One of the many things I spend time thinking of to avoid my day job, but, do mammals suffer DCS (the bends or Nitrogen micro bubbling), and if not, why not??
Those beached whales that seem to pop up once in a while, or even pods of Dolphins. Once blamed solely on sonar, now
sonar may bring on DCS by scaring deep mammals into surfacing too quickly, well, read:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sonar 'may cause whale deaths'
VERY GOOD:
Deep-Diving Whales Suffer From Bends | LiveScience
News in Science - Giving whales and dolphins 'the bends' - 17/12/2001