If ever there were a job where it SHOULD be done by robots and only robots, this is the one.

Gotta love how governments conduct their own investigations and find themselves "not guilty." Despite having all the money in the world to compensate a family for their loss, they still conclude that "it wasn't our fault."

When your body's full of helium, you can't talk with people, but you can have sensational conversations with cetaceans.

Here’s me thinking who would even want to do that as a job but then the guy said they could earn up to 1,400 dollars a day and now I’m out here practicing my under water swimming technique

You neglect to mention one salient point: when Crammond released the clamps, the circular door of the chamber was half-open. Hellevik wasn't just decompressed, he was blown through the crescent-shaped opening.

Just think; divers didn’t know this at one point and had to literally experiment to find out what happens to the body.

The embodiment of the saying: "If anything goes wrong, you won't even know it."

So basically it was the most gruesome for the witnesses, not the victims, considering the death was instantaneous and painless.

"Imagine living in your sealed world. Unable to escape, without certain death." Sounds like the life of Simon's writers in his basement.

Every time Simon signs off with "I'm not gonna ask whether you enjoyed that video," my answer is, "yes. I did enjoy that video."

No amount of money could have ever convinced me to take this horrible fucking job, but I respect the people who took it.

Imagine my disappointment when this story turned out NOT to be about murderous dolphins.

By far the most “gruesome “ death I’ve seen was that of Jose Melena. He worked at a tuna factory and was cleaning the inside of one of the industrial sized ovens when his coworker mistakenly locked him inside. The oven was loaded with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and turned on. He was found 2 hours later after being cooked alive with the tuna.

My uncle was a bomb disposal diver in the royal navy, then after his service went on to saturation diving. I'll never forget as a kid, seeing him before and after his weeks away on a job - he was a giant of a man, huge big strong healthy guy... every time he got back from a job he looked like the life had been sucked out of him- drawn, weak, frail. Can't be good for you at all. He only worked about 4 months of every year as the money was so good but it definitely took its toll on him

"why did you quit?"

For anyone here from the Titan incident please note: The Titan and the Byford Dolphin incidents are actually not the same physical process it's more like the opposite.

I'm an insurance adjuster who handled a multiple death claim because of an explosion at a Valero oil refinery in I think it was Washington State. As I recall it was 7 people who were killed with 2 of those 7 about a week later in the hospital. The accident was totally preventable because they used a piece of equipment a decade or more past it's intended life. What surprised me was the "don't give a dam" attitude among the oil company people, the government bureaucrats ... about the needless loss of 7 lives? So when Simon says the investigation here was itself a cover-up and it took 25 years for the survivors to collect I believe it.

Bad job: saturation diver

"most gruesome death imaginable"

The fact that these men died instantly and without pain doesn’t make this any more of a “relief.” This is still a horrific tragedy and a gruesome (beyond words) way to die.