This work defined the maximum time an animal could remain submerged without utilizing anaerobic metabolism as the aerobic dive limit (ADL) and was calculated as ADL (min)=total oxygen store (mLO2)/ diving metabolic rate (mLO2 min21)
This work defined the maximum time ananimal could remain submerged without utilizing anaerobicmetabolism as the aerobic dive limit (ADL) and wascalculated as ADL (min)=total oxygen store (mLO2)/diving metabolic rate (mLO2 min21)