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| Sea water and air make metal rust. |
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Oil platforms need to be repaired because of rust, and a lot of this work has to be done by divers. Their work is quite dangerous because they sometimes have to dive down very deep.
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Divers wear special suits to protect them against the high pressures.
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| A diver inspecting the leg of an oil platform. |
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| To make sure they don't get the bends, divers spend up to 10 days in a special chamber called a decompression chamber. |
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Going down is easy. But if divers come back up to the surface too quickly they might get the bends. This can cause pain, illness or even death.
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