An Elephant Seal’s Deep Dive | Friends of the Elephant Seal
An Elephant Seal’s Deep Dive. When diving to hunt, the northern elephant seal first exhales, emptying its lungs of almost all air. This reduces buoyancy and protects the seal from the bends (decompression sickness).
Elephant seal - Wikipedia
Elephant seals dive to 1,550 m (5,090 ft) beneath the ocean's surface [17] (the deepest recorded dive of an elephant seal is 2,388 m (7,835 ft) by a southern elephant seal, while the record for the northern elephant seal is 1,735 m (5,692 ft)).
Inside Elephant Seal Pups’ Race to the Depths - Smithsonian Magazine
Jan 16, 2024 · On the first day they head out to sea, juvenile northern elephant seals can dive for up to 11 minutes, a duration that their southern relatives don’t achieve for 125 days, according to a...
Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga Angustirostris) Diving ... - YouTube
Jul 23, 2018 · Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga Angustirostris) Diving, Playing With Diver. Largest collection of Elephant Seal stock video footage....
Elephant Seals, the Champion Divers of the Deep | Smithsonian
More than their appearance is remarkable about elephant seals. They can dive as deep as a mile, where the pressure is crushing, and stay underwater for as long as two hours.
Northern Elephant Seal - U.S. National Park Service
May 21, 2021 · Northern elephant seals are exceptional divers.—sometimes diving deeper than 4900 feet and remaining submerged for 1-2 hours. Males feed near the eastern Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, and females feed further south, in …
About The Seals | Friends of the Elephant Seal
Diving: The average dive depth of an elephant seal is 1,000 to 3,000 feet (300 - 900 meters) with a maximum depth of over 5,000 feet (1,500 meters). Read on below to learn more interesting facts about the elephant seals at each stage of their...
Learning to swim, elephant seal style - Natural Reserve System
Feb 11, 2019 · Elephant seals were born to swim, and scientists have the data to show it. For the first time, researchers at the University of California have tracked the diving behavior of northern elephant seal pups on their inaugural journeys into the open ocean.
Earthguide: Elephant Seals
By being able to dive deep, elephant seals are able to leave behind competitors who might outcompete them back at the surface and to avoid shallow-roaming large predators that want to eat them. Elephant seals are specially outfitted to hunt in this environment where it …
Meet Nature's Extreme Athlete, Elephant Seals - Bay Nature …
Jan 6, 2020 · Scientists here and elsewhere learned that elephant seals dive deeper (nearly 6,000 feet), swim farther (averaging more than 9,000 miles a year), and hold their breath longer (up to two hours) than any other seal.