Development of a General Hearing Conservation Standard for Diving Operations: Experiment I, Comparison of Temporary Auditory Threshold Shifts Induced by Intense Tone in Air and Water.

Abstract

Preliminary hearing-conservation guidance for occupational exposure to intense waterborne sound has been developed but little supporting experimental evidence has been offered. This paper describes two attempts to experimentally determine the auditory hazard to SCUBA divers exposed to intense noise in water. This paper attempts to develop a data base upon which to establish hearing-conservation standards for Navy divers exposed to waterborne noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1996
Accession Number
ADA322670

Entities

People

  • Christopher Steevens
  • Frances Baran
  • Paul F. Smith
  • Robert Sylvester

Organizations

  • Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Classification
  • Communication Systems
  • Databases
  • Divers
  • Diving
  • Diving Operations
  • Ear
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Analyzers
  • Security
  • Sound Pressure
  • Standards
  • Submarine Bases
  • Test Equipment
  • Transducers
  • Waterborne

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Materials Science
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.