Medicine & TechnologyBecause the diving bell was detached before the chamber door was closed, four saturation divers instantly met their morbid death. Read to learn more.
Researchers from the University of St. Andrews found that elite freedivers have brain oxygen levels even lower than seals during their deepest dives at depths of 107 meters.
When a whale washes ashore, researchers and government agencies are usually the first on scene to assess the causes of death. However, when a rare beaked whale washed ashore in Australia earlier this week, Tuesday Oct. 14, researchers were eager to get to the scene for an entirely different reason — the opportunity to learn something about a deep diving mammal we know so little about.