Eli5 how does decompression illness kill you?

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Eli5 how does decompression illness kill you?

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Its already mostly explained, but the short and simple version… gas comes out of solution in the water in your body. Those form bubbles which basically start tearing your body tissues apart, blocking capillaries and starving cells of oxygen.

It is excruciatingly painful and causes a lot of damage.