An American National Standard. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Revision of ASME PVHO-1-2002. Date of Issuance: November 16, 2007. 174p. This Standard applies to all pressure vessels that enclose a human within its pressure boundary while under internal or external pressure exceeding a differential pressure of 2 psi. PVHOs include, but are not limited to, submersibles, diving bells, personnel transfer capsules; and decompression, recompression, hypobaric, and hyperbaric PVHOs.