The Method Section: Decompression Sickness
00:00 – Intro
01:13 – Apology
04:01 – What is the bends?
07:47 – The bends in breath hold divers
08:55 – How are knowledge developed
12:27 – Important literature
15:48 – Why this is so important
19:48 – Outro and ending
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Papers mentioned in the show (in order of mention):
- Gas-bubble lesions in stranded cetaceans (Jepson et al., 2003)
- Deadly acute Decompression Sickness in Risso’s dolphins (Fernandez et al., 2005)
- Beaked whales respond to simulated and actual navy sonar. (Tyack et al., 2011)
- Bubbles in live-stranded dolphins (Dennison et al., 2011)
- Pulmonary ventilation–perfusion mismatch: a novel hypothesis for how diving vertebrates may avoid the bends (Garcia Parraga et al., 2018)
Episode Description
Welcome back to The Method Section! Tom returns with his deep dive series into scientific discussions! This week he is talking about decompression sickness, a well-studied and understood phenomenon in human scuba divers but something thought impossible for the diving animals of our world. Recent studies however are turning that view on its head and here you can find out how that’s happening and why that’s important! Stay tuned to the Method Section!
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