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Diving Mammals, an exercise in
respiratory physiology.....
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www.mattijnb.nl
Mattijn Buwalda Anesthetist-Intensivist
& Diving Medicine Physician
Medical & Educational Services
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Short introduction
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Seal nursery Pieterburen NL
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Hall Of Fame • sperm whale 138 min 2250 m
• elephant seal 120 min 1256 m
• weddell seal 82 min 726 m
• cal. sea lion 15 min 482 m
• walrus 12 min 100 m
• bottle nose dolphin 8 min 390 m
• sea lion 8 min 250 m
• fur seal 5 min 101 m
• manatees 3 min 12 m
• sea otter 2.3 min 23 m
• homo sapiens (untrained) 1 min ?4 m
Schreer, J. F., and K. M. Kovacs (1997). “Allometry of Diving Capacity in Air-Breathing Vertebrates.” Can.. Zool. 75: 339–358.
Ponganis PJ. Diving Mammals. Comp Physiol 2011;1:517-535
Schagatay, E., Fahlman, A. Man's place among the diving mammals. Human Evolution. 2014;29(1-3): 47-66
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Schagatay, E., Fahlman, A. Man's place among the diving mammals. Human Evolution. 2014;29(1-3): 47-66
We are shallow divers
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Human apnea divers
• competitive apnea diving (single dives)
– Branko Petrovic 11:54 (static apnea)
– Herbert Nitsch 252 msw (no limits)
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Baby divers
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Commercial skin divers
• commercial skindivers (repetitive within ADL)
– Ama divers (Japan and Korea) average
dive time: 38 sec with equal surface
intervals, foraging at 5-12 msw
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Odobenidae:
Walruses
Otariida:
Sealions
Eared seals
Fur seals
Phocidae:
Earless seals
Pinnipeds(Flipperachtigen)
Baleen Whale
Toothed Whale
Whales
Dolphins
Porpoises
(Bruinvis)
Cetacea(walsvisachtigen)
Manatees
Dugong
Sirenians(Sea cows)
Diving Mammals
‘Family tree’
similar evolutionary
adaptations in
different species
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Crawling back to sea
Ambulocetus,
early cetacean that
could walk as well as
swim (45 million yrs
ago)
Puijila darwini was a semi-
aquatic carnivore
(24 million yrs ago)
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Evolution in progress
excellent swimmer, 13 sec dives
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Problems of diving (when you’re not a fish)
• HPNS
• oxygen supply
• the bends (DCS)
• narcotic effects
• oxygen toxicity
• temperature
homeostasis
• drag
• barotrauma
don’t breath!
a bit more
complicated.....
insulation & body
weight
streamlining
no airpockets
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Big, fat and furry.....
• homeothermic endotherm
• heat conduction water vs air: x 25!
• conductive heat loss: SA x C x T grad
– SA = surface area
– C = thermal conductance
– T = temperature gradient
insulation: blubber
or fur
low surface area/
volume ratio
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Fur • only the densest fur maintains a layer of
trapped air when wet
– multiple underhairs per hair canal
– fur seal: 60.000 hairs/ cm2
– sea otter: 130.000 hairs/ cm2
– hydrophobic liquid/ sebaceous
• air compression during deep dives!
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Blubber
• insulation (not as efficient as dry fur)
– fat content
– thickness
• vascularised to enable heat loss
• energy store
• buoyancy
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Problems of diving (when you’re not a fish)
• HPNS
• oxygen supply
• the bends (DCS)
• narcotic effects
• oxygen toxicity
• temperature
homeostasis
• drag
• barotrauma
don’t breath!
a bit more
complicated.....
insulation & body
weight
streamlining
no airpockets
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Limit alveolar gas exchange • seals exhale before diving
• alveolar collapse (atelectasis)
– total collapse at 25 - 50 msw (varies per
species)
– visible thoracic compression
Falke KJ, Hill RD, Qvist J, et al. Seal lungs collapse during free diving: evidence from arterial nitrogen tensions. Science. 1985 Aug 9;229(4713):556-8.
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Adaptations for alveolar collapse
• flexible chest case
• more cartilage
• reinforced terminal airways
• whales lack a sternum
• special surfactant with an anti-adhesive effect
Miller NJ, et al. The surface activity of pulmonary surfactant from diving mammals. Respir Physiol neurobiol 2006;150:220-32
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Oblique diafragm
Manatee and Harbor seal
• bulging diafragm
• displacement of abdominal organs
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Lung collapse in humans
• less flexible chest cage
• lung squeeze!
• theoretical ‘MOD’: at residual lung volume
(TLC:RV +1) x 10 = MOD in msw
TLC = 8 RV = 0.5
MOD = 170 msw
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Lung packing
• lungpacking
– buccal pumping, TLC + 2 L
– increased inspiratory reserve
volume
• reversed lungpacking at depth
– to decrease residual lung volume
– ‘suck air from the lungs’
• blood shift
– redistribution peripheral > central
– diminished airvolume
Schagatay E. Predicting performance in competitive apnea diving. Part II: depth. Diving and hyperbaric medicine 2011;41:216-228
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Lowering residual volume
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Lung volumes
Lung packing
Lax diafragm
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Other respiratory adaptations
• nares are closed, opening requires
muscular contraction
• powerful laryngeal muscles
• cartilage reinforcement of terminal
airways
– so that the alveoli collapse before the
trachea and bronchus.
– prevent airway closure during expiration
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Dynamic airway compression
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Flowrate
• Blue whale: 1500 L in & expiration in 2 sec
• 90% air renewal in one breath! (humans 10%)
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Total alveolar collaps in diving mammals
at 25-50 msw protects against
excessive nitrogen partial pressure and
absorption
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Barotrauma • narrowing of the
proximal airways
• absence of air-filled
sinuses
• expansible venous
plexuses lining the
middle ear cavity
• expansible venous
sinuses in tracheal
wall
Structure and biomechanical properties of the
trachea of the striped dolphin Stenella
coeruleoalba: Evidence for evolutionary
adaptations to diving
The Anatomical Record Part A: Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology Volume 284A, Issue 1, pages 500-510, 24 MAR 2005 DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20182
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.a.20182/full#fig4
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Problems of diving (when you’re not a fish)
• HPNS
• oxygen supply
• the bends (DCS)
• narcotic effects
• oxygen toxicity
• temperature
homeostasis
• drag
• barotrauma
don’t breath!
a bit more
complicated.....
insulation & body
weight
streamlining
no airpockets
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HPNS
• high pressure nervous syndrome in human divers
possible > 15 atm
• occurs in al animals with a CNS
• animal life up to 1000 atm!
• unknown coping mechanism
• no data for diving mammals
• theory: alveolar muscular
sfincter can allow for some N2
absorption
Brauer RW. Hydrostatic pressure effects on the central nervous system: prespectives and outlook. Philosophical transactions of the royal society of london: series b, biological sciences.
1984;304:17-30
Burney J. Le Boeuf. Prolonged, continuous, deep diving by northern elephant seals. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 1989, 67(10): 2514-2519
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The problem of limited
oxygen supply
• Increase oxygen stores or
• decrease oxygen use!
• decreased temperature/ metabolic rate?
• decrease activity?
• increased oxygen storage?
• anaerobic processes?
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Hypometabolism?
Sholander PE, et al. On the temperature and metabolism of the seal during diving. J cell compar physiol. 1942;21:53-63
Harbour seal during experimental dive A = brain, B = abdomen, C = dorsal musculature
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Oxygen Storage
Weddel seal 380 kg
Blood volume 15%
Ht 50-60
Fur seal 200 kg
Blood volume 11%
Ht 50
Human 70 kg
Blood volume 7%
Ht 40
82 min,
600
msw
1 min,
4 msw
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Sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus)
weight 10.000 kg
blood volume 20%
Ht 52
myoglobin 56 gr/kg
68 ml O2/kg
lungs 4%
blood 38%
muscle 58%
Kooyman GL, Ponganis PJ. The physiological basis of diving to depth: Birds and mammals. Annu Rev Physiol 1998;60:19-32
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Hb x 9 on a weight base!
Mass Whale Hunting in Faroe Islands
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Oxygen stores • lung
• Hb bound
– x 9.5 in whales
– P50 = 26-30 mmHG
– Hb correlates with max
depth
• myoglobin
– P50 = 3 mmHG
– Mb 10-30 x
– Correlates with ADL
• ‘scuba cylinders’:
– spleen
– retia mirabilis
Lenfant C.Physiological properties of blood of marine mammals. In: Anderson HT editor. The biology of marine mammals. New York:Academic press.1969.p.95-116
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Autotransfusion... Seal spleen:
• 4.5% of body
weight
• correlates with
dive depth
Oxygen and the diving seal. Thornton SJ, Hochachka PW. UHM 2004;31:81-93
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Splenic contraction
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Retia mirabilia in ceteceans
• contorted spirals of blood vessels, arterial + veneus
• blood reservoir (oxygen storage)
• to accommodate increased thoracic blood volume
(peripheral blood shift) Pfeiffer, C. J., and T. P. Kinkead (1990). “Microanatomy of Retia Mirabilia of Bowhead Whale Foramen Magnum and Mandibular Foramen.”Acta Anat. 139: 141–150.
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Dive patterns
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Dive patterns
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Aerobic Dive Limit (ADL)
Kooyman et al 1981
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Shallow vs deep
Shallow divers + terrestrial
• sea otter, fur seal,
human
• inspiration before diving
• O2 source storage =
lung
• dive within ADL
Deep divers
• weddel seal, whales
• seals exhale before
diving
• O2 storage = Hb &
myoglobine
• most dives < ADL
• can go beyond ADL
Snyder GK. Respiratory adaptations in diving mammals. Resp Physiol. 1983;54:269-294
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N. Elephant seal
• during 2 months at sea
• 85% of time under water
• average depth 400 m
• average dive time 20 min (ADL)
• surface interval 3 min
• frequent ADL dives are the most
efficient (no oxygen debt)
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Two big questions....
• How to conserve your oxygen?
• How to cope with lactate
acidosis and hypoxia?
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The Mammalian Dive Response
• apnoe
• peripheral
vasoconstriction
• centralisation of
circulation
• reduced cardiac
output
• bradycardia
• diminishing O2
stores (activity is a
factor)
• peripheral lactic acid
accumulation
• reduced peripheral
metabolism due to
acidosis
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Redistribution
peripheral shutdown
• skin
• muscle
• splanchnic organs
centralization
• brain
• retina
• lung
• heart
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Arteriovenous Anastomoses
Kooyman GL. Diverse divers: physiology and behavior. 1989 Springer-Verlag, Berlin
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Redistribution in a Weddell seal
Zapol WM, Liggins GC, Schneider RC, et al. Regional blood flow during simulated diving in the conscious Weddell seal. JAP 1979;47:968-973
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Metabolic depression
peripheral
shutdown
hypothermia
acididosis
local
depresse
d
metabolic
rate
Core temperature is maintained!
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Bradycardia of a ringed seal
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Maintenance of central map
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Enlarged aortic bulb
• heart frequency
down to 5%
• increased stroke
volume
• aortic bulb & elastic
recoil
• windkessel function
Ventral view of heart of Weddell seal
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Ischemia tolerance
accumulation of muscle
lactate and oxygen
depletion in harbor seals
renal blood flow before
and after 60 min of
ischemia Halasz NA, Elsner R, Garvie RS, et al. Renal recovery from ischemia: a comparative study Of seal and dog kidneys. Am. J. Physiol. 1974;227:1331-1335
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Caval sphincter
• only in seals!
• to prevent venous return
• to titrate autotransfusion (spleen)
• to protect the heart against acidotic blood
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Oxygen debt
Grey seal, experimental dive in captivity
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Blood gasses during dive
Weddell seal duration PO2 PCO2 pH
Free dive 27 min 18 mmHg 55 mmHg 7.3
Forced
submersion
12 min 32 mmHg 59 mmHg 7.25
Forced
submersion
55 min 10 mmHg 84 mmHg 7.11
O2 consumption 2-9 ml/kg/min
Inverse correlated to dive duration
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surface interval:
PaO2 recovery within 150 sec
Blood gasses after dive
Weddell seal duration PCO2 pH lactate
forced
submersion
61 min post dive
55 mmHg
post dive
6.8
max 26
mmol/L
free dive < ADL max 2 mmol/L
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Cerebral ischeamic tolerance
• maintained flow during
bradycardia
• hypoxic tolerance down
to PaO2 8 mm Hg in
Harbour seal
• anaerobic metabolism!
• increased glycogen
• high capillary density
Kerem D, Elsner R. Cerebral tolerance to asphyxial hypoxia in the harbour seal. Respiration physiology 1973;19:188-200
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Capillary 30-60 µm
from tissue cell
Krogh cylinder
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Initiation of diving response
• Immersion/ stimulation of the face,
nasal mucosa and pharynx
– cold > warm water
– pain
• breath holding
• cessation of lung inflation
• synergistic response
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Trigeminal nerve stimulation
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Maintenance and termination
• hypoxia, hypercapnia and acidosis
reinforce dive response
• degree of bradycardia also depends on
activity level
• pulmonary inflation (ascend) terminates
dive response
• conscious control!
– variable bradycardia
– modest dive response if voluntary shallow
dive within ADL
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Other species
• all vertebrates exhibit a dive
response.
• caiman from 28 > 2 beats/min.
• neural pathways are universal
–sympathetic > vasoconstriction
–parasympathetic > bradycardia
Schreer JF. Allometry of diving capacity in air-breathing vertebrates. Can J Zool 1997;75:339-358
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Bradycardia in free divers
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Dive response wiring
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Summary
• most dives within ADL
• variable dive response
• conscious control
• centralisation of circulation
• bradycardia
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Summary
• Physiologic adaptations:
• increased oxygen storage
• (Ht, Blood volume, myoglobine, huge spleen,
retia mirabilia)
• compliant aorta/ bulging diafragm/ caval sfincter
• reinforced terminal bronchi
• special surfactant
• hypoxic tolerance: brain, kidney and gut
• glycogen stores
• capillary density
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After thoughts
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Perinatal asphyxia
• polycythemia (diving mammals)
• left shift ODC (mountain dwellers)
• channel dens, (hibernating turtles)
• hypothermia (hibernating turtles)
• bradycardia (diving mammals)
• redistribution (diving mammals)
• apnea (diving mammals)
• acidosis induced metabolic suppression
(diving mammals)
Singer D. Neonatal tolerance to hypoxia; a comparative-physiological approach. Comp Biochem Physiol part A 1999;123:221-234
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Asphyxia
• neonate & diving
mammal
• hypothermia
• bradycardia
• apnea
• redistribution
• buying time!
• human adult
• tachycardia
• hyperventilation
• metabolic increase
• counter productive
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Recommended literature
• Knut Schmidt-Nielsen: Animal physiology, adaptation and environment
ISBN 0521381967
• Ponganis PJ. Diving Mammals. Comp Physiol 2011;1:517-535
• Schagatay E. Predicting performance in competitive apnoea diving.
Part I: static apnoea. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2009;3(2):88-99.
• Schagatay E. Predicting performance in competitive apnea diving. Part
II: dynamic apnea. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2010;40(1):11-22.
• Schagatay, E. (2011). Predicting Performance in Competitive Apnea
Diving. Part III: Depth. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, 41(4): 216-228.