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JonAustin:With little or no air in their lungs, there's nothing to compress. Therefore, there is no increased partial pressure. Therefore there is no nitrogen dissolution. Therefore there can be no nitrogen coming out of solution. Therefore there is no DCS or arterial gas embolism.
They noticed that many of the bones contained lesions and pits, indicating the whales may have suffered mild, but chronic, decompression sickness over the course of their lives.
Diver0001:What I recall is that the incident occured immediately after a test of that big-asss low frequency sonar. The test involved several ships and I don't remember the location but it might have been the Bahama's. If memory serves *no* whales were spotted in the entire region for a period of weeks or possibly months after the incident, leading to speculation that they had fled and the Navy admitted it might have had something to do with the sonar because a number (maybe all) of the whales were bleeding from their eyes and had serious internal trauma, possibly to the ears (or whatever it is that whales have). I think it was in 1999 but it might have been earlier. Try 1998-2001.
Is that enough to go on?
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MALTA_DIVER:OK this is getting good!!
Could this pitting of bones just be old age? Gout can do the same thing.
archman:Dang pilot whales...