After the defeat of France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Austria was left out of the formation of a new German Empire, although in the following decades its politics, and its foreign policy, increasingly converged with those of the Prussian-led Empire.
Izpostavljenost kisiku s parcialnim tlakom višjim od 160 kPa (približno 1,6 atm) lahko povzroči krče, ki so za potapljača običajno usodni.