How do marine mammals avoid the bends? Study offers new … – Science Daily April 26, 2018 Scuba Diving Science Daily How do marine mammals avoid the bends? Study offers new …~ ATAGEND Science Daily Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals can get the bends — the same painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness that strikes scuba divers who surface too quickly. A new examine offers a hypothesis of how marine mammals generally …