Which outcome occurs when a marine mammal rapidly ascends from deep dives to sea level?

💡 Explanation

When a marine mammal rapidly ascends, decompression occurs because reduced pressure causes dissolved nitrogen to come out of solution, triggering vasodilation to accelerate nitrogen excretion which may then leads to the formation of nitrogen bubbles in tissues, causing decompression sickness. Therefore gas bubble formations result, rather than buoyancy loss, hypothermia, or oxygen poisoning, each from distinct mechanisms.

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