋学海底船只的功能和仪器与休闲潜艇引人注目的设计相结合。如今，在海上石油海底作业领域，遥控潜水器越来越多地取代了潜水员。
