maladie des caissons

Je dirais un barotraumatisme. Vous savez, la maladie des caissons.
I would say barotrauma. You know, the bends.
Elles désorientent apparemment les baleines , ce qui les fait émerger subitement ; cela entraîne alors un phénomène de décompression, l’azote s’accumule dans le sang de la baleine et cela cause le phénomène typique de la maladie des caissons.
They apparently produce disorientation in whales which makes them surface suddenly; this gives rise to the phenomenon of decompression, nitrogen accumulates in the whales’ blood and this produces the classic phenomenon of the bends.
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