When exhaling underwater, why do multiple bubbles come out and not a big one?

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When exhaling underwater, why do multiple bubbles come out and not a big one?

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Because the air that you exhale starts rising up to the surface right away, and doesn’t wait for you to “inflate” the bubble to make it bigger. If you could swim upwards as fast as the air bubbles, you could theoretically inflate a big bubble like a balloon, while it rises up to the surface.

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