Eli5 how does decompression illness kill you?

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Eli5 how does decompression illness kill you?

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Well, decompression is the opposite of compression, so pushing outward rather than squeezing inward. So your body can expand only so far before it will explode. However, the little gas bubbles and liquids inside you will explode or go where it shouldn’t long before your bones and meat will.