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The Byford Dolphin Incident has gone down in history as one of the most horrific workplace accidents of all time. So, this might get a bit gory. In 1983, a team of saturation divers off the coast of Finland experienced an explosive decompression event that ended the lives of five people, one of whom in the most destructive way imaginable. So today we’re talking about saturation diving, what makes it so dangerous, and what went wrong on that fateful day.


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This is the autopsy report. Seriously, viewer discretion advised.
https://zero.sci-hub.se/5268/7dda7cee52d7eb3ec606a82d0f1b9a61/giertsen1988.pdf

ray-sinclair-journo.medium.com/dying-for-oil-66bc36502e29
youtube.com/watch?v=DOIVjQS9cUw
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7314283.stm
dan.org/alert-diver/article/commercial-diving-safety
divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-pipeline-deaths-blamed-on-oil-companys-gross-negligence
newatlas.com/robotics/uone-auv-rov
newatlas.com/aquanaut-auv-rov/54441/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
nauticusrobotics.com
marinetechnologynews.com/news/nauticus-robotics-subsea-robot-638893

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - The Byford Dolphin
1:38 - Saturation Divers
3:33 - Tangent Cam
6:08 - The Incident
10:02 - The Fourth Diver
12:36 - The Aftermath
15:15 - A Safer North Sea
19:20 - Sponsor - Ground News