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Zack D. Films video asks why scientists put pigs in diving suits

The suits came from a Duke University study published in PNAS on August tenth, which tested a better way to beat the bends; the pigs weren't consulted.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA video called Why Scientists Put Pigs In Diving Suits is number nine on YouTube's U. S. trending chart, with five point eight million views.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the answer is a real Duke University study. Forty pigs, custom-built suits, a big blue tank in a hyperbaric facility.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCustom-built. Forty pigs, forty fittings. Somebody measured an inseam on a pig.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt was about the bends, Kenji, the bubbles divers get when they surface too fast. Live Science covered it.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere's the turning point. Number twenty-two surfaces too fast, and nobody blames the tailoring.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorPETA called the experiment cruel, though.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty custom suits, and not one pig gets a cut of the five point eight million views.

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