why do marine mammals not die of infection more often?

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You see all the time images of whales and seals and other marine mammals with injuries due to boats and stuff that have healed. There was even that picture of that whale with a fin injury that was photographed 30 years later or something like that. I would think being submerged in dirty water would make those wounds dangerously infected though. Are humans just super fragile mammals and the rest can handle wounds much better?

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> I would think being submerged in dirty water would make those wounds dangerously infected though.

What makes you think the water is dirty?

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