The Dangers of Diving
Needless to say, this would cause the diver to drown, or at least pass out. Even though the Bajau Laut tribe has this genetic failsafe built into their bodies, they are still not completely immune to the effects of drowning. Roughly 4-40 members of the tribe drown annually, and that’s with all of the protective measures that they already have in place to avoid this. However, there is one particularly dangerous phenomenon that claims more lives than drowning and old age annually combined…
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