seals hyperventilate
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-five years and one million words
Vancouver, 2002.08.27
Tonight, I learned something interesting. Seals hyperventilate before diving. And they breath through their noses while doing so. So, two things, really.
I learned this first-hand while wandering around the sea wall. It was well after Sundown, but there was enough ambient light to just make out the shape of a seal's head drifting through the water just about three or four meters off shore. Anyway, I could make out its breathing because there was almost no wind and very little wave action to make crashing sounds.