SubseaExamPrep

Calculators / Chambers and saturation

Chamber pressurisation and lock gas calculator

The gas needed to pressurise a chamber to depth, and the gas used each time a medical or equipment lock is run.

Chamber pressurisation and lock gas

Gas = volume x depth/10
METRIC

The formula: Gas = volume x depth/10. Change any box and the full working updates. For study only, never for dive planning.

Practise it the way the exam asks it

The IMCA ADS, BDS and LST papers ask this as a four-option question, with a calculator on screen. A free account gives you 15 practice questions for each exam, each with the worked answer and the document it comes from.

Start free All 33 calculators

More on chambers and saturation

Initial depth on the rich gasVent, blowdown and joining chambersJoining two chambersSaturation consumablesCO2 tubes and analysers