how can whales dive so quickly without facing problems
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whales and seals rely on large oxygen stores in their blood and muscle. Several adaptations enable this.
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Beaked whales can dive 2,000 metres below the ocean's surface. Why and how do they do it?
Around 2,000 metres below the surface, the water is freezing, black and seemingly impenetrable.
No light reaches the murky depths, and no human could survive the crushing pressure from the water above. It is easier for a person to exist in space than it is to explore the ocean floor at such depths.
But one group of mammals can swim through the heavy darkness: beaked whales.
Despite the extreme conditions, these whales manage to hunt two kilometres deep, surviving on a single breath for near to an hour, many times each day.
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