Why Don’t Marine Animals Get “The Bends”?

Why Don’t Marine Animals Get “The Bends”?

Posted April 2, 2019

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“The bends” is one of the biggest risks that humans have to deal with when diving, but why don’t marine animals, which are diving all the time, get them?

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Sources:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/13/2030
https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/articles/Decompression_Illness_What_Is_It_and_What_Is_The_Treatment
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/10/1761
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0482
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.2088
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/202/20/2819
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30158447?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320506326_Deadly_acute_Decompression_Sickness_in_Rissos_dolphins
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6138/1234192
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/14/2180

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https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dark-blue-ocean-surface-seen-from-underwater-gm908062194-250177304
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sea-lion-underwater-looking-at-you-gm477443999-35686516
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mother-song-gm958303054-261673941
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/sea-turtle-swimming-in-ocean-zea-6yj
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https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-turtles-swim-in-an-aquarium-of-the-zoo-gm947892302-258805212

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