Fish need to decompress too
According to CAS’s Matt Wandell the chamber is fairly simple in design and can bring a fish up to to surface pressure in around 20 hours or so without adverse effects.
Aside from burst swim bladders, fish, like humans, can also get decompression sickness when exposed to rapid changes in pressure during capture.
“Bent” fish are most likely widespread in the live reef fish trade, as most of the species that have been examined were found to suffer symptoms of decompression sickness after capture from shallow depths of 10 to 15 metres.
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