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seals hyperventilate

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a 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.

rand()m quote

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero