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WILD BITES: How does a sperm whale survive the crushing depths a mile underwater?

A really good free diver can get down to 400 feet – that’s like a 40-story skyscraper. But there’s an animal that can go way beyond even those depths.

Meet the sperm whale, the true deep divers of the ocean. On this WILD BITE, we'll look at how an animal that’s bigger than a large school bus can dive 10 times deeper than the limit of an extreme human and not die.


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