

Apart from being absolutely fucking grotesque, it’s also a pretty fascinating look at the sheer power generated by these events. The Anchor Winch Monitoring System installed onboard Dolphin Byford by Monitor Systems is designed to monitor anchor tension, chain length, payout speed and. The Byford Dolphin accident remains one of the most harrowing diving disasters of all time, with the official report revealing the brave men who lost their lives exploded due to a sudden change in pressure caused by a faulty airlock. Byford Dolphin is what immediately came to mind for me.

On November 5, 1983, five men died in horrific circumstances when an airlock failure caused their bodies to quite literally burst open deep below the surface of the North Sea as they worked on the Frigg Gas Field, the world's largest and deepest offshore gas field. It drilled seasonally for various companies in the United Kingdom, Danish, and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. They might be separated by metres of water but they have one goal - get the job done and get home.īut while staying on the seabed for long periods of time can reduce the divers' chances of falling ill with the bends, there is a lot that can go horribly wrong 508ft beneath the surface. Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. The divers and their highly trained assistants - known as dive tenders - often work intense 16-hour days as hundreds of their colleagues work in comparative safety in the huge, main rig above. Did Martin Saunders survive The sole survivor, Martin Saunders was left with devastating injuries.
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'Most radioactive man' kept alive for 83 harrowing days as skin melted and he 'cried blood' Where is the Byford Dolphin now The current position of BYFORD DOLPHIN is in North Sea with coordinates 58.11460 / 7.04561 as reported on 14:03 by AIS to our vessel tracker app.Brit gran 'raised by monkeys in jungle after kidnap ordeal' - and never saw family again.The enormous Byford Dolphin oil rig is dragged to a drilling location in the North Sea by a tug boat in 2006 (Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images) Read More Related Articles
