Modeling the observations of in vivo bubble formation with hydrophobic crevices.

The conical crevice model can be used to explain the sharp increase in the number of bubbles observed in shrimp for decompression ratios greater than 4:1 and a new crevice geometry with elliptically shaped walls is introduced which reduces the height of the crevice needed for bubble emergence and relaxes the constraints for the stability of gas nuclei.