TABLE 2.

Red cells, hematocrit, leukocyte, platelet counts and liver function indicators.

	Pre dive mean	SE	Post dive mean	SE	p-value
Leucocytes × 103	7.59	0.28	8.02	0.30	0.006
Platelets × 105	2.58	0.10	2.53	0.09	0.026
Red cells (abs)	5.26	0.0001	5.20	0.09	0.032
Hemoglobin (abs)	15.50	0.0002	15.29	0.24	0.002
Hematocrit (abs)	45.01	0.0007	44.52	0.67	0.068
AST	22.12	2.21	22.96	2.34	0.154
ALT	38.35	6.16	38.73	6.17	0.597