eli5: how do animals like whales not get decompression sickness?

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eli5: how do animals like whales not get decompression sickness?

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Whales don’t breath compressed air. Whales breath normal atmospheric pressures air and bring that down with them to the depths. Therefore when they rise the air is not expanding within them like it would in someone who’s been breathing compressed gases.

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