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Weddell seals, which can hold their breath for up to eighty minutes and dive to depths below 2,400 feet. The seals were also able to avoid decompression sickness by reflexively collapsing their alveoli, the small cavities that exchange gases in the lungs, at great depths.
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
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