What causes the bends?
Divers get the bends when nitrogen dissolved in their blood forms bubbles because they rise to the surface too quickly.
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Divers get the bends when nitrogen dissolved in their blood forms bubbles because they rise to the surface too quickly.
Salvador Dalí wore a diving suit to a 1936 lecture in London and nearly suffocated.