June 2012    Download the Entire Issue (PDF)

Vol. 27, No. 6   What's this?

Palau’s Chamber is Working Again, But Not Full-Time

from the June, 2012 issue of Undercurrent  

Subscriber Content Preview
Only active subscribers can view the whole article

What's the deal with Palau's hyperbaric chamber, reader Bob Kuhn (Palatine, IL) asked us. "I was at Palau recently and heard the chamber there has not worked in some time. Why? There are hundreds of divers coming here, but they have to go to Guam. I asked two divemasters at Sam's Tours and got two totally different answers. The first was that no one is trained, it's all private funding, and the dive shops don't communicate and work together well. The second was that there are actually two chambers, but one is broken and the doctor does not know how to operate the other one. My wife also sent an email to the hospital's information email address listed on Sam's website three days ago without a reply from the hospital. What's the real reason for a major dive destination not to have a working chamber?"...