"Dave Appleby" <dave_appleby@yahoo.com> wrote in message

Interesting. But maybe they can get bent because the depths that they go to
are so much deeper than any SCUBA depth. It might be a whole new set of
rules down there.

I know somebody who swears that he was bent freediving. I suspect that he
was regular diving before this but all the same interesting.

Am I right in thinking that any microbubbles in the bloodstream will be
recompressed and have a chance to clump together to form a bubble that will
expand upon ascent?

Keith

Something that can hold enough oxygen in its tissues to
power that many tons of muscle on a hunting expedition
for lasting ever so long and eerso deep is going to have
problems several orders of magnitude more than a breath
hold diver.

Bone lesions I can believe as once the pressure is on
deep gas will transfer about the body and bones being
a long t/c compartment will be candidates for a hit
and on a fast ascent (you bet a whale can do a really
fast ascent if they overcooked it chasing dinner and
the alternative is drowned whale) anything is at risk.

nigelH

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/205/9/901/i

I knew I read something about penguins too...

CAS

Dave I read the title and thought you had advance knowledge of the rugby
results.

Steve.