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

摘要

Preliminary hearing-conservation guidance for occupational exposure to intensewaterborne 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.