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I DOUBT if whales avoid caisson disease—the usual consequence of deep diving—by filling their lungs with sea-water as Dr. J. Argyll Campbell suggests 1. Where whales abound, the temperature of the ...

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PROF. KROGH'S interesting comments 1 on the physiology of the blue whale and how it escapes caisson disease stimulate further speculation. Capt. Damant 2 suggested that at ten atmosphere's pressure ...