Quick summary, they can but their lungs are structured to partially collapse to limit nitrogen exchange while continuing to exchange oxygen and carbon-dioxide.

Quick summary, they can but their lungs are structured to partially collapse to limit nitrogen exchange while continuing to exchange oxygen and carbon-dioxide. Sonar is suspected to cause whales to die of the bends. https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/how-do-marine-mammals-avoid-getting-the-bends/ https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/how-do-marine-m...