SciShow | Why Don't Marine Animals Get "The Bends"?

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SciShow: "The bends" is one of the biggest risks that humans have to deal with when diving, but why don't marine animals, which are diving all the time, get them? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/13/2030 https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/articles/Decompression_Illness_What_Is_It_and_What_Is_The_Treatment http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/10/1761 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0482 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.2088 http://jeb.biologists.org/content/202/20/2819 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30158447?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320506326_Deadly_acute_Decompression_Sickness_in_Risso%27s_dolphins http://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6138/1234192 http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/14/2180 Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dark-blue-ocean-surface-seen-from-underwater-gm908062194-250177304 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sea-lion-underwater-looking-at-you-gm477443999-35686516 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mother-song-gm958303054-261673941 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/sea-turtle-swimming-in-ocean-zea-6yj https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/walruses-swim-under-water-in-the-zoo-gm994519144-269307579 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-turtles-swim-in-an-aquarium-of-the-zoo-gm947892302-258805212
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