Sucked Through a Tiny Hole - Byford Dolphin Incident

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Storified

3 ай бұрын

On November 5, 1983, the Byford Dolphin incident shocked the offshore drilling industry. Five men tragically lost their lives when a sudden pressure shift from 9 atmospheres to 1 atmosphere occurred in the pressurized chambers on the rig's surface. This catastrophic decompression accident highlighted critical safety shortcomings and stimulated advancements in diving protocols and technology.
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@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Thank you all for the kind words! I truly appreciate each and every one of you for being here! However, as some of you have already mentioned in the comments, I want to address some points that have been brought up regarding certain incorrect facts mentioned in this video. Upon further review, I've realized that there were inaccuracies in certain segments, and I want to sincerely apologize for any confusion this may have caused. In particular: - At 2:39 the measurement systems got mixed up during production. "14.6 LBS force per square METER" is mentioned which should have been "per square INCH" - The only body that was left unrecognizable was of Truls Hellevik, because he was the only one that was sucked through the small crescent shaped opening. the bodies of the other divers were mostly intact externally since most of the damage was done internally. It is very important to me that all content on this channel is thoroughly researched and fact-checked, and I'm committed to ensuring the highest level of accuracy.
@ryant115
@ryant115 2 ай бұрын
You can go ahead and just rock me to sleep tonight after sharing this. Yeah, yeah, I know I chose to watch it, and I'd watch it again, but gezz that's a hella way to go.
@Wesselkous
@Wesselkous 2 ай бұрын
ah no problem bro. Good vids very very good.
@RWBHere
@RWBHere 2 ай бұрын
2:37 That should be 14.6 pounds per square inch*, not per square metre.
@dangoesfast
@dangoesfast 2 ай бұрын
@@RWBHere I'm guessing that's why the pinned comment says "- At 2:39 the measurement systems got mixed up during production. "14.6 LBS force per square METER" is mentioned which should have been "per square INCH""
@koharumi1
@koharumi1 2 ай бұрын
As part of international audience please include metric measurements for each imperial version. Such as some text onscreen. It will also help increase your audience.
@crunchyapples596
@crunchyapples596 3 ай бұрын
Lessons from KZfaq: 1. Never go diving. 2. Never go caving.
@Boxy071
@Boxy071 3 ай бұрын
Lmfao!! Soooo true!! Haha!!
@bobbycigarillo
@bobbycigarillo 3 ай бұрын
3. Never go cave diving
@mich5924
@mich5924 3 ай бұрын
If that's your full list, you obviously haven't been watching any GunTube. I can think of at least two men who nearly died on camera operating dangerous devices I didn't know were legal for private ownership.
@basic5926
@basic5926 3 ай бұрын
@@mich5924 Firearms are generally safe as long as you are operating them properly and are using the right ammo. For example, Kentucky Ballistics nearly died because he was using counterfeit ammo that produced way too much pressure, but if he'd been using regular .50 BMG he'd have been fine. I understand that guns and gun-usage are scary topics that make people nervous, but calling the gun itself dangerous is just silly. It's no more of a "dangerous device" than a car, lawnmower or grill and I doubt you'd even bat an eye at any of those things.
@bunnyfan9960
@bunnyfan9960 3 ай бұрын
Those are good lessons!
@roycalyptus2474
@roycalyptus2474 3 ай бұрын
Working for 12 or 18 hours straight is like the ideal environment for mistakes like this to happen
@roycalyptus2474
@roycalyptus2474 3 ай бұрын
@@SaschaWiedmann-qu5sz Kennen sie luut schmain?
@ChicagoMel23
@ChicagoMel23 3 ай бұрын
What they said is facts and not dumb
@indiomoustafa2047
@indiomoustafa2047 3 ай бұрын
Especially with no saftey lock or something. I cant believe the rigs design would even allow you to kill an entire crew with such a simple mistake. Its like having a self destruct button at waist level with no glass covering it, someone WILL bump it by mistake. Someone will have a lapse in judgement eventually and thats why redundant saftey protocol is necessary. Maybe theres a reason no such fearure could exist, I would sure like to know.
@indiomoustafa2047
@indiomoustafa2047 3 ай бұрын
​@@ChicagoMel23Who said it was dumb and not facts?
@srJaime98
@srJaime98 3 ай бұрын
@@roycalyptus2474I don’t speak ww2
@drews5569
@drews5569 2 ай бұрын
The fact that both doors could be opened simultaneously - and that the only "safety mechanism" was communication between two guys opening the doors - blows my mind.
@SidneyWells
@SidneyWells Ай бұрын
i mean, it blow their mind too.
@eenpersoon2881
@eenpersoon2881 Ай бұрын
It blew theirs too lmao
@madcow8114
@madcow8114 Ай бұрын
Wow classy
@spikenomoon
@spikenomoon Ай бұрын
It didn’t blow anything. It removed everything while turning it into Miniature Matted.
@ifthenplay
@ifthenplay Ай бұрын
very 80’s-level ISO workplace standards.
@tasha3757
@tasha3757 Ай бұрын
Having your workers work up to 18 hrs a day with only 3 hours of a sleep isolated for 28 days straight is a recipe for disaster in itself…
@ronnie_5150
@ronnie_5150 17 күн бұрын
I don't even think that's legal anymore.
@godnyx117
@godnyx117 14 күн бұрын
Who cares? Money! 🤑 They make the world, round!
@ronnie_5150
@ronnie_5150 14 күн бұрын
@@godnyx117 For some. But if I was offered 30 grand, but then told, "There is a chance, you could get sucked through the mail slot in the door." 😆
@godnyx117
@godnyx117 14 күн бұрын
@@ronnie_5150 For most, unfortunately. Look at people buying at Amazon (and big companies in general, they are all "evil") because it has slightly cheaper prices. Look at people consooming unnecessary stuff. Look at people having to work shitty jobs they hate, in order to support a stupid lifestyle. Anyway, I just woke up and I don't want to start ranting. But you get the point... The average person sucks hard...
@SurelyYewJest
@SurelyYewJest 13 күн бұрын
Ya...but money.
@R_Karri
@R_Karri 3 ай бұрын
18 hours of work and 3 hours sleep? That sounds like the plot of a horror movie.
@vernonsmith6176
@vernonsmith6176 3 ай бұрын
Remember what narrator said they were paid 34 to 45 thousand dollars PER month!, for the hard work. Sorry, not for me, you can have it.
@TheOfficialRandomGuy
@TheOfficialRandomGuy 2 ай бұрын
@@vernonsmith6176exactly. I wouldn’t trade my health for more money.
@iscander_s
@iscander_s 2 ай бұрын
@@vernonsmith6176 No matter how many they pay, this is inhuman working conditions and should NOT be allowed
@runasth
@runasth 2 ай бұрын
I will put both my physical and mental health above any pay wage. Not amount of work is worth putting my safety and well-being, let alone my life, at risk.
@Chroogomphus
@Chroogomphus 2 ай бұрын
buckle up buttercup
@ianbattles7290
@ianbattles7290 3 ай бұрын
Being blinked out of existence in a nanosecond sounds like a pretty decent way to go, actually. No pain, no fear...you probably don't even realize that it happened.
@exDivinityFPS
@exDivinityFPS 2 ай бұрын
Everyone's like "gruesome" and "horrible" and I'm over here like "Sign me up!"
@nategreatgames78
@nategreatgames78 2 ай бұрын
@@exDivinityFPS It will be for the ones who have to do recovery and clean up, and then for us who hear about it and ended up watching videos like this visualizing it.
@exDivinityFPS
@exDivinityFPS 2 ай бұрын
@@nategreatgames78 Well maybe don't watch the videos and visualize it? If I'mma go, I'd rather it be instant. What happens after that is honestly not my concern at that point, lol
@AsokaTw-mz3lr
@AsokaTw-mz3lr 2 ай бұрын
@@exDivinityFPS you sound like an incel.
@TomAS-wm5mn
@TomAS-wm5mn 2 ай бұрын
possibly, but just the thought of it in claustrophobia, is disturbing
@tunod-
@tunod- Ай бұрын
''Have repeatedly performed the process and knew it by heart'' that's some words you dont wanna hear when doing crucial stuff like this. Being so good at something you dont even think about it no more is a recipe for disaster
@EatinMonstersSince87
@EatinMonstersSince87 Ай бұрын
Complacency
@ighfee
@ighfee Ай бұрын
I work in mining in the north west of Australia, and that would have to be one of the truest statements I've ever read. We work with robots that are quite capable of taking your head off, and never ever do you take them for granted. Full isolation procedures every time before you enter the cell. Always test for dead. The minute you feel pushed for time and cut corners is the day you die.
@maestro6492
@maestro6492 28 күн бұрын
​@EatinMonstersSince87 More like autonomy. We're biologically engineered to make processes so.
@unitedstatesdepartmentofsa7718
@unitedstatesdepartmentofsa7718 20 күн бұрын
100% true. Everyone's afraid of doing a dangerous job at first. That fear keeps you safe. Once you've done it a thousand times, you stop being scared of it. I almost cut my thumb off on a bandsaw for that reason.
@ronnie_5150
@ronnie_5150 17 күн бұрын
Very true. On so many jobs, the new guys are usually the ones that follow the rules to the letter. The guys that have been there a long time take shortcuts. Not always, but a lot of the time.
@HolldollMcG
@HolldollMcG 2 ай бұрын
My father works with OSHA as an environmental engineer. Oart of his job is to investigate accidents in order to implement better training/protocols. Once he had to investigate the death of a man who was sucked into an industrial fan and vapourised. There was nothing left but a red mist.
@ChallengeFate
@ChallengeFate Ай бұрын
this is terrible, this guy's poor relatives
@MarkJones-n
@MarkJones-n Ай бұрын
Sounds better than a wood-chipper feet first!
@DeesonJame
@DeesonJame Ай бұрын
Sounds like he faked his own death.
@bevtube1567
@bevtube1567 Ай бұрын
Horrific
@redsentry9785
@redsentry9785 Ай бұрын
​@@Johnconnohe concluded that indeed, the man was dead
@Majorx93
@Majorx93 3 ай бұрын
I have quit my job working in oil and gas technician, for reasons like this. From my experience, the management will always push us to do shortcuts and unsafe acts for KPI and to save money, and if an accident like this happens, they will %100 blame it on us for being unsafe🤷🏻‍♂️
@extec101
@extec101 2 ай бұрын
and in the byford case it took almost 30years for the familys to get compensation after the accident and a lengthy court case.
@jackandrews1444
@jackandrews1444 2 ай бұрын
Well sure,,,,how can they do wrong.......sitting at a desk they don't know shit
@DRAGONSAREPRETTYCOOL
@DRAGONSAREPRETTYCOOL 2 ай бұрын
Good thing i'm not planning on being interested in a job like this
@june19th85
@june19th85 2 ай бұрын
I totally agree! Push for money and time
@BlackPill-pu4vi
@BlackPill-pu4vi 2 ай бұрын
It should law to compel the big shareholders and bean counters to work for a week in the diving chamber before imposing such callous and unsafe work practices. That includes any work that become needlessly hazardous due to shortcuts and concerns for shareholder profits.
@krist6074
@krist6074 3 ай бұрын
"You go from biology to physics instantly" - Scott Manly.
@andrewdoesyt7787
@andrewdoesyt7787 3 ай бұрын
Sounds like something he’d say.
@domsquaaa4323
@domsquaaa4323 3 ай бұрын
.
@nathanwilliams4005
@nathanwilliams4005 3 ай бұрын
"That's what she said." -Michael Scott
@TheTransporter007
@TheTransporter007 3 ай бұрын
They went from biology to (literally) inside out.
@taylorjensen2787
@taylorjensen2787 3 ай бұрын
​@@TheTransporter007that's the joke..
@theepicguy253
@theepicguy253 2 ай бұрын
would i accept a 45 grand monthly pay job? yes. would i do it with a 3 hours of sleep 18 hours of work, high pressure, intense claustrophobia, etc? me personally, no.
@myname-in8sh
@myname-in8sh 2 ай бұрын
Yup; 45k a month in 1983 is 140k a month today; still wouldn't do it.
@HolldollMcG
@HolldollMcG 2 ай бұрын
Gotta be a balance between good pay and good conditions. One cannot replace the other. Employers need to start viewing their employees as human beings with inherent worth and value, not just a means to increase revenue.
@richardbarrett4537
@richardbarrett4537 Ай бұрын
@@myname-in8shI’d do it. I’d be mortgage free after 4 months
@greghubbard2719
@greghubbard2719 Ай бұрын
​@@HolldollMcGthey don't need to because there will always be people willing to take the money
@asleepappeal
@asleepappeal Ай бұрын
I would accept it with 3 hours sleep if nobody's life was on the line. But I would not when some other guy is getting 3 hours sleep and he is responsible for my life. Most people suck at their jobs when they get plenty of sleep much less in those conditions.
@ScotsmanDougal
@ScotsmanDougal 2 ай бұрын
My uncle was on the Dolphin when this happened. Said it was the most horrific thing he has ever seen. Body parts were being found for days afterwards.
@lazydave9761
@lazydave9761 2 ай бұрын
Uh huh.
@Brzeczyszczykiewicz00000
@Brzeczyszczykiewicz00000 Ай бұрын
The smell would be horrible
@pinesapp
@pinesapp Ай бұрын
@@lazydave9761 insensitive as hell
@Protactiny
@Protactiny Ай бұрын
Oh no
@ScotsmanDougal
@ScotsmanDougal Ай бұрын
@@pinesappIt's ok, some people get their kicks by being a keyboard warrior. Their personal life is terrible so they take it out on other people online. Never in real life because they're cowards.
@AleisterCrowleyMagus
@AleisterCrowleyMagus 2 ай бұрын
It took the gov 26 years - 26 years - to compensate these families. How appalling.
@smugfrog8111
@smugfrog8111 2 ай бұрын
The fact the families weren't charged with some bogus crime to cover their asses is what's truly shocking. That's just standard operating procedure these days.
@smugfrog8111
@smugfrog8111 2 ай бұрын
@@stinne5830 Because people think the government is their parent. In reality, it's just there to guarantee private contracts and organize the military. Nothing else is really suppose to be in it's purview.
@smugfrog8111
@smugfrog8111 2 ай бұрын
@@stinne5830 "I'm from Denmark and so this isn't really my view entirely either, as I really appreciate the relative equal rights to healthcare and social security that is provided here." Ahh, yeah.. That can't work here in the states. Scale alone makes it impossible without the degradation of our liberties, which are set in stone as absolute and FAR more important. America is built and was founded on the idea that without an absolutist form of liberty, there's nothing at all. No point to anything else what-so-ever. If you're not free to an unsafe degree; (Thomas Jefferson's "Dangerous freedom") You're a subject of the state with no middle ground to be had IMO. Might as well lay down and die because there's truly nothing else that matters. That's not even mentioning racial demographics which... Equally a factor but this comment will get removed if I state why. "However, I was just wondering why it isn't the company's responsibility to pay compensation, since it was their faulty or unsafe equipment, which I'm really just assuming." That's one of the few things I agree IS the purview of government. That falls into the "Guaranteeing contracts" category IMO. The company should be forced to compensate the families. To not would violate the NAP. "I'm wondering if the government OK'd the platform or something like that?" Ohh, no idea. I'd assume there was some sort of permitting process but I have no idea how that works. Was the rig in international waters? If so, that will change things. "Or if the blame is rather unfair and if so, why they didn't go for Dolphin Drilling instead." Well, that's an easy one. Oil companies are harder to fight in court than the state in most cases, so your chances of a payout are higher. That's my guess. That's not even mentioning racial demographics which also render any form of viable socialized medicine or health care impossible.
@smugfrog8111
@smugfrog8111 2 ай бұрын
@@stinne5830 " I won't comment much on our differing views of freedom as I'm sure my appreciation of law and order and staunch disbelief of free will would severely trigger any freedom-sworn American such as yourself. " Not really, it'd just make me sad that people can be happy as slaves. What you call "Law and order" we call governmental control. The only laws that need to exist are those that prevent victimization. So no gun laws, no drug laws, no licenses for basic activities such as driving, no stupid, bullshit laws designed to keep you in check and subdued. That's not liberty. "The one thing I will say, and maybe this is indeed because I've never had to worry about money or food, is that if a company was responsible for the death of my close relative, I'd go for them out of principle and vengeance. Perhaps they are just greedy and looking for a pay-out, which usually you would get out of the Norwegian government anyway. " This is my exact thought process on the matter. You see it all the time here in the states with the cops and the "youth" "I just can't understand how it's the money that matters." Ehh, dollar signs do crazy things to people. NGL.. I kinda get it. You where wronged, you want to be compensated somehow.
@lmao-gq8xb
@lmao-gq8xb 2 ай бұрын
​@@smugfrog8111 clearly this is not true because otherwise you should be living in hunter gatherer tribes. Any form of government is less freedom. The only reason you even believe this is because you have never experienced dangerous freedom. When roaming gangs start raping and pillaging you will quickly forget about your strong view on liberty and ask for the government to protevt you And no, your rifle is not gonna do jack shit when they show up with mad max tanks and whatnot
@dirkdiggler2430
@dirkdiggler2430 3 ай бұрын
Working for Super long hours for days will make you hear and see things. I wouldn't be surprised if the one that opened the chamber heard a voice telling him it was safe to open it, thinking it was one of his crew members.
@godw1ll99
@godw1ll99 3 ай бұрын
this is 100% true, i know from personal experience. its fkn trippy.
@johnbernhardtsen3008
@johnbernhardtsen3008 3 ай бұрын
what about that brit John something with a thick accent!he sailed the british canal for charity!he had been awake for serveral days!, when asked something from the camera boat, he laughed and said he was talking to a dolphin!
@dirkdiggler2430
@dirkdiggler2430 3 ай бұрын
@@johnbernhardtsen3008 lol
@johnbernhardtsen3008
@johnbernhardtsen3008 3 ай бұрын
it was John Bishop!rowing the british canal!@@dirkdiggler2430
@thefrener794
@thefrener794 3 ай бұрын
Some people are put on this earth to thin the herd and you must identify them at all cost. Your life may depend on it.
@billflixtone6684
@billflixtone6684 2 ай бұрын
You missed a lot, the noise, the faulty PA, the rush for the tender to get his crew change, the signal from inside the chamber that confirmed the chamber door was closed (three knocks, which was imitated by the diver going back to retrieve some kit), the practice that had developed of opening the clamp while the trunking was at full pressure (to save time) and more. Accident Investigator from Frigg
@patrikfloding7985
@patrikfloding7985 Ай бұрын
Wow, that’s some awful protocol they had made.
@Leondrius
@Leondrius Ай бұрын
Employer: Asks me to work anywhere near underwater pipes. Me: "Nah, I'm good."
@Jamesssssssssssssss
@Jamesssssssssssssss 3 ай бұрын
No matter how much you pay someone, you cant expect them yo function without atleast 6 hours of sleep minium
@Kyrelel
@Kyrelel 3 ай бұрын
*4 hours
@tedfordsdrumworld910
@tedfordsdrumworld910 2 ай бұрын
Wrong, see any Special Forces Operator or regular forces military service member during combat operations for that matter. You will get almost no sleep and be expected to function to standard.
@DeletedUserAccount
@DeletedUserAccount 2 ай бұрын
​@@tedfordsdrumworld910fair point but special forces are built different, a cut above the rest most people would die instantly and melt like a fat sack of shit in a microwave
@tedfordsdrumworld910
@tedfordsdrumworld910 2 ай бұрын
@ppp90977 the sleep part isn't that hard. The everything else part is hard (SF) but the average person can adapt to extreme conditions if they had too.
@tedfordsdrumworld910
@tedfordsdrumworld910 2 ай бұрын
But it still sucks!!
@srJaime98
@srJaime98 3 ай бұрын
Oil rig workers: you only have to work 5 months! They pay really good Also them: passes away before spending their hard earned money
@midge6265
@midge6265 3 ай бұрын
This was my dream job when i was younger, im too old to do it now, but in these cases your current earnings go to your family/next of kin
@boredyoutubeuser
@boredyoutubeuser 3 ай бұрын
Any job that has me stranded at a location for a long period of job is a job I do not want. Really scary stuff.
@mikes-wv3em
@mikes-wv3em 3 ай бұрын
$72 an hour by my estimate. 18 hrs a day for 31 days straight. $40000. id rather live.
@Kunfucious577
@Kunfucious577 3 ай бұрын
@@mikes-wv3emim sure you wouldn’t have been hired anyway.
@dbzmagus
@dbzmagus 3 ай бұрын
​@@mikes-wv3emDamn, that's actually really shitty pay when you break it down.
@kdmq
@kdmq Ай бұрын
"Pounds per square meter" words no engineer ever wants to hear.
@avianokke2281
@avianokke2281 Ай бұрын
My brain hurts and I am not an engineer nor am I studying to become one
@notmyrealhandle
@notmyrealhandle Ай бұрын
Yeah, what is that in rerigerators per football field
@kyfho47
@kyfho47 21 күн бұрын
Thank you. K was looking for someone to bitch about this. Mixing metric and retard units, and getting it WRONG to boot.
@SpaceCityProjectz
@SpaceCityProjectz 20 күн бұрын
​@notmyrealhandle wtf is a rerigerator?
@Taricus
@Taricus 11 күн бұрын
You can thank AI for that one. It was completely wrong LOL! It's 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi) = 1 atmosphere (atm)
@Psylective
@Psylective Ай бұрын
I worked on this rig in 2011, not as a diver. There was no sight of any diving equipment. The rumour on the rig was that a new steward took the divers a cup of tea and opened the chamber inadvertently. Thanks for clearing that up. What a terrible accident. Pretty sure they only just scrapped it recently.
@gangsterHOTLINE
@gangsterHOTLINE Ай бұрын
That is an oil rig ass tale if I've ever heard one.
@bertabound8093
@bertabound8093 3 ай бұрын
The autopsy report is pretty horrific. As a former oilfield worker (seperate sector), it doesn't surprise me. A lot of companies penny pinch when it comes to communication, proper tools, etc. Every job does in reality, it's just most jobs aren't as potentially dangerous.
@lemmyspeaks
@lemmyspeaks 3 ай бұрын
I just read the autopsy report, as graphic as it is i still have that feeling where your mind thinks it’s not real
@albertomartinez714
@albertomartinez714 3 ай бұрын
The autopsy has a crazy picture of one of the guy's faces blown off. But a couple of 'em don't look as bad as you'd think. Some of them are a complete mess, though.
@ryant115
@ryant115 2 ай бұрын
Hard pass.
@tortellinifettuccine
@tortellinifettuccine 2 ай бұрын
Almost like a company's only goal is profit
@annak9646
@annak9646 2 ай бұрын
Big oil doesn’t care about the environmental or its workers - no amount of money could make me destroy the planet like that and jeopardise the environment for my children
@mikehenry4743
@mikehenry4743 3 ай бұрын
Man, they have safety locks on simple pressure cookers that won't let you open the lid until pressure is reduced. Why wasn't there some kind of similar safety on a high tech system like this.
@Kunfucious577
@Kunfucious577 3 ай бұрын
Some of it was ignorance. The industry was too new to think of every risk. They can’t have a solution to risks they don’t know. A lot of it was because safety wasn’t really that important. Look at everything before the 80s and it was similar. Some examples include F1 racing, optional seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, Ford Pinto, led in gasoline, X-rays, etc.
@Guigui_82
@Guigui_82 3 ай бұрын
​@@Kunfucious577It reminds me that F1 pit stop guys didn't wear helmets until one of them got killed by a flying wheel. I think it was in the 90's. Also, no seat bells at all in cars seems insane nowadays. It always triggers me when I see that in old movies. As a kid from the 80's, I lived the time when seat belts were not mandatory in the back seats. Once, I got thrown from my seat onto the the car floor, unharmed, but still a bit shocked. Another time, my sister got thrown frontward and her head hurt the driver 's seat railing. My mom who was driving is small, so the seat was all the way to the front, exposing the rails behind it. My sister' s skull skin was cut open and bleeding quite a lot. No skull damage, but few stiches and a big fear. I can't imagine driving kids around whitout safety now. Can you imagine babies were just put in a cot on the backseat, unattached! 🤯
@TeStOs78
@TeStOs78 3 ай бұрын
More like an old low tech... outdated systems always pose greater potential for these incidents.
@dragondude9637
@dragondude9637 3 ай бұрын
They do now, but back then they relied on specific orders.
@mcmicanator
@mcmicanator 3 ай бұрын
It's essentially a pressure cooker with a vise clamp holding it closed, nothing high tech about it
@Him_He_Me
@Him_He_Me 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this detailed description. Ive seen this story a few times and this channel has the best description, aka synopsis of events that happened leading to this catastrophic failure. I now know what happened completely. So glad these poor human beings felt nothing.
@KwonJasperet
@KwonJasperet 10 күн бұрын
It's thanks to channels like this that I will never go caving or diving and definitely never go cave diving either in a million years. Thank you for that you have probably saved my life making these videos!
@DarthMuse
@DarthMuse 3 ай бұрын
No matter how much you get paid, no amount is worth the mental stress of this job.
@nagggahaggaa
@nagggahaggaa 2 ай бұрын
Not to mention being yanked out of existence
@preflightdrip8672
@preflightdrip8672 Ай бұрын
You say that but as a young guy doing the math real quick, it said they were being paid $30-45k/month in the video. Modern money vs 83 that means on the top end it could be up $140k/month assuming you probably don't do that year round you're making probably $250-500k per year and can work a part time job when not doing that. Live like you're very poor while doing that for 5 to 10 years and you'd never have to work again, put it in finances like stocks and retire young to enjoy the rest of your life fairly wealthy and leave a good amount behind for family. I mean you could own a house fully paid off in one to two years. As a young guy with hindsight into what happened here I'd say no, but if I was there and had the opportunity to do it like these guys did with no idea this would happen I mean sign me up. One terrible decade but afterwards everything would be good sounds too much like a dream come true when you're young
@Lion-tq7ob
@Lion-tq7ob Ай бұрын
How I felt hearing 18 hours a day 3 hours of sleep. "Man screw tha--" *30-45k a month* ($90-140k a month adjusted for inflation) "...hmm..."
@preflightdrip8672
@preflightdrip8672 Ай бұрын
@@Lion-tq7ob yeah really sign me up
@meruem3327
@meruem3327 Ай бұрын
Military is probably just as bad at times but gets paid less even with the free housing and medical allowance
@The_Oblivion_Light
@The_Oblivion_Light 2 ай бұрын
I'm just a former trucker of 7 years. The impact of driving without sleep... Well, I'm pretty sure you heard at least 1 devastating truck accident in your life times. The one thing I did learn about all industries that involves heavy machinery is that they preach a big game of safety, but always pressure people to do things against the realm of safety and when the inevitable happens, they tend to throw everything on the driver/operator. Like you said down below, 12-18 hours... That is what jobs are turning into these days. Right now I am a commuter rail operator and they have this thing for certain schedules where they can keep you for 16 hours with 9 hours off and have you work for another up to 16 hours and it is legal per DOT guidelines. Its good money, but extremely unsafe and we did have someone who lost their life over 8 years ago working under these conditions.
@jennifermarlow.
@jennifermarlow. 2 ай бұрын
This is a big issue in Canada, and was brought to the forefront a few years ago, with a tragic accident. I would say that they haven't done much since, because the powers-that-be just don't care. As long as the politicians have their graft, and for those who are semi-honest, their PENSIONS, we will never have administrators (for that's all they are! including Prime Ministers and Presidents) that work for the common good.
@BlackPill-pu4vi
@BlackPill-pu4vi 2 ай бұрын
What was truck driving like before Jimmy Carter deregulated it? It seems like bad (even malevolent) industry practices flooded in after that.
@The_Oblivion_Light
@The_Oblivion_Light 2 ай бұрын
@BlackPill-pu4vi That is because the world is moving too fast. We sacrifice safety only for the end result of products and services, and when one f*** up happens, a liability is always held accountable even when that liability is pressured into doing something unsafe. Unsafe actions become habit forming as a norm, but again, when the time comes, the liability is thrown to the wolves. It's like that time between 2005-2008, there was a problem with salmonella in our produce, one most notibly with spinach and we still to have that issue popping up to date with that and other contaminants in our consumables. That is how fast we are moving. We will put stuff on the shelves and up to weeks later, that is when an announcement is made only after an X amount of people turn ill.
@Mochimaker333
@Mochimaker333 Ай бұрын
Genuinely sounds like we're still in the Medieval times
@pntbtr
@pntbtr Ай бұрын
amen! i work for a big company that has safety stuff they throw in your face daily, but then mandate 60 hours when the 'need' arises. they dont give a damn if people get hurt or die; as long as their pockets get fat and they dont have to worry about being sued because they show assinine 'safety' videos frequently to satisfy 'osha' requirements! and im convinced the company i work for has bought out more than one of them too!😡
@jennifermarlow.
@jennifermarlow. 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for telling this story. It recalled the Ocean Ranger, a rig here in eastern Canada, that sunk shortly after this when I worked for Mobil Oil. Many lives were lost, and some of the men who died were from the same small towns and families. Newfoundland was devastated. Offshore drilling is dangerous business.
@jazzisips9775
@jazzisips9775 8 күн бұрын
The autopsy reports and images don't show diver 1-3's bodies exploding or splattered. Outwardly they were mostly intact. The overall aftermath is TERRIBLE but a lot of channels ramp up the shock factor. Divers 1-3 didnt instantly turn to particles. Only diver 4 was torn apart and strewn all over. Rest in peace to all who passed, they did not deserve that
@TheGeezzer
@TheGeezzer 3 ай бұрын
Known as explosive decompression, instant millisecond death, those who died had no idea that they died!
@Colin_
@Colin_ 3 ай бұрын
Like oceangate.
@TheGeezzer
@TheGeezzer 3 ай бұрын
@@Colin_Yes I suppose the Titan was a subject of explosive decompression, with water instead of air. The crew had no idea that they perished, it remains with the eternal question...life after death? Then they _would_ know.
@dragondude9637
@dragondude9637 3 ай бұрын
I thought explosive decomposition was you burst like a balloon.
@cringeyidiotterry
@cringeyidiotterry 3 ай бұрын
Sadly, you can feel milliseconds: saying half of the word "Mississippi" takes less than one second.
@BeertjeRulez
@BeertjeRulez 3 ай бұрын
​@@TheGeezzerquite the opposite. In the case of Oceangate the capsule was at 1 ATM and the surrounding water at approx. 400 ATM. They first burned due to intense heat of compressed air and the crushed by the water.
@Antarath
@Antarath 3 ай бұрын
My dad was a sat. diver for 19 years. I had know idea how sat. diving worked back when I was a kid and I'm glad I didn't. Glad you liked my photo montages.
@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your story! I appreciate you being cool about the images used, I will add your name in the description!
@waitandhope
@waitandhope Ай бұрын
Wow
@drakkondarkspell
@drakkondarkspell 2 ай бұрын
I appreciate that you mention the images as being part of the report but did not show them. The thought of what happens is gruesome enough.
@bonaqua123
@bonaqua123 28 күн бұрын
Indeed. Having seen the pictures tho, I have to say the 3 guys that weren't sucked into the hole, looked quite normal aside from some skin discoloration. They weren't, as the video put it at 8:30 "unrecognizable" or some blobs of blood and fat. Just 3 relatively normal looking bodies. The one who got sucked in...yeah, looked exactly what you'd imagine.
@Camerondono
@Camerondono 11 күн бұрын
Im beyond thankful of these men and their sacrifice to make the whole industry safer, although it should have never happened... pray for their families
@jsparrowau
@jsparrowau 3 ай бұрын
That's messed. 20 days straight, in a tiny claustrophobic shell to sleep then going 90m under the ocean, working 18 hours per day. I would have a panic attack after like 2 hours.
@Visitwarriorbulliescom
@Visitwarriorbulliescom 3 ай бұрын
Just the though of its gives me panick attack
@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_
@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_ 3 ай бұрын
Weak genes 😂😂
@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_
@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_ 3 ай бұрын
​@@Visitwarriorbulliescomwhat a pussay 😂
@pigpuke
@pigpuke 3 ай бұрын
Yeah, you don't get a job like that without a basic psyc eval to weed out the people who don't work under pressure (no pun intended), have issues like claustrophobia, etc. Same thing for astronaughts, fighter pilots or any other other high-stress (mentally _and_ physically) jobs. Companies that _don't_ do this and just put "anyone anywhere 'cuz people can learn" have terrible track records because they get people killed.
@johnr2391
@johnr2391 2 ай бұрын
They don't make men like they used too.
@spicycorndog6119
@spicycorndog6119 3 ай бұрын
Man this brings me back the first time I did my researched about this horrifying tragic incident and getting traumatized for a week. May their brave souls rest in peace.
@Set4LifeYT
@Set4LifeYT 2 ай бұрын
My ad was for an underwater welding school 😂
@ToreDL87
@ToreDL87 Ай бұрын
Dang..
@j7ndominica051
@j7ndominica051 2 ай бұрын
The worst part of living inside the pressurized capsule is that there seems to be nowhere to go to the bathroom while another person is watching and smelling you.
@blacksmith67
@blacksmith67 3 ай бұрын
Studied this accident 20 years ago. Absolutely horrific way to go.
@cdvries
@cdvries 3 ай бұрын
I would prefer this way to go over waisting away in a hospital bed. At least people are talking about you 20 years after.
@tonywong8134
@tonywong8134 3 ай бұрын
They died instantly. The only one who suffered was the survivor.
@Oozaru85
@Oozaru85 2 ай бұрын
Horrific for the people who have to clean this mess. For the people who died: not that horrific, since they didn't even have time to realize what happened. They just went Boom! in an instance.
@cdvries
@cdvries 2 ай бұрын
@@Oozaru85 yes. only the friends family and loved ones feel pain.
@user-ih8qm5dy3l
@user-ih8qm5dy3l 2 ай бұрын
The lucky ones inside, the pressure so great they wouldn't feel any pain, it just be sudden unconscious and death as their bodies including brain explode. The poor bugga who was squeezed through the tiny gap of the door also would have died in about 2 seconds
@me-qg2mt
@me-qg2mt 3 ай бұрын
You mean 14.6 pounds per square INCH, not per square meter.
@matthewhaerr6203
@matthewhaerr6203 3 ай бұрын
Thank you!!!
@CJW0056
@CJW0056 3 ай бұрын
Knew something sounded weird there, lol
@toddslaughter2192
@toddslaughter2192 3 ай бұрын
Came here to say this! Not only is it wrong, it mixes imperial and SI units!
@OneMilian
@OneMilian 3 ай бұрын
I could cuddle with 14.6 Pounds per square meter
@user-ih8qm5dy3l
@user-ih8qm5dy3l 2 ай бұрын
My sister's home cooked overly under cooked rubbery meals are pure fear every per square inch of the plate 😳
@AllisonCRenee
@AllisonCRenee Ай бұрын
Just wanna say... I discovered you today. I hope you do as well as you deserve on your channel. Thanks for the videos!! They're HECKING awesome 💙💙
@barnabasmurphy8496
@barnabasmurphy8496 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for putting this on your KZfaq channel, i have learned a lot about what is going on in this video, and lot of as in this common chat have learned it as well, oil companies talk about safety, they never show their safetyness at work. People not expendable, they do their duties to get the work done right, and accidents like this happens, by not checking the connection cords and that door.
@Ninjadiver
@Ninjadiver 2 ай бұрын
"Isnt known for their patience" is the truest phrase of this video.
@counthypeula4095
@counthypeula4095 Ай бұрын
Typical corpos, telling the people who ACTUALLY DO THE JOB how they should do it, and at what speed.
@Godzillaminusone70
@Godzillaminusone70 Ай бұрын
@@counthypeula4095 well in defense oil and gas are VITAL for modern society even more so in the 80s no this does not justify them they are in the wrong for risking people's lives for an extra week or two.
@elizabethshaw4117
@elizabethshaw4117 2 ай бұрын
This is the best, clearest explanation I've ever watched for understanding the pressure changes that happen that deep under the water and how that affects the body.
@bennynortheast1328
@bennynortheast1328 2 ай бұрын
Just think about that “14.6lbs per square metre” for a second…
@Wesselkous
@Wesselkous 2 ай бұрын
yeah man true
@LuisDonado
@LuisDonado 2 ай бұрын
8:42 gets me sick to my stomach just listening to that detailed description.
@carlstenger5893
@carlstenger5893 2 ай бұрын
Wow! I had no idea just how horrible the incident was. Thanks for the video and the education.
@EverPaintP
@EverPaintP 3 ай бұрын
Used to work in industrial environment doing 14-16 hours every day. Doing weeks and months you get tired enough to not to even realize that you are tired. Once I made a 2 tons pallet nearly fell on me, it was just pure luck that a nearby colleague saw it and pushed me out of it's way. Nobody should be doing this many hours, it's just not healthy.
@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your story!
@IASP17
@IASP17 Ай бұрын
8 hours is maximum for me. Ill never work a job that requires me to work longer than 8. no amount of money can change my mind. I got family, I got friends, I got hobbies. I dont wanna spend 24 hours working and sleeping. what kind of a life is that?
@EverPaintP
@EverPaintP Ай бұрын
@@IASP17 I wrote a long essay as a reply but reading it a couple of times I decided not to send it. You are right, when you have family, stability, friends and getting older, you shouldn't do that but there are situations in life when it's either necessary or you have no choice but to hammer life and try to climb up the ladder.
@Tumbledweeb
@Tumbledweeb 3 ай бұрын
I've actually read the accident report on this incident. It had photos and everything of the deceased. Several of the photos looked like slabs of meat, and underneath the photo it would say stuff like "Part of the deceased's torso", and I'm looking at it like "How can you even tell?! And how can you tell this pile of meat from the pile of meat in that other photo?"
@user-ue3xb8tz1u
@user-ue3xb8tz1u 2 ай бұрын
They probably cooked it on the grill after words to find out.
@Tumbledweeb
@Tumbledweeb 2 ай бұрын
@@user-ue3xb8tz1u Delish!
@EvidentlyFire
@EvidentlyFire Ай бұрын
​@@user-ue3xb8tz1uyou must be 12
@us3rk1t30
@us3rk1t30 13 күн бұрын
​@@user-ue3xb8tz1u 😨
@sagittaria9566
@sagittaria9566 13 күн бұрын
Our body tissues are different throughout. Worst cast scenario they’d inspect the tissues of the body part found and identify it to belonging to one part of our body system or another.
@MondoBeno
@MondoBeno 13 күн бұрын
Working 18 hour ships all week is guaranteed to cause accidents. When I worked on a unionized construction site, we weren't allowed to work such long hours, but people still worked while sleep-deprived. Even if it didn't cause accidents, it still caused trouble. Problem-solving takes longer if you haven't slept properly.
@leftelementstudios
@leftelementstudios Ай бұрын
Heard this story plenty of tiimes and it still gives me chills.
@richardland9668
@richardland9668 3 ай бұрын
Can I just correct something it’s not a horrible death if you die instantly and without any knowledge of what’s happening.
@henrikmonkee
@henrikmonkee 3 ай бұрын
It could be horrible for the ones who saw it and understood what happened rather than the ones who died, despite dying instantly it wasn't a beautiful death neither.
@saschaberger7201
@saschaberger7201 3 ай бұрын
ye he was more so talkin bout the people that had to go down there and see that, but i agree with you
@talllala
@talllala 3 ай бұрын
That's what I said. Even the poor guy that got sucked into the door wouldn't have known anything as it was over in a split second. Horrible certainly, to read about though!
@6z0
@6z0 3 ай бұрын
It’s still a horrible death, in the matter that they did, regardless if they felt it or not.
@87dramarama
@87dramarama 3 ай бұрын
Bull
@Mike-01234
@Mike-01234 3 ай бұрын
I once saw a neurologist to get an MRI after a bump on the head. I talked to her about scuba diving she told me when she was in medical school they were learning to read MRI images. They reviewed several MRI's images of saturation diver's brains they looked like someone had shrunken their brains after several years of saturation diving. The odd thing about saturation diving is the oxygen level in the gas is very low like 2% amazing how little you need at that depth.
@klausstock8020
@klausstock8020 3 ай бұрын
The percentage is low, but the actual amount (by mass) of oxygen you need (and which is present) is the same.
@HydeKills
@HydeKills 2 ай бұрын
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1035367/
@brendalg4
@brendalg4 2 ай бұрын
What are the symptoms of having their brain shrunk? Is it just smaller because of the pressure or are they brain damaged?
@klausstock8020
@klausstock8020 2 ай бұрын
@@brendalg4 Damage, i'd say. If it was just the pressure, it would expand back to regular size. Excessive drinking can also cause the brain to shrink. Like, when you switch to denatured alcohol because it's cheaper.
@LeverPhile
@LeverPhile 2 ай бұрын
​@@klausstock8020 Exactly ... percentage is low because the pressure is insanely high.
@heru-deshet359
@heru-deshet359 2 ай бұрын
I agree that noise is a detrimental factor in understanding orders when underwater. I did some diving training in the Navy with diving suit and helmet in the 1980s and I always had the hardest time understanding commands coming through the helmet's intercom system. I found I wasn't alone as many other of my shipmate's had the same problems. This was while spending only 30 to 40 minutes in 50 feet of water. God bless the poor souls who lost their lives in this.
@MONKMIKE
@MONKMIKE Ай бұрын
Godspeed to you gentleman on your Journey back Home !! Reside in Peace. 💙
@RedVRCC
@RedVRCC 2 ай бұрын
tbh i wouldnt want to be that one survivor. not just the injuries but just imagine the mental scarring from what he probably saw.
@tappajaav
@tappajaav 2 ай бұрын
Doubt he was in state to really see anything just after the accident.
@AnontheGOAT
@AnontheGOAT Ай бұрын
He was probably knocked unconscious just as quickly as his fellow counterparts died.
@meisbigepiccoolstrongpro
@meisbigepiccoolstrongpro Ай бұрын
my friend's dad worked as a diver under similar working conditions, he was the sole survivor of a horrible incident at his workplace. i used to look up to the guy and hoped to work with him one day but not anymore.
@yusufjaffer7047
@yusufjaffer7047 Ай бұрын
Imagine working like this then having to give half of your pay to the IRS who just sat on their asses and did nothing.
@saintkenny9296
@saintkenny9296 2 ай бұрын
As a former (SS) Submarine Sailor I remember part of our training was as deep as 400 ft deep we were told we could possibly escape the submarine and were told we let air out a little bit at a time on the way up so our lungs 🫁 wouldn’t expand too much on the way up. What a crock. We’d all have the bends so bad even at 300 ft and on up we’d most likely never survive even with the pressure chamber above when we surfaced.
@pepeshadilay
@pepeshadilay 2 ай бұрын
Yeah a free ascent of more than 100 feet with zero dive gear is low survival
@ciocanul
@ciocanul 2 ай бұрын
It actually depends. If the sub imploded violently, everybody would most probably pass out and drown. If you escaped from a pressurized escape air lock, there is a chance that you could swim to the surface in about three minutes, only slightly bent if you spent less than a minute in the airlock. The air in your lungs would expand about ten times, so it would be a continuous exhalation, without the need to inhale. However, that is only if you don't pass out due to oxygen toxicity, nitrogen narcosis or ruptured ear drums if you fail to equalize while in the airlock. So yes, chances of survival from such depth are pretty slim.
@user-yb5cn3np5q
@user-yb5cn3np5q 2 ай бұрын
I didn't know SS had submarines.
@Slash1066
@Slash1066 2 ай бұрын
I thought submarines operated at 1 bar and the hull resisted the pressure. Are the interiors pressurised?
@krashd
@krashd 2 ай бұрын
@@Slash1066 They do operate at 1 bar, he's talking shit about getting the bends.
@polarfroge
@polarfroge 3 ай бұрын
It's absolutely insane any corporations were attempting operations in such a way. This seemed inevitable with such overworking being so common.
@cremebrulee4759
@cremebrulee4759 2 ай бұрын
A large number of them still do. They are willing to take the risk and hope nothing goes wrong.
@MrMarinus18
@MrMarinus18 2 ай бұрын
This wasn't a corporation though, this was the state oil company of Norway. It shows how putting profits over lives isn't exclusive to capitalism. Non-unionized workers are just pawns of the powerful, this has been the case since the beginning of history.
@dreisiglps2451
@dreisiglps2451 7 сағат бұрын
Your Social Contract at work.
@dreisiglps2451
@dreisiglps2451 7 сағат бұрын
​@@MrMarinus18So you mean a Communist problem and not a Capitalist one?
@MrMarinus18
@MrMarinus18 5 сағат бұрын
@@dreisiglps2451 Not really. Just the elite not caring about the lower classes. That isn't unique to capitalism or communism.
@DeadDad1
@DeadDad1 Ай бұрын
Wow! What a story! Very well put together! Excellent work!!
@midnightblue1874
@midnightblue1874 Ай бұрын
Man, imagine transition from this realm to another in a split of a second...quite an experience.
@RinaCh
@RinaCh 3 ай бұрын
Working 18 hours in underwater?? this is crazy
@TheRocco96
@TheRocco96 3 ай бұрын
Why not work 18 hours? They're confined to the pressurized environment. Working the normal 8 hours a day would mean they spent more than twice as long confined in that pressurized room.
@iSkyline1
@iSkyline1 3 ай бұрын
@@TheRocco96 You'd work more effectively if you at least get 8 hours of sleep per day and a couple hours to rest and eat. So maybe 12 hours of work max. Working 18 hours straight with 3 hours of sleep is asking for trouble.
@antoniobabb1938
@antoniobabb1938 3 ай бұрын
Probably was fatigued too
@smugfrog8111
@smugfrog8111 2 ай бұрын
@@TheRocco96 I can't imagine working 8 hours a day, every day. Where do you find time to live? How do you have hobbies, or interests, or even energy to do anything but sleep in preparation for the next day? People that can do that are truly admirable to me because I simply cannot. I made it 3 months at such a job before I had a minor mental breakdown and literally ran out of the building. I found something else thankfully but god damn. Just reading "work 8 hours" gave me a mild anxiety attack.
@Hunne2303
@Hunne2303 2 ай бұрын
@@smugfrog8111you are present 8 hours...you don´t work 8 hours straight. in an office at least...I had whole shifts of 8,9 or even 12 hours without anything to do and that is really hard to endure
@danrodrigues3531
@danrodrigues3531 3 ай бұрын
I would not want to see the aftermath of this accident. That is something that you could never unsee.
@TucsonDude
@TucsonDude 2 ай бұрын
You can still find the images of the deceased. Not super bad, but bad enough.
@MrOshirinoana
@MrOshirinoana 2 ай бұрын
The guy still had on his watch@@TucsonDude
@Justin.Martyr
@Justin.Martyr 2 ай бұрын
*I can NEVER UN-See the ELection of DonaLd Trump!!!!*
@ikigai47
@ikigai47 2 ай бұрын
@@Justin.Martyr - No one cares
@FormerFofcaStudentAlt
@FormerFofcaStudentAlt Ай бұрын
The autopsy report of crammond was something else. It was just so messed up you couldn’t really tell what you were seeing which somehow made it less gruesome
@flymykim
@flymykim 2 ай бұрын
When the narrator said "north sea..." at 0:26, I already knew it was gonna be horrible
@wastedwarrior1045
@wastedwarrior1045 Ай бұрын
Love your Channel Keep’em Coming 🤩👌🏻
@aRomanSoldier
@aRomanSoldier 3 ай бұрын
Only 3 hours of sleep? You are just asking for an accident to happen.
@farmerfarmerer3847
@farmerfarmerer3847 2 ай бұрын
I was on rigs late 80' & 90's as a service hand. During well completion or well testing many companies did not have the manpower to work shifts.
@lewisdepatserlord4737
@lewisdepatserlord4737 3 ай бұрын
Oil industries having outdated equipment is just a given, why install new equipment when you could be making money right?
@ww748
@ww748 2 ай бұрын
Wrong. The diving equipment was only 8 years old at the time of the accident, it wasn't outdated for that time. The accident happened over 40 years ago, the entire culture around oilfield safety has changed a lot since then. I know, I was there for the before and after. Is it perfect now? Hardly, but then neither are many other industries which expose workers to dangerous situations. Today's diving equipment is far safer of course, just as today's commercial aircraft are far safer than they were 40 years ago. Why? Because people had to die to expose shortcomings in equipment and procedures, forcing governmental agencies to change regulations applicable to the particular industries. Like it or not, it's the way the world works.
@dahitmann
@dahitmann 2 ай бұрын
It's the same reason you might see a traffic light installed at an intersection that needed it. Sometimes, it's because a person (or several) died there first. New safety regulations and procedures are more often than not written with the blood of those that inspired it. @@ww748
@DanielDaniel1
@DanielDaniel1 2 күн бұрын
30-45k a month in the 80’s is absolutely wild.
@warrenpeas
@warrenpeas 2 ай бұрын
never put your self in any position that could turn into a nightmare.
@BitSmythe
@BitSmythe 3 ай бұрын
3:30 We were taught (shallow dives); always ascend slower than the slowest air bubbles.
@jonm4501
@jonm4501 2 ай бұрын
That's to prevent an air embolism.
@BitSmythe
@BitSmythe 3 ай бұрын
8:30 *While gruesome, he did not SUFFER at all. It was virtually instantaneous. Much faster than human response time to pain.*
@dennisbland9616
@dennisbland9616 Ай бұрын
This story is incredibly sad and heartbreaking.i can only hope this accident will lead to changes that will prevent such a terrible tragedy from ever happening again
@vuong_lenguyen
@vuong_lenguyen Ай бұрын
30/40k salary was huge back in the 1980s. Average salary then was around 8k. Which highlights the amount of risk these guys were risking for their jobs. This accident was truly unfortunate, but it has led to many changes in regulation to make it safer, but still just as risky. Condolences to their families.
@MISSMADISONMEDIA
@MISSMADISONMEDIA Ай бұрын
That’s PER MONTH
@raymondingram2539
@raymondingram2539 3 ай бұрын
Out of all the dangerous jobs out there this is definitely the scariest.
@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Definitely!
@joem3999
@joem3999 3 ай бұрын
Logging is the most dangerous job on the planet by 70 percent. Next runner up is commercial fisherman. I've done both. Going into that underwater ship of theirs sounds terrifying though.
@raymondingram2539
@raymondingram2539 3 ай бұрын
@@joem3999 I've worked as a commercial fisherman and it is very dangerous but I would say that this is more dangerous because if something goes wrong your a dead man, you can be killed as a commercial fisherman but most of the time it's just injuries, working in those depths there are so many things that can go wrong and when it does your a dead man, all these jobs are dangerous but I would say that this one is the scariest because no one is going to hear you scream.
@playerx2006
@playerx2006 2 ай бұрын
pays 50K a month though
@joem3999
@joem3999 2 ай бұрын
@@charlesrichter3854 Mining makes the top ten at least. Look it up.
@hotrodmercury3941
@hotrodmercury3941 3 ай бұрын
Being tired really causes those small mistakes you can't protect yourself from in a job like that. For example, I drove 16 hours straight. I was working a job that abused me and considered me not under the DOT rules. I was so tired, I was driving on autopilot. Yet at the same time, I was going around curves and turning on my turn signal as if I was turning. A byproduct of my racing days, it still showed how tired I was. Now imagine being so tired and having to handle that decompression, where one slight slip up could kill you? That small mistake doesn't seem so small anymore.
@danielgilliland48
@danielgilliland48 Ай бұрын
10:38 it always takes a horrific accident to occur before safety issues are dealt with. Profits before safety, no matter what management says
@SuperBigblue19
@SuperBigblue19 2 ай бұрын
I was a Navy Diver when this happened, and we heard about it clear over in Diego Garcia. We tended subs and I got out of the Navy before training for saturation diving would have happened. I never did civilian diving because I was starting a family, and the physical effects of long-term deep diving just didn't appeal to me even though the pay is good..
@JazZy-pn4ms
@JazZy-pn4ms 2 ай бұрын
Although I heard many version of this tragic event, but this channel deliver it clearly with the informative graphic animation. As a guy who work in O&G field, I never want to met with such incident happen in front of my eyes. Scary. Story well done. New subscriber here.
@Luccaluke
@Luccaluke 2 ай бұрын
"But what happened to the divers was way worse than slowly succumbing to injuries or being crippled for life!" "Oh no, what happened to them?" "They died instantly, whithout any pain!" "..." "Never even saw their terrible fate comming" "..." "Essentially just blinked out of existence, no pain, no fear, nothing!" "... ok"
@Rick-the-Swift
@Rick-the-Swift 14 күн бұрын
As he also said, "there's no way this can be confirmed." I have doubts they were just blinked out of existence. It's possible I suppose, but I've also heard a lot of stories about divers who have survived being decompressed extremely quickly. The will to survive can be extreme itself. There are also many types of animals that can survive such extreme fluctuations, so I wouldn't assume these guys all went from all good to instantly gone. There was probably a second or two of their bodies feeling the you-know-what as it hit the fan.
@Saint_Medusa
@Saint_Medusa 10 күн бұрын
Because dying is worst than beinf crippled for life as one include DEATH but hey if youre not scared of death good for you
@shawnmendrek3544
@shawnmendrek3544 10 күн бұрын
These men are brave men, diving into the unknown dark ocean with just your light. I will say, I feel bad for the guy who survived more, he has to live with surviving now. Which can sound good, but it is going to a long road mentally for him.
@billponderosa88
@billponderosa88 3 ай бұрын
I've always heard this story. I never knew it happened above water. That's even crazier
@joeproyaknow
@joeproyaknow 2 ай бұрын
It didn't...
@marietighe6328
@marietighe6328 2 ай бұрын
???
@alanhernandez4038
@alanhernandez4038 3 ай бұрын
here before viral,love the vids man keep it up, you put so much work in them 👍👍
@1Enclave
@1Enclave 2 ай бұрын
This is definitely a "Hey Apple" moment
@KBAMAries
@KBAMAries 16 күн бұрын
I saw the pictures of the diver who was sucked through the small opening, although low quality, you can tell how gruesome it was, something that you think you could only see in horror movies. Rip.
@brandonearly267
@brandonearly267 3 ай бұрын
Rest in peace gentleman.
@MrSpaceRatt
@MrSpaceRatt 2 ай бұрын
The guy wasn't "sucked" through. He was PUSHED through. Which is pretty much what happens anytime there is a differential in pressure.
@blank4142
@blank4142 2 ай бұрын
yeah, it's not hard to find the aftermath of that decompression. first image, and I don't know what I was expecting but upon seeing it I am not surprised. that sounds brutal, but thankfully it is painless.
@ThatOneMule
@ThatOneMule 3 ай бұрын
Recently found tgis channel and I am hooked! Your story telling, accurate information and visuals are *chef's kiss* perfect!
@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! A lot of time and fine tuning goes into these. Thank you for the recognition 😇
@Nightweaver1
@Nightweaver1 2 ай бұрын
Still the single most horrifying on-the-job accident I've ever heard of.
@timberwolfmountaineer873
@timberwolfmountaineer873 2 ай бұрын
I get what you are saying and i agree, it is one of the most brutal work accidents. but Chernobyl takes the tragic "cake" hopefully forever.
@miguelcarunchod.1493
@miguelcarunchod.1493 2 ай бұрын
What happened to a japanese nuclear plant worker, Hishashi Ouchi, was much worse.
@krellin
@krellin 2 ай бұрын
very very well made content, underrated channel reminds me of Lemmino
@TheRogerhill1234
@TheRogerhill1234 3 ай бұрын
No electronic safely interlocks? No indicator lights at the clamp? Sounds like a lawsuit
@Robbe902
@Robbe902 2 ай бұрын
After watching this video and reading the accident report and the introductory description of how and in what condition T.Hellevik's remains were brought to the forensic medicine, your stomach immediately turns again. The only consolation: they didn't notice anything about it. The description “instant death” takes on a whole new dimension. 😞
@ashraile
@ashraile 2 ай бұрын
And 300 feet is nothing. Now imagine the Oceangate sub at 11,000 ft.
@BlobB-kn9ww
@BlobB-kn9ww 2 ай бұрын
Different type of accident.
@Misguidedchild0351
@Misguidedchild0351 22 күн бұрын
I’ve worked 14 to 18 hour days for months on end pouring concrete for ConocoPhillips, Exxon and Chevron in their refineries. It was exhausting. The environment makes one complacent, but we followed every safety standard. Injuries happened often and near misses happened daily. I couldn’t imagine being in their situation. May they rest in peace and may their families grief be relieved….
@jin8684
@jin8684 3 ай бұрын
This channel really deserves some recognition. Well researched and outstanding narration. Better than most documentary channels I've seen.
@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I will continue to do my absolute best and keep improving where I can! Love your profile picture btw 😇
@jin8684
@jin8684 3 ай бұрын
​@@Storified1❤️
@DerekDumas
@DerekDumas 3 ай бұрын
6:11 The sound of the door closing decompressed my right ear, Thanks!
@chutcentral
@chutcentral Ай бұрын
Narration is excellent on this. Quality narrator voice too
@axe.jakan.
@axe.jakan. 9 күн бұрын
🎶 sucked through the hole, and you're to blame. you give vents a bad name. 🎶
@juniorcosio2498
@juniorcosio2498 3 ай бұрын
Just discovered this channel and this is a great video. Loved the information. This channel definitely deserves more subscribers
@Storified1
@Storified1 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Means a lot.
@peach7210
@peach7210 3 ай бұрын
Once you know this story, it never leaves you.
@77DAZ
@77DAZ 2 ай бұрын
This video is insane, I take my hat off to all those that contributed
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