U.S. Navy has decommissioned all its eight low-pressure chambers

Age has caught up with eight of the U.S. Navy’s low-pressure chambers and the sailing branch has decommissioned all of them while waiting for the new normobaric hypoxia chambers to be built.

By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Joseph C. Garza. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The old chambers, the first was commissioned back in 1947, can no longer be repaired and in the mean time, aviators will rely on the Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device for hypoxia training while waiting for the new chambers to come online.