eli5: how do animals like whales not get decompression sickness?
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Yes, whales do get the bends. We know this from damage evident in whale skeletons that have washed ashore. However, because they are breathing only one lungful of air at a time rather than the compressed air that scuba divers breathe for long stretches of time, they don’t have a lot of problems, it’s a very mild case any time they get it, so they can survive.
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