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Originally Posted by efattah
What a dumb article! The article claims the previous 'record' was 4000ft (1219m) by the sperm whale. In fact, even elephant seals have gone over 1800m, and sperm whales have done 3200m. The 1899m 'record' isn't even close to the real record!
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One of the articles mentioned a clarification, the beaked whale was tracked "regularly" diving to this great depth, while the sperm whale has only been determined to dive extremely deep "intermittently".
I'm not saying this is true, just that I read it in an article.
DDeden