Pacific White-sided Dolphins (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Pacific White-sided Dolphins

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Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals like these Pacific white-sided dolphins can get the bends--the same painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness that strikes scuba divers who surface too quickly.

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Photo by Lance Wills, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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