@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00005271,
 author = {NASHIMOTO, Ichiro},
 journal = {南太平洋海域調査研究報告=Occasional papers},
 month = {2016-10-28},
 note = {Mankind has a long history of diving. It is said that Chinese dove for pearl oysters about 4,000 years ago. Diving is rigorous matter for terrestrial mankind. As the underwater environment has no air for breathing, high water pressure, low water temperature, and difficulties in communications with others. These conditions are hostile and life threatening
to divers, and based on this background, diving medicine needs to develop to find safe diving methods and proper treatment of diving's ill-effects. Just as space medicine, diving medicine
forms an important part of environmental medicine. Some of the leading topics and research problems of diving medicine follow.},
 pages = {1--3},
 title = {Diving Medicine},
 volume = {25},
 year = {}
}