Bad job: saturation diver Worse job: saturation diver who had to clean up the Byford Dolphin after this happened and got to see what the corpses looked like
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman yep do not recommend. Also a story on this topic on the YT channel Horror Stories has very gruesome photos. Horrible. Thankfully the deaths were instantaneous.
1200 a day? I would. Remove all the human error from dying eventually things become safer. And if you mess up badly you won't be around to know so whatever.
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
l went through all the training in commercial dive school (Santa Barbara) but went into the manufacturing end...at the company that designs and builds the helmets for the industry.
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
Saturation divers generally breathe Heliox. Nitrogen isn’t used below 50m, TBH there is far less air diving undertaken in the North Sea these days. It’s an extremely well paid job. 28 days in sat will earn a diver around £40k these days, in the North Sea. You’ll need to finance all your training yourself, so by the time you’ve paid for that you’ll be out of pocket to the tune of around £60k without any guarantee you’ll ever see the inside of a sat chamber. Hiring a diving vessel is an expensive business so the contracts tend to be short or lump sum. Work is sporadic and the season short for most divers. 2-3 months is the most work you could reasonably expect in a year and the competition for those jobs is fierce. A lot more work is being undertaken by ROVs that continue to be come more and more technically sophisticated. From a safety perspective saturation diving is extremely well regulated in the North Sea, these days.
@@martyzielinski2469 I would not say good. Awesomely awful or horrific... probably. I think there was another incident where someone cut off the oxygen to the diver's living quarters and they died. (Lots of things happen that do not make the news or is public knowledge.) My dad was in Offshore Drilling so I was around the people that worked on rigs when I was younger.
As a kid I always thought it would be cool to be a deep diver or an astronaut. Then I learned about anatomy and how are bodies are specifically designed for land and ONLY land
Not quite true we are perfectly adapted to free dive to decent depths. We have something called a marine mammal reflex - when our cheeks come into contact with cold water, our heart rate automatically starts to reduce, allowing us to hold our breath for longer because we're using less oxygen. Pro freedivers have also tapped into this and can use the mechanism to concentrate their blood in their torso and away from their limbs (also much like marine mammals). As well as this, it's believed that the event of your hands and feet shrivelling if you spend time in water, is a mecanism to help us climb more easily on rocks.
Being an astronaut is not that bad and curiously enough is actually safer than saturation diving, since there is only a diference of one atmosphere and it's actually the inside of your suit that is higher on pressure, not the outside, which means that if it breaks you don't explode into pieces, you just lose oxygen Also if the vehicle is pierced is not like it implodes like in a submarine, you can patch a hole in a space station with your finger, it's that easy
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.
Even if you were perfectly safe in another chamber...just...imagine witnessing another human literally EXPLODE in front of your eyes...if you don’t get ptsd from that, then count your lucky stars...
straight up thought a dolphin murked a guy stealing an air tank or something. in monterey near the aquarium a group of otters will zip round dropping shells onto you then yoink your breather and play with the bubbles. adorable and terrifying the first few times haha
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.
Something I've noticed about nearly every one of these horrific accidents is that they were all entirely preventable, but profit would've been effected. Funny how there's never enough in the budget for safety, but plenty for ensuing lawsuits...
I assume you’re referring to decompression sickness, in the 1800’s before anyone ever reported having it there were scientists hypothesizing about it. technically yea people had to just find out but we didnt go in blind
Well, when the aqualung was invented French divers set out to determine what was the maximum safe depth to dive while wearing one. One diver literally dove while another guy would measure how deep he went and when the diver suffered from narcosis and drowned at around 120 meters they determined that the maximum depth to dive with compressed air is around 90 meters (today we know nitrogen narcosis actually occurs at a depth around 30 meters).
There were some animal experiments done with pressurization and decompression but not very many, and decompression has been banned in any animal research for a very long time, for obvious reasons. I don’t recall any animal research done to the extent of explosive decompression.
Alot of unknowns like that were carried out during WWII. Nazi's were already sewing ppl together so the US funded it a bit. I guess they were just as curious. True story. TRust government... Consume....CONFORM. Yea fck that
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. The Byford Dolphin incident was a rapid decompression. The Titan imploded or you could say it was a "compression" (not decompression). You can view it like this: The pressure inside the decompression chamber in the Byford Dolphin incident did go extremely rapid from 9 to 1 bar. Everything INSIDE the chamber wanted to go OUTSIDE of it. And alot of stuff inside your body wants to EXPAND. The pressure inside the titan did go extremely rapid from 1 bar to ~400 bar. Everything OUTSIDE the vessel wanted to go INSIDE. And alot of stuff inside your body gets CRUSHED. Both processes are instant deaths, faster than the brain can react, though the titan incident is probably even more brutal.
But in both incidents, gas wants to get out of the body very quickly which has mostly the same effect: Titan: Body is compressed (implosion), the air in for example the lungs is pushed out of the torso so forcefully that the torso ruptures in many places to let the air out. Byford Dolphin: Pressure inside body is suddenly higher than outside the body, the air in for example the lungs wants to expand so forcefully that the torso ruptures in many places to let the air out.
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."
As always. They're why the founding fathers called them "a necessary evil at best". That's on their best day. Best day they ever had. Still just a necessary evil. Which is why we're taking all their power away. The more they print, the higher bitcoin goes. Until one day, wouldja lookit that, everywhere accepts bitcoin. It's worth too much not to, and too many people are using it. Now the government's power is diminished. Thankfully
@@BirdieRumia That doesn't somehow make anything better or relieve anyone of guilt. They're just as guilty and they too, will be put out of business one day. The high tech 3D printers are gonna kill most corporations one day. Maybe 25 years from now but it will happen. Thankfully
@@enermaxstephens1051 no I'm just saying it's wierd to single out "governments"as the main ones that don't compensate victims and that often claim corporations are not at fault in investigations, when if corporations had their way they'd never be investigated in the first place at all. it's like blaming the courts not the murderer for the death of a murder victim. like, corruption is a problem but at least governments run investigations that SOMETIMES find the problem. I.e. air travel would be crash-o-rama & cover-up-city if corporations were left to their own devices.
My dad worked down the legs of oils rigs in the North Sea as a safety engineer. He almost died more than once...it's a hard life offshore, but good wages for someone with only an apprenticeship and no formal qualifications. We had a better childhood for it he was a brave & good dad xx
@@KashNoK this is more dangerous then fighting in a war at least what you could get get injured and go home or at least have some amount of safety and control of your situation now picture this your in a tub monitored 24/7 your down time is technically not down time because your stuck in a tube knowing at any moment..........if you or someone else messes up your body will either A be violently ripped to shreds or B you blood fat and skin will be instantly deep fried and theirs nothing you can do about it
Wrong, if humans could've reached the BP well, that well would have been closed off in weeks. Humans are much better at dealing with variables. And trust me, commercial diving is full of unpredictable variables
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. What’s even more infuriating is that the men and the sole survivor never got any compensation for their losses. The fact that no one talks about this tragedy is also frustrating.
It's some relief but it's still crazy gruesome. Gruesome =/= painful in my eyes. If there's barely anything left of you to recover after you die I'd still call it pretty damn gruesome.
If it helps, the USN dive systems had far better safety, mostly involving interlocks and doors and latches that simply couldn't be opened if the pressure wasn't equalized, than this rig had. This wasn't human error: it was a design failure to anticipate an obvious issue that should have resulted in the designing company getting the pants sued off of them. Hell, even the two man rule was ignored. In diving, or dive related operations, you always have two people involved. I make all the connections on my gear, and someone else checks them. I assemble my rebreather and someone else checks it. I compute my dive tables and decompression stops, and someone else checks them. Sensing a theme? Why there weren't two people assigned to that door mystifies me. It's an obvious major point of failure that results in a total dive team loss. Hell, the capsule shouldn't have even been able to be released until that door was closed, if normal design criteria were followed. This was a system that was designed to fail, that eventually did what it was designed to do. Sure, the proximate cause was human error, but we know humans screw up; that's the whole point of the Bible for God's sake. If you design a system that is that easy to screw up, you don't get to sit around and go, "Oh gee, I wonder how they got that wrong!"
i was in training at a colege near la to go into the navy civil divers. basically civies that do non war related navy diver stuff like fixing ship hulls all the way to aiding in emergencies. i stopped the classes with my first face to face with a shark bigger than me. wake up call. "im in his world. i have 2 10 inch knives. im dead if he gets mad"
@@MrKeserian interesting comment. That’s why I like the construction unions in my home of Sydney, they are very zealous in detecting these errors and slamming the builders who cut corners and use inferior techniques and gear
My brother was an SAT welder and the group's medic since he had EMT experience. It paid VERY well, he liked the work, but his wife hated losing him for 2-4 weeks. He quit and is a nurse now.
It's nuts to think your dad probably spent more time underwater than a lot of people do at say work or home respectively. That's like going to a whole other planet.
I think this is certainly a _messy_ way to go, but there’s just no way they even knew they were dying; they were just there one second and gone the next. And I think that makes it a relatively nice way to go compared to some other, slower, processes.
Tom Clancy book "without remorse" features an "interrogation" wherein a person was put into a pressure chamber and slowly taken to depth. Then when questioned, if he gave the wrong answer, pressure was lowered rapidly causing pain. It was...gruesome.
Oh my god this was such an interesting comment. Do you really say “yes I did enjoy the video.” Thats so not vapid or banal in any way. Thanks for sharing. I got to go tell all my friends. “Yes I did enjoy the video.” Brilliant.
My old high school buddy died while working on an oil platform near Brunei. He was a specialized deep sea diver. This is one of the most dangerous jobs in the entire world.
I tell my son that high paying jobs are difficult (requiring exceptional skill or training,) dangerous, or unpleasant and that the highest paying jobs often have two of those characteristics or even all three. Diving is what I most often think of when I say "all three."
@@dallasbaiton3234 I think they deserve 10 times the amount or more. Such a dangerous job. And what about after effects when they are older? You couldn't pay me enough to do it. Cheers mate
@Brian Garrow, what year? My dad was a telecommunications engineer contracted in Brunei between 1980 and 2000 and would often be out on one of the oil rigs.
This is why a lot of things that are called "human error" are really a fault of bad design. There should be no way to unclamp the thing while it is pressurized.
No shit, typical bean counters and corner cutting peices of shit always at the route cause. Then they blame one poor worker as if its all thier fault. Human error is billy tripping and falling off the curb into traffic. Criminal negligence is not bothering to put in failsafes and safties because its guna prevent some POS from getting a nicer car.
@@rabidbeaver167 While it is bad design most of the time, that isn't always the case. Sometimes accidents are caused by human error. Best example is traffic accidents
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.
My friend became a under water welder after college, he did great for a few years until something went horribly wrong and he was killed. Never found out what actually happened to him but they said that kind of work was extremely dangerous.
You sissies I once dove into the worlds deepest bodies of water from the worlds tallest cliff and I managed to touch the bottom and make it to the surface without some pansy ass dive bell. Back in my day, we walked up hill five miles to school, and home. When we wanted water, we had to conduct warfare with wolves and other forest demons. And if you don’t know, now you know, you know
Damn... imagine that. Decompressing so fast that your body literally just explodes in a spray of bloody red visceral chunks... That's some Final Destination horror right there.
I have been an avid Scuba diver and instructor most of my adult life. I certified my grandson at age 16. He was very much a natural. He attended the “collage of oceaneering” and became a commercial diver about 15 yrs ago now. A very successful career for him. He won’t touch Sat diving. As a family man with two kids it’s not worth it.
Became a scuba diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became an advanced diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a Master diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a diving instructor and I thought I knew about diving. Became a commercial diver and I thought about diving. Did surface mixed gas diving and I thought I knew about diving. Became a saturation diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a saturation supervisor and I thought I knew about diving. It's when I worked with hyperbaric doctors that I really started to learn about the many facets of hyperbaric science. Still learning and realizing that it can be safe but it's usually human error that get's people in trouble.
@@georgecurious2248 where are you working at buddy I want to get my dmt and work in a chamber but it's hard finding a hospital with a chamber where I'm at
@@rosesweetcharlotte seconds like an hour, no way. However, I can tell you from almost choking to death that not breathing for around about 1.5-2 minutes can feel like 5 or 10 minutes when you're panicking.
@Tuperwear their bodies blew apart before their nervous system could register what was going on. There's a measured lag time for signals to go from your body to the brain, and it's likely said nerves were disconnected before those signals ever made it there. It's like the victims of submarine implosions: it happens too fast for the nerves to get the signal up to the brain.
Dang, basically they were inflated like a balloon until they burst from the tension all in the span of less than a second. I feel real sorry for the guy who had to clean that up.
You will have to cover this accident and how it compares to the just confirmed OceanGate Submersible imploding at the depths of Titanic (3600m or 12,795 ft (approx. 2.5 miles down). For comparison, the Byford Dolphin Accident happened at 9 atmospheres, the Titan submersible was 386 atmospheres of pressure... Very scary to think how fast something like this would happen...
You can't compare these two incidents like that. The Byford Dolphin incident was a rapid decompression. The Titan imploded or you could say it was a "compression" (not decompression). You can view it like this: The pressure inside the decompression chamber in the Byford Dolphin incident did go extremely rapid from 9 to 1 bar. The pressure inside the titan did go extremely rapid from 1 bar to 400 bar. Both processes are instant deaths, faster than the brain can react, though the titan incident is probably even more brutal.
A childhood buddy of mine did this work for a while for an offshore oil company. He only did it for a few years but made well north of $300k per year during those years. He said he lost close to 15 years off his life expectancy due to him working in this profession. He’s still slightly mentally affected by it, similar to soldiers returning with PTSD.
@Fuzzy Butkus pretty sure they tell the divers before they sign the contract they will experience health damage. Otherwise they can get sued like the guys in the video could.
@Fuzzy Butkus it’s called medical science? The affects of deep diving for prolonged periods are well documented and these guys literally live for months at a time in what is essentially a Winnebago built to stay underwater.
@Fuzzy Butkus Saturation diving involves living in high-pressure environments for weeks on end to prevent getting Decompression sickness and allowing them to work their shifts at depth. Your body isn't designed for that so things like bone necrosis, where there is death of a portion of the bone that is thought to be caused by blockage of the blood vessels by a bubble of nitrogen/helium coming out of solution, in divers is common. You don't find a lot of old commercial divers and now most of the work is done by ROVs
i dunno, it would probably not be so good for you family / loved ones. not when there are other ways to die instantly without knowing - like dying in your sleep lol
Honestly there's probably worse. I feel like this is in the same ball park as bomb defusal. It's a painless death if you screw up and the aftermath/cleanup just isn't your problem. This is probably a "worst death to witness" more than anything
Kind of a case of 'gruesome' vs 'worst' I suppose. The most visceral deaths I've seen were due to gunshot or car crash, far quicker than hypo/hyper thermia. Interesting metric though.
Imagine massive doses of radiation. At first, your skin begins to itch and burn like a sunburn. Depending on how bad, this can last as little as a few hours or as much as a couple of days. Then you bleed. And bleed and bleed and bleed. It pours out of every orifice in your body and opens new ones cause that bad sunburn you had? Not so much like a sunburn now. Your flesh literally starts falling off of your bones in chunks. Your organs begin liquifying and you actually vomit out your digestive system piece at a time until your body can no longer physically vomit, then you just choke on the viscera. This can last *FOR ALMOST 2 WEEKS* At the end, your "body" is little more than a cracked, brittle skeleton with rotting bits of meat dripping off of it. Your eyes, tongue, genitals, hair, fingernails, internal organs and skin are all gone. It is like being swallowed by fire for 2 weeks. This happened to a guy in Japan who saved most of the island's population decades ago during what could've been the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever. But he sacrificed himself and, while I don't have the exact details of what he did to stop a meltdown, he was exposed to incalculable amounts of radiation. By the end, he was begging the doctors to let him die.
Here's a gruesome death. This happened in my local area a few years ago. A sugar cane harvester was being used to harvest mass amounts of sugar cane meanwhile many groups of labor workers would pick up the remains that the harvester wasn't able to harvest. The day was very hot and humid and one of the workers was assumed to be sleeping among the sugar cane in the shade (pretty stupid I guess). And the driver of the harvester didn't see him and harvested his body into grounds in less than 2 seconds. The inside of the harvester was completely painted in pure blood. The most identifiable remains were a few 1 cubic inch pieces of flesh. The person was identified only by subtracting all of the other workers there that day and finding who was missing. Yeah I didn't sleep well when I heard about that
Or this: a landscaper was pruning trees in my town and using a wood chipper on the branches. You can probably guess what happened. One of his workers somehow got tangled up in a branch and was pulled into the machine before anyone knew what had happened. The worker was the landscaper's son. They actually posted a photo in the local paper of this poor man sitting on the curb after the incident with a bewildered look on his face. I still cannot fathom why someone sent a photographer to the scene or why they felt the need to publish that picture
If we’re sharing stories of gruesome deaths, I have one to add that happened in my city. A few years ago, a man was attempting to quickly cross the city’s light rail train tracks, but tripped and fell onto the tracks right in front of the train, right as it was pulling out of the station. It was nighttime, and the train operator didn’t see the man. He was dragged underneath the train for three blocks until it pulled into the next station. Not sure when exactly he died, but folks in the apartment building located halfway between the two stops could hear screaming as the train went by. So, it unfortunately wasn’t instantaneous.
I'll too share a gruesome death. So it happened when I was running home back from a forest after my days work. While running back I saw these people in the distance and they were chatting about something, had weapons in their arms and were waving a flag for some reason. I just assumed they were random hunters and so I carried on and went right back to my wood cabin. The next morning I wake up and I hear someone walking around my cabin. I think nothing of it, but then when I come outside, there's sudently no one there, so I turn around to get back inside when I see a creeper who's about to blow up inside my cabin and I hit him with my diamond sword that has knockback II on it and the creeper just flies away further into my cabin next to my sitting cat named Tom. Both of them died, taking away a half of my cabin with them. I cried for about a day after the incident.
As a kid in the late 60's early 70's, I distinctly remember learning of the highest paid profession availed to those working with their hands; $100 an hour for deep water welding. "Piece of cake"... 50yrs later I discover this on YT
I was training for underwater welding. My uncle owned a business, he passed away on the job due to a failure in one of his lines. I stopped immediately and changed careers.
Diver Hellevik, who was in the trunk between the capsule and the decompression chamber when the clamp let go, was forced thru the partially open hatch and, as one writer put it, "reduced to pot roast." The name for the phenomenon that took the lives of the 5 men - which Simon doesn't use - is _explosive decompression._
Ask a Mortician described a death on her channel that has taken my top spot for most gruesome death imaginable. This poor man fell down a manhole in NYC where some work was being done, someone had taken away the protective covering. The reason it was being worked on was that there was an issue with a leaking steam pipe, so the area where he fell was full of scalding hot steam. This poor man remained alive and aware, slowly cooking to death for HOURS while crews struggled to get him out. He eventually succumbed and perished. An autopsy revealed that he had died of steam burns and scalding on 60 percent of his body. Truly horrifying.
Yep and after failing multiple times to remove him, they all just basically had to sit around and listen to the echoed wailings and screams of pain until his untimely demise.
@@BernStoogin Thatbmust be horrible. I once got scalded by 145C high pressure steam. Just a fraction of a second and not even enough to leave a wound but it was insanely painful. The humidity also transfers the heat well after I took my hand out of the steam I still had near boiling water on my hand and wiping doesn't help much you have to hold it under cool water, that's stops the pain instantly if you haven't been burnt too fast. There's industries that work with 600C high pressure steam. If one of those lines bursts next to you that's quick but extremely painful.
I think Dr. Melinek talks about that case. She worked for the office of the medical examiner in NYC and talks about many of the deaths during 9/11 and the post 9/11 period while she was training.
I mean, if the most gruesome deaths you can imagine is crucifixion, being fed to lions, beheading, or hanging... You haven't been hanging around true horror RUclips channels for long.
@@ao1778 neither have you, if you want to see what painful is I’d recommend searching rekt on /b... for example the sinaloa cartel pumps you full with drugs so you don’t die immediately and start skinning your face alive.. quite a way to go wouldn’t you say?
Very good explanation of both the diving technique and the dangers. A novelist once wrote about a fictitious first use of a diving suit in which the man below died quickly, but horribly, because the system lacked a backflow-preventer in the air line. With local bigwigs looking on at the marvelous new technology for underwater salvage, somebody got annoyed at the loud air compressor and turned it off. Almost instantly the air line pressure fell to zero, and the air in the highly-pressurized diving suit blew its entire contents up the single air line like a cannon going off. The crowd was sprayed with a noxious red mixture, which they later discovered was the poor diver, whose eighteen inch wide body including a few of its hard bits had been forced by extreme air pressure upwards through a two inch diameter air hose, at great speed. Now, that account was fiction, so I never learned if such a sudden drop in pressure from multiple atmospheres to one atmosphere could blow a human apart. You have now assured me it could happen. Damn, that is terrible. I wonder how much money the corporation saved by leaving off the necessary safety interlocks? I was a safety manager for ten years, and I've seen many cases of such false economy in he world of workplace safety.
I read a story about a young man who ran away at the age of 10 he came upon a cabin he wanted to sleep in it but the door was locked. Instead of breaking the window he shimmied down the chimney where they eventually found his body. I can imagine the poor kid screaming for help until he succumbed to his death. He died because he was a good kid at heart and didn't want to damage the cabin and that bothers me as well. R.I.P to that kid. That always comes to my mind when I hear somebody says the worst way to die.
Since you made me regret reading this, I'm gonna leave a similar story here. There's a neighbour I knew who was in an accident. He was riding his motorcycle on a rainy day and fell into a drain and broke his leg. His body was found in the morning when people go out looking for him. Bloody scratch marks were found all over the drain walls, his fingers were bloody and nails broken. Apparently he tried to crawl out by himself but failed when nobody heard him screaming for help. He died because of blood loss.
@@ms.chuisin7727 Poor souls. I hope there is a heaven after death just so people who suffer get their happiness. I'd go to hell just for people like that to have a happy ending.
@@edwardhumphreys8660 Actually, it would be very unlikely for this to happen in space, unless the inside of the vessel was overpressurized for some reason. The reason this happened is because of the instant change from 9 atmospheres of pressure to just 1. Space, being a vacuum, has an atmosphere of 0, and the inside of a spaceship is generally going to be 1 atmosphere, so the pressure change between 1 and 0 is nowhere near strong enough to cause the same result (this is also why a spaceship cannot double as a submarine, because it doesn't have the proper reinforcements installed to withstand such an insane amount of pressure. For reference, soda cans are often pressurized to 2-3 atmospheres above the ambient pressure, so cracking open a soda can is more exciting than cracking open a spaceship (well, depending on the size of the hole, at least. A big hole on a ship _will_ suck you out, if you're close enough).
I’m so excited to spend the rest of my life NEVER SATURATION DIVING 🤷🏻♀️ edit: jfc, thanks for the likes, subscribe to my channel if you feel like it lmao??? what does one say in these situations????
I’m a professional diver, mainly working on boats, ships and search and recovery, I never really go below 30 meters, so I do occasionally have to worry about nitrogen and decompression, however I don’t have to worry about being atomized with instantaneous decompression from 9 atmospheres. In short... I, like yourself, am very excited about never saturation diving.
I hear you. I just couldn't take the pressure. It's definitely not an oversaturated industry. You also never know when one of your coworkers is just going to fly off the handle and explode. One thing is for sure: you have to be pretty chill to handle this kind of work. I'm also sure the people who have previously worked in this industry want to destroy every Alvin and the Chipmunks CD with a sledgehammer.
Shit, if you can get into it - & Physically Handle it, (for, say at least 5yrs,) - & it not take Too Terribly Long to Learn the Specialized Diving Skills, once already knowing SCUBA, I'd *Seriously* Consider It! I'm even One Step Ahead, as I know the TWO BIGGEST THINGS, in Diving, that You have to Learn - & I'm willing to Bet Anything it's *Exponentially So,* in Sat. Diving - Which is A: *Constant* "In the Moment" Awareness of Yourself, Your Surroundings, & Your Equipment; & MOST IMPORTANTLY, *Always keep a Level Head,* no Matter What Goes Wrong, (To the Point that It Becomes ANY Dive Instructor’s *Most* Repeated Phrase,) because of Lesson B. (& B. for " *BIGGEST* FUCKING THING TO *ALWAYS* REMEMBER") is: *If You Panic, You Die!*] But yeah, @ $1500/day, & even only working 180 Days a Year, - & I'm sure you could pick up Extra Shifts, to make it more than 180days/yr, - in only 5yrs, you've made close to $1.5 Million; (& that's not taking into Account the Consultant, & Instructor, Work you could be Very Well-Paid for, after you stop doing Sat. Diving for a Living!) So with My Investment Knowledge/Vision, after just 5yrs I could Retire! Fuck, not like, when you're On the Job there's much to Spend $ on, either! Not @ 100Meters Down Below the Waves, LOL!
@@wormhole91 it takes years to get the big money. I have a friend who's a sat diver and makes around 300k-400k a year, but it took him around 10 years to land this job. You gotta do a course, then work as an air diver for a few years to gain some experience and start making some networking. Then do a sat diver course and apply jobs and most likely you will start with a few jobs here and there until they trust you and you become full time. It is not an overnight thing like most people think that you do a course and next month you r a sat diver. Plus there are times where there r too many sat divers than jobs (like pandemic, financial crisis, oil in less demand etc) and you r more likely to be jobless during these periods. So yeah, it is not so black and white like ppl think it is.
My brother’s friend does this and he makes it sound like no big deal, but when you describe it here it sounds absolutely terrifying. He does drink a lot. But then, he’s hardly the only one.
I had an uncle who worked on Sealab. It was enormously dangerous. He served as salvage diver in Vietnam. Then worked off the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. He was one tough individual.
I'd never heard of this before. That was absolutely terrible, like how you'd imagine dying in a horror movie. It's good to know that the family members got something out of it in the end. I'll never complain about multiple safety measures on devices again. Thank you!
While financial compensation is considered to be "something " it will not even begin to assuage the suffering and grief of the families involved. How do you put a price tag on the smile your child gices you as you wake him for her up for the first day of summer vacation ? How much is that hug you share with your wife just because she means so much to you ? That those people responsible for those deaths should be held liable for any and all loss incurred by the family, it should be noted quite plainly, that in no way does this absolve the other side of any blame. Unfortunately, that kind of justice will only be dispensed in the Final Day of Judgement. In the end, those families who had their loved ones ripped from their arms will have to endure. My prayers for their grief are offered up for them.
You know as "gruesome" as it is, this actually sounds like a pretty ideal way to go. One second you are sitting in your pod business as usual; next second your entire body has exploded from the vascularity outward. What are we imagining here? 250 milliseconds of trauma before the sum total of damage to the central nervous system has literally turned it into flying pink paste and goo? You'd literally be dead before you felt anything! Okay sure, maybe death by lethal injection would be even "less painful." BUT . . . the stress building up to the moment of the injection could be pretty awful and even once the sedative started to kick in there could be quite a bit of anxiety and horror. I'd say just dying instantly without any warning at all is preferable.
If you've ever been in a lot of pain, you'll realize that its really not that bad overall. It's only a quick second before the body adjusts to it and just get use to it. The muscles will cause the other pain youll feel but it stops rather quickly.
@@brandoncaldwell95 Try having a large kidney stone. Your body does not "adjust" to that pain. It is constant, relentless agony that only gets worse and worse, without relief. Kidney stones sound benign, but I assure you they can easily exceed the pain threshold that a human body can withstand.
@@yeetusdeletus7039 1400 a day STARTING. around 180k per year due to human body and such{cant do it day after day} and after 3 years youll generally make 200k-240k according to my instructor who did it before becoming an engineering and dive instructor
Stated as if, "My Money is much More Important than human life" doesn't exist amongst the Corporate World. Corporations count on people dying. It's factored into the "Cost of doing business". Depending on the size of the Corporation, let's say the Gas & Oil industry, up to 20 deaths per year is perfectly acceptable.
@@g3o5d corporations is basically like our bodies, I lose a cell, no big deal. except humans are their cells. moral of story, don't work for them if you don't want to be disposable.
I talked with a retired deep saturation diver that ran a Wound Care Center. He said it took 8 to 10 days to decompress and now he has many problems related to the 5 years he did that job. Total regret.
yeah, honestly the process to decompress and the symptoms from all that nitrogen in you sounded as bad as the accident. Definitely would not take such a job no matter the money. Maybe if I was already terminal and the pay would help my family after I'm gone.
That moment when you realize that Simon remembered one of his lost channels. Is Simon the one really trapped in the basement and its Danny making him read all the scripts?
I read into this a little bit more. He’s ok. He gets stale bread and toilet water once a day. Give a lm actor an inch and they’ll take the directors seat
"While we're proud to finally introduce our A.I. system to the world he will already be familiar to decades of RUclips users as Simon 'The Knowledge' Whistler."
This incident comes up whenever discussing what would happen to a person jettisoned into space without a spacesuit and why they wouldn't explode or inflate like a balloon as some imagine. Human skin can easily withstand a pressure difference of one atmosphere. Nine, not so much.
pretty much, space is largely problematic due to temperature and how your internal fluids, particularly the lungs, react to the absence of pressure, the lack of air just helps to kill you before the really unpleasant stuff happens cause i cant imagine being freeze dried would be a fun sensation
@@nickolaswilcox425 It’s not really temperature issues either, it’s not really hot or cold in space, except in direct sunlight and heat radiation. You’d suffocate long before you felt the effects of heat/cold/“temperature”.
Not hot or cold in space..? Okay so I had to look that up and apparently it's on average about 10 degrees Celsius close to Earth which actually sounds like a nice spring day... Interesting. It's barely above absolute zero in more distant reaches though, which I'd have a harder time saying isn't cold. So I guess it depends on where exactly you get ejected. Either way I suppose the lack of oxygen and possible lung collapse would be of more concern than the temperature.
@@TheMistyBlueLounge that sums up my understanding as well, temperature being an issue is conditional but in the cases that it is then it mostly impacts the condition of your corpse afterward, the biggest problem being respiratory trauma in response to ~0 psi and then the actual suffocation finishes the job. on the bright side you wont suffer long if at all since your gonna blackout rather quickly
@@charleslindsey6789 Wild orcas have a human kill count of 0, other species of dolphin, namely the bottlenose, are more likely to rape you while you drown than save you if you're in trouble, contrary to what hollywood and seaworld depict.
I've dived for many years and have known some sat divers. One retired diver said out of his graduating class all those years ago, out of 30 people in his class, 5 were still alive
@@colecooper5836 I work with 2 divers well into theyre late 60s dudes run circles around me in the water. And there are a million more just like them I dony need to hear that bs that diving is horrible on your body
Ironic this pops on my feed right after they found the Titan submersible remains. I feel for the families. But I am stunned anyone thought it was actually safe at those depths.
A family friend used to be a saturation diver and they would spend 6 weeks working and 2 weeks decompressing on the surface. The stories he’s told are a great reason to never do that type of work.
Watched a documentary of workers/researchers living in a small habitat deep underwater days or a week or 2. A bathroom was made About 20-30 meters away I think. It was just an anchored dome big enough for their head and shoulders, where they could breathe and a light to see. Had to swim there. They went naked and did their business with their head in the dome. It’s pitch black, alone, far, far down. They hated that. Not knowing what creature was there the dark as they defecated, exposed and naked. Some had very scary experiences too. Shining a light snd seeing some insanely scary looking animals. They had to do that a lot and what animals are attracted to feces etc... Yeah that was freaky. And cool. It’s on RUclips somewhere.
@@klincecum it believe it was a RUclips documentary about underwater research facilities where they live in a habitat for weeks at a time, very deep doing research. They would go out and document sealife. Go into their larger habitat and sleep and so on.... maybe on Prime? It was professionally done. Sorry I don’t remember the name. I watch a ton of docs.
Saturation diving is used much less in the oil industry these days than were used in the 70s and 80s. Their routine jobs from rigs have been engineered out so that they can mostly be done by Remotely Operated Vehicles and surface automation. Most rigs, including Byford Dolphin, heavily modernised in the intervening years, have their own ROVs on board now.
After reading many comments, the thought then occurred to me that I had never even heard of this type of diving and mostly because of the many different types and sizes of R.O.E's I've seen doing the dangerously deep work. It does "seem" kind of an archaic (no disrespect to those who still do it) practice considering today's safer alternatives...AND that it scares me stiff just thinking about it! :)
Agree. I work in the subsea o&g and I have heard of only 1 instance of using saturation divers in the last 7 years (at around 200m). ROVs have been the norm for decades now.
@@simonecasolo3122 yes work offshore myself, includng a few trips on this rig, and saturation diving is now done by specialist dive support vessels mainly.
As an offshore helicopter pilot, the support vessels which deploy and manage the ROVs are the bane of my existence lol. Thanks to Murphy’s Law, they’re always parked under our approach path and right by the helideck. And with the ROV deployed, they can’t just move off to allow for an optimum approach for us. If it’s a tall rig, no biggie. If it’s not though, makes for an interesting final approach lol.
I am watching this video aboard a Saturation Diving Vessel (DPDSV) in the Gulf of Mexico right now. This is a cautionary tale that you hear in Dive School nowadays.
My uncle is a deep sea sat diver off the coast and has some incredible stories. One time his bell partner (who you're stuck in the tiny bell with for looong periods of time) quit smoking and was on Chantix. Well one of the rare side effects is suicidal thoughts/psychosis and of course it happened to his partner pretty suddenly while they were down in the bell. My uncle ended up having to tie him up to try to calm him down until they could come up. Also a few fun shark attack stories
Why on earth would you let the divers control the doors them self's after putting them in such a stressful atmosphere and then blame their deaths on them?
@@belindacrammond7553 Hi Belinda… Yes, in fact it is me! How wonderful to hear from you.. I hope the family is all doing well, I think I last spoke to Ruth about 10 years ago. Belinda, you can find me on FB ….. look for the ice cream cone! Meanwhile, send my best regards to everyone. 👍
From 1978 thru 1987 I worked offshore oil fields in the Gulf Of Mexico. I left because the company I worked for got bought out and the new ownership offered us positions in Alaska if we wanted to keep our jobs. I declined and moved on to a different career. Everything about working offshore was dangerous, from flying in helicopters in bad weather to the many hand-traps and foot-falls located around the rig. They had a saying that you could tell how long someone had worked offshore by how many fingers they had left! I knew divers and had great respect for the courage those guys had. I'm sure in the 40 years since I worked in that field it's gotten a lot safer.....but it's still a tough job that takes a special kind of person. RIP to those divers.☮️
I was an A Operator for Devon Energy (contract) in the G.o.m. We lost a diver after Katrina or Rita knocked one of our platforms down. He was cutting apart the sunken platform and must've cut into a gas pocket
I once, while traveling in Chile, met a man who worked on the same thing as the victim described in the video. He said that it was a very dangerous job but he got paid really well.
I've always thought this incident was the most gruesome thing I'd heard of. I can't imagine how horrifying it must have been to see your colleagues scattered around like they were blown apart.
There are many people involved. It's not like he is spending 20 hours a day seven days a week doing this all by himself. He will be just fine. In fact the will probably start more channels. Lol.
I'm pretty sure he just gets paid to host the videos and reads from a script. There's probably a whole team of researchers and editors that he works with. Either that or he's an AI that's decided to take over RUclips.
That the families of the divers weren't immediately compensated for their lives from a horrific, completely preventable accident is probably proof that we live in the worst timeline. "Sorry, one of our employees fucked up and it caused your loved one to instantly grenade, but that's how it goes!"
People were burned alive because they had ideas or were smart in the past... if you ever check out history you will be pretty damn happy you're here today and not 2000 years ago..
Being offshore, a contracted company for many employees, and other plausible deniability allow for corporations who own these things to limit or outright reduce anyyyyy legal liability even though as employers or contractors they have a DUTY to provide and protect their employees. And where the rig is also determines where they can sue. All these factors allow corporations to get away from catastrophic injury lawsuits. It’s shitty but the company was waitingggggg it out for a individual to be found responsible by CSB or some other Investigative body for oil rig catastrophes instead of themselves making it so they have to pay the LEAST amount out to the effected loved ones or employees/contractors.
At least it would have been almost instant and largely painless as a way to go. I think it would be worse if it hurt a lot and took several minutes to die. It should never have happened, nor been allowed to happen, but instant and painless is much better than several minutes of agony.
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Bad job: saturation diver
Worse job: saturation diver who had to clean up the Byford Dolphin after this happened and got to see what the corpses looked like
There are photos on the web. Very gruesome.
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman yep do not recommend. Also a story on this topic on the YT channel Horror Stories has very gruesome photos. Horrible. Thankfully the deaths were instantaneous.
@@jennzifur yeah I just looked it up
rip
imma go watch some cat videos now
Apparently there was also cctv footage
After hearing the description why would you want to look at the photos?
No amount of money could have ever convinced me to take this horrible fucking job, but I respect the people who took it.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
meanwhile pewdipie play games and gain more money
@@vaclav222 so does niki minaj twerking booties
@@vaclav222 you say that like it’s his fault that he makes a lot of money lol
1200 a day? I would. Remove all the human error from dying eventually things become safer. And if you mess up badly you won't be around to know so whatever.
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
Funny 😆
"I would do anything for love - but I won't do that..."
There's a reason it pays so well. I just couldn't do it.
l went through all the training in commercial dive school (Santa Barbara) but went into the manufacturing end...at the company that designs and builds the helmets for the industry.
Not a funny comment
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
Poor guy. That's a hard life indeed. A robotic one of lethal efficiency and no joy...and that's without the pressure and chemical atmosphere
Sad situation with your uncle 😢😢
Saturation divers generally breathe Heliox. Nitrogen isn’t used below 50m, TBH there is far less air diving undertaken in the North Sea these days. It’s an extremely well paid job. 28 days in sat will earn a diver around £40k these days, in the North Sea. You’ll need to finance all your training yourself, so by the time you’ve paid for that you’ll be out of pocket to the tune of around £60k without any guarantee you’ll ever see the inside of a sat chamber. Hiring a diving vessel is an expensive business so the contracts tend to be short or lump sum. Work is sporadic and the season short for most divers. 2-3 months is the most work you could reasonably expect in a year and the competition for those jobs is fierce. A lot more work is being undertaken by ROVs that continue to be come more and more technically sophisticated. From a safety perspective saturation diving is extremely well regulated in the North Sea, these days.
Soooooo
The greatest winner was his wife as she collected all the wins and none of the L of his job....smart woman
@@apocratos0174men not try not to villianize women challenge (impossible) (please touch grass)
The embodiment of the saying: "If anything goes wrong, you won't even know it."
BLAT! Clean up in cylinder two. The divers just s'ploded!
@@exexpat11 good......
@@martyzielinski2469 I would not say good. Awesomely awful or horrific... probably. I think there was another incident where someone cut off the oxygen to the diver's living quarters and they died. (Lots of things happen that do not make the news or is public knowledge.) My dad was in Offshore Drilling so I was around the people that worked on rigs when I was younger.
More like the 'disembodiment' of the divers, giving meaning to the phrase..."If anything goes wrong, you won't know what hit you!"
@@exexpat11 -i was complementing “clean up in aisle two”....
As a kid I always thought it would be cool to be a deep diver or an astronaut. Then I learned about anatomy and how are bodies are specifically designed for land and ONLY land
Try telling that to Gundam fans
I'll die doing what I like best then
Not quite true we are perfectly adapted to free dive to decent depths. We have something called a marine mammal reflex - when our cheeks come into contact with cold water, our heart rate automatically starts to reduce, allowing us to hold our breath for longer because we're using less oxygen. Pro freedivers have also tapped into this and can use the mechanism to concentrate their blood in their torso and away from their limbs (also much like marine mammals). As well as this, it's believed that the event of your hands and feet shrivelling if you spend time in water, is a mecanism to help us climb more easily on rocks.
@@rayadoingles what about the shrivelled goolies suffered by Brits swimming in our cold water?
Being an astronaut is not that bad and curiously enough is actually safer than saturation diving, since there is only a diference of one atmosphere and it's actually the inside of your suit that is higher on pressure, not the outside, which means that if it breaks you don't explode into pieces, you just lose oxygen
Also if the vehicle is pierced is not like it implodes like in a submarine, you can patch a hole in a space station with your finger, it's that easy
"Imagine living in your sealed world. Unable to escape, without certain death." Sounds like the life of Simon's writers in his basement.
Sounds like a world caught in a grip of a pandemic. 😉
Sounds like my uncles basement
Sounds like "One" by Metallica
Edit: The song is based on a story called Johnny Got His Gun
@@wireworks4252 that movie can legit give you PTSD
@@EddieLeal covid is a far cry from certain death for the vast majority of people.
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.
Oh my fucking god…
@@ANAND-nk5sz hi
I recall that: Good ol Bumblebee Tuna! Now with human bits.
So, did they have to throw that tuna away?
@@maximvanmelckebeke7925 do they throw away Chicken Nuggets with fingerparts in it?
The only silver lining is; from their perspective death was instantaneous. Those who cleaned it up however ... probably have PTSD for life.
Traumatic incidents don’t always cause ptsd, thankfully.
@@Sunset553 they did say probably have ptsd, not definitely does haha
@@Sunset553 I just hope they have therapy programs for those that do end up suffering ptsd from these incidents, yknow?
@@Charlie-yv3ib yes, I understand.
Even if you were perfectly safe in another chamber...just...imagine witnessing another human literally EXPLODE in front of your eyes...if you don’t get ptsd from that, then count your lucky stars...
"why did you quit?"
"I couldnt take the pressure"
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freddie mercury be like
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@@lisa438321 l e t m e o u t
This small comment thread totally made my day 🤣🤣
Imagine my disappointment when this story turned out NOT to be about murderous dolphins.
@Hugh Jaanus - No need to get crabby about it! 🦀
this reply section is getting a bit fishy
jotaro
straight up thought a dolphin murked a guy stealing an air tank or something. in monterey near the aquarium a group of otters will zip round dropping shells onto you then yoink your breather and play with the bubbles. adorable and terrifying the first few times haha
When you click on a link just for the halibut!
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.
Something I've noticed about nearly every one of these horrific accidents is that they were all entirely preventable, but profit would've been effected. Funny how there's never enough in the budget for safety, but plenty for ensuing lawsuits...
When your body's full of helium, you can't talk with people, but you can have sensational conversations with cetaceans.
@Rabbi Noah Kitty x2
Not the crab people!
nouseforaname Cetaceans, not crustaceans
*reads title*
“Yep, 3am is the perfect time to watch this”
2am here PST
@@marytieger5143
11am or would have been... just watched this mid evening.
2:39am for me
Yeah me too ✋.
Wow, exactly 3am for me too.
Just think; divers didn’t know this at one point and had to literally experiment to find out what happens to the body.
I assume you’re referring to decompression sickness, in the 1800’s before anyone ever reported having it there were scientists hypothesizing about it. technically yea people had to just find out but we didnt go in blind
Well, when the aqualung was invented French divers set out to determine what was the maximum safe depth to dive while wearing one. One diver literally dove while another guy would measure how deep he went and when the diver suffered from narcosis and drowned at around 120 meters they determined that the maximum depth to dive with compressed air is around 90 meters (today we know nitrogen narcosis actually occurs at a depth around 30 meters).
There were some animal experiments done with pressurization and decompression but not very many, and decompression has been banned in any animal research for a very long time, for obvious reasons. I don’t recall any animal research done to the extent of explosive decompression.
Japanese female divers got that on lock.
Alot of unknowns like that were carried out during WWII. Nazi's were already sewing ppl together so the US funded it a bit. I guess they were just as curious. True story. TRust government... Consume....CONFORM. Yea fck that
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.
The Byford Dolphin incident was a rapid decompression.
The Titan imploded or you could say it was a "compression" (not decompression).
You can view it like this: The pressure inside the decompression chamber in the Byford Dolphin incident did go extremely rapid from 9 to 1 bar. Everything INSIDE the chamber wanted to go OUTSIDE of it. And alot of stuff inside your body wants to EXPAND.
The pressure inside the titan did go extremely rapid from 1 bar to ~400 bar. Everything OUTSIDE the vessel wanted to go INSIDE. And alot of stuff inside your body gets CRUSHED.
Both processes are instant deaths, faster than the brain can react, though the titan incident is probably even more brutal.
thank you. I was searching for some explanation on what a sub implosion looks like.
Good comment. Plenty are getting the processes in these 2 incidents confused.
Thank for the explanation 🙏
But in both incidents, gas wants to get out of the body very quickly which has mostly the same effect:
Titan: Body is compressed (implosion), the air in for example the lungs is pushed out of the torso so forcefully that the torso ruptures in many places to let the air out.
Byford Dolphin: Pressure inside body is suddenly higher than outside the body, the air in for example the lungs wants to expand so forcefully that the torso ruptures in many places to let the air out.
Gracias
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."
As always. They're why the founding fathers called them "a necessary evil at best". That's on their best day. Best day they ever had. Still just a necessary evil. Which is why we're taking all their power away. The more they print, the higher bitcoin goes. Until one day, wouldja lookit that, everywhere accepts bitcoin. It's worth too much not to, and too many people are using it. Now the government's power is diminished. Thankfully
Reminds me of the NFL "investigations". They hire the investigator themselves then ofc no guilty
I mean corporations do the exact same thing, so....
@@BirdieRumia That doesn't somehow make anything better or relieve anyone of guilt. They're just as guilty and they too, will be put out of business one day. The high tech 3D printers are gonna kill most corporations one day. Maybe 25 years from now but it will happen. Thankfully
@@enermaxstephens1051 no I'm just saying it's wierd to single out "governments"as the main ones that don't compensate victims and that often claim corporations are not at fault in investigations, when if corporations had their way they'd never be investigated in the first place at all. it's like blaming the courts not the murderer for the death of a murder victim. like, corruption is a problem but at least governments run investigations that SOMETIMES find the problem. I.e. air travel would be crash-o-rama & cover-up-city if corporations were left to their own devices.
My dad worked down the legs of oils rigs in the North Sea as a safety engineer. He almost died more than once...it's a hard life offshore, but good wages for someone with only an apprenticeship and no formal qualifications. We had a better childhood for it he was a brave & good dad xx
Damn, this seems just as dangerous as fighting a war. Hope y'all doing alright now.
Yes, he was! I hope he made it through okay, and the rest of the family too.
@@KashNoK this is more dangerous then fighting in a war at least what you could get get injured and go home or at least have some amount of safety and control of your situation now picture this your in a tub monitored 24/7 your down time is technically not down time because your stuck in a tube knowing at any moment..........if you or someone else messes up your body will either A be violently ripped to shreds or B you blood fat and skin will be instantly deep fried and theirs nothing you can do about it
God Bless your Dad. Good man. Made a positive difference in the world. You are one of them.
@jilly G Was that inside the concrete gravity legs, typical of most of the Brent Field? A long way to climb to safety if there's an alarm.
If ever there were a job where it SHOULD be done by robots and only robots, this is the one.
Can’t wait for robots to demand human rights
I operate underwater robots. (ROVs)
@Dman Clem How so?
@@zenithlyncadet8984yrah a robot activist
Wrong, if humans could've reached the BP well, that well would have been closed off in weeks. Humans are much better at dealing with variables. And trust me, commercial diving is full of unpredictable variables
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.
What’s even more infuriating is that the men and the sole survivor never got any compensation for their losses. The fact that no one talks about this tragedy is also frustrating.
It can be both.
Horrific, yet relieving to know that event itself was nearly instantaneous and painless.
It can be both.
It's some relief but it's still crazy gruesome. Gruesome =/= painful in my eyes. If there's barely anything left of you to recover after you die I'd still call it pretty damn gruesome.
My dad was a saturation diver for the Navy’s experimental dive unit. Thank god I never knew it was this dangerous! Luckily he retired with no issues!
If it helps, the USN dive systems had far better safety, mostly involving interlocks and doors and latches that simply couldn't be opened if the pressure wasn't equalized, than this rig had. This wasn't human error: it was a design failure to anticipate an obvious issue that should have resulted in the designing company getting the pants sued off of them.
Hell, even the two man rule was ignored. In diving, or dive related operations, you always have two people involved. I make all the connections on my gear, and someone else checks them. I assemble my rebreather and someone else checks it. I compute my dive tables and decompression stops, and someone else checks them. Sensing a theme?
Why there weren't two people assigned to that door mystifies me. It's an obvious major point of failure that results in a total dive team loss. Hell, the capsule shouldn't have even been able to be released until that door was closed, if normal design criteria were followed.
This was a system that was designed to fail, that eventually did what it was designed to do. Sure, the proximate cause was human error, but we know humans screw up; that's the whole point of the Bible for God's sake. If you design a system that is that easy to screw up, you don't get to sit around and go, "Oh gee, I wonder how they got that wrong!"
i was in training at a colege near la to go into the navy civil divers. basically civies that do non war related navy diver stuff like fixing ship hulls all the way to aiding in emergencies. i stopped the classes with my first face to face with a shark bigger than me. wake up call. "im in his world. i have 2 10 inch knives. im dead if he gets mad"
@@MrKeserian interesting comment. That’s why I like the construction unions in my home of Sydney, they are very zealous in detecting these errors and slamming the builders who cut corners and use inferior techniques and gear
My brother was an SAT welder and the group's medic since he had EMT experience. It paid VERY well, he liked the work, but his wife hated losing him for 2-4 weeks. He quit and is a nurse now.
It's nuts to think your dad probably spent more time underwater than a lot of people do at say work or home respectively. That's like going to a whole other planet.
He described those deaths like how Gordon Ramsay describes food
He described them like David Attenborough in Our World.
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‘I can still hear squidward telling spongebob to FUCK OFF’
"most gruesome death imaginable"
Hisashi ouchi with his 83 day death from extreme radiation poisoning:
No pain medication either
@@dikbutkis7843 wym? he was given enormous amounts of morphine but that didnt do shit for the pain he was having
@@BloodTM I stand corrected.
I was going to say that its a shame
Thats not gruesome
I think this is certainly a _messy_ way to go, but there’s just no way they even knew they were dying; they were just there one second and gone the next. And I think that makes it a relatively nice way to go compared to some other, slower, processes.
"most gruesome death imaginable"
"they died instantly"
you grossly underestimate our imagination
Yep
Gruesome. Not painful or horrific. Gruesome.
Gruesome just means gross. Id say bathtub suicides win in that case.
@@LCTesla nutty putty cave death win the title
The man exploded?
Tom Clancy book "without remorse" features an "interrogation" wherein a person was put into a pressure chamber and slowly taken to depth. Then when questioned, if he gave the wrong answer, pressure was lowered rapidly causing pain. It was...gruesome.
They also did it in a James Bond movie.
@@brycesolomon9933 License to Kill
love that book not sure im gonna like the movie
@@bimbkin2830 i agree. I'm going to watch it, but my hopes aren't high. So here's hoping we're pleasantly surprised lol
@Jeannette Benoit at the very core, yes.
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."
Mine too
When it comes down to it,we watch these videos for entertainment.
Whenever Simon signs off that way,it was always an interesting video.
Oh my god this was such an interesting comment. Do you really say “yes I did enjoy the video.” Thats so not vapid or banal in any way. Thanks for sharing. I got to go tell all my friends. “Yes I did enjoy the video.” Brilliant.
I haven't seen one of his videos yet that I didn't enjoy
Sseth making the curious minds to learn stuff just because "oh you dont want to know" and flash 1/3'rd of second single title on screen.
My old high school buddy died while working on an oil platform near Brunei. He was a specialized deep sea diver. This is one of the most dangerous jobs in the entire world.
And they deserve twice the pay that they receive.
I tell my son that high paying jobs are difficult (requiring exceptional skill or training,) dangerous, or unpleasant and that the highest paying jobs often have two of those characteristics or even all three. Diving is what I most often think of when I say "all three."
@@dallasbaiton3234 I think they deserve 10 times the amount or more. Such a dangerous job. And what about after effects when they are older? You couldn't pay me enough to do it. Cheers mate
@@dallasbaiton3234 : I hear divers complain about many things, pay is never 1 of them.
@Brian Garrow, what year? My dad was a telecommunications engineer contracted in Brunei between 1980 and 2000 and would often be out on one of the oil rigs.
This is why a lot of things that are called "human error" are really a fault of bad design. There should be no way to unclamp the thing while it is pressurized.
No shit, typical bean counters and corner cutting peices of shit always at the route cause. Then they blame one poor worker as if its all thier fault.
Human error is billy tripping and falling off the curb into traffic. Criminal negligence is not bothering to put in failsafes and safties because its guna prevent some POS from getting a nicer car.
@@rabidbeaver167 they probably were overworking the divers to the point of exhaustion too.
@@warrensteel9954 That or the Nitrogen Euforia mentioned in the video
@@rabidbeaver167 While it is bad design most of the time, that isn't always the case. Sometimes accidents are caused by human error. Best example is traffic accidents
And bad design is a human error
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.
Smashed through that small crescent gap.
Geezus kreist...
There are some photos from after the event and he looks like dogfood and diving suit.Check it out on Google images.
@@jamiewulfyr4607 Gahh dang ! I'll check it out.
Holy shit, that's even worse!
As if it wasn't already horrifying..
My friend became a under water welder after college, he did great for a few years until something went horribly wrong and he was killed. Never found out what actually happened to him but they said that kind of work was extremely dangerous.
it is already dangerous to dive as a recreational diver, imagine working in these conditions every day.
Sorry for your loss ❤️
And I start to panic when I get a little ear pressure from driving up a high hill.
😂😂 Reminded me of driving up the Rockies with the pressure freaking me out. Made worse the fact no one else seemed to feel it.
@@brando4422 man, I get ear pressure while getting to the 1st floor of my house.
😲😂😂😂
Weak asses
You sissies I once dove into the worlds deepest bodies of water from the worlds tallest cliff and I managed to touch the bottom and make it to the surface without some pansy ass dive bell. Back in my day, we walked up hill five miles to school, and home. When we wanted water, we had to conduct warfare with wolves and other forest demons. And if you don’t know, now you know, you know
Damn... imagine that. Decompressing so fast that your body literally just explodes in a spray of bloody red visceral chunks... That's some Final Destination horror right there.
Atleast they felt no pain.
@@isaacyang265 probably for a microsecond
Where do your thoughts go in the instant
@@RealWolfmanDan Up on the ceiling, down on the floor. Across the wall...
More like the decompression deaths in the movie "Outland", people just pop into bloody balloons when exposed to space in that film lol
I have been an avid Scuba diver and instructor most of my adult life. I certified my grandson at age 16. He was very much a natural. He attended the “collage of oceaneering” and became a commercial diver about 15 yrs ago now. A very successful career for him. He won’t touch Sat diving. As a family man with two kids it’s not worth it.
Honestly sat diving is safer than scuba, I have been a commercial diver for 28 years 15 of those as a sat diver
Take a My 17b over any scuba rig
@@tylerharvey5088 Too right bud
Became a scuba diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became an advanced diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a Master diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a diving instructor and I thought I knew about diving. Became a commercial diver and I thought about diving. Did surface mixed gas diving and I thought I knew about diving. Became a saturation diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a saturation supervisor and I thought I knew about diving. It's when I worked with hyperbaric doctors that I really started to learn about the many facets of hyperbaric science. Still learning and realizing that it can be safe but it's usually human error that get's people in trouble.
@@georgecurious2248 where are you working at buddy I want to get my dmt and work in a chamber but it's hard finding a hospital with a chamber where I'm at
Its June 25th 2023 and this video is more relevant than ever.
Me not knowing anything about deep sea diving or deep sea drilling: ah yes, of course
Me, in the same boat (no pun intended): mmhmm, yes... indubitably. 🤣
Don't forget that chin stroke
That profile pic hahahaha
@@themadlad8483 LMAO it goes perfectly with the comment
I imagine the guy in your profile pic being the one cleaning up this accident just him alone with a mop slowly mopping up the remains
So basically it was the most gruesome for the witnesses, not the victims, considering the death was instantaneous and painless.
I have to wonder what exactly it felt like. Maybe time stretched on and that few seconds felt like hours.
@@rosesweetcharlotte seconds like an hour, no way.
However, I can tell you from almost choking to death that not breathing for around about 1.5-2 minutes can feel like 5 or 10 minutes when you're panicking.
@@Chef_Alpo Yeah, that doesn't make me feel better...
@Tuperwear their bodies blew apart before their nervous system could register what was going on. There's a measured lag time for signals to go from your body to the brain, and it's likely said nerves were disconnected before those signals ever made it there. It's like the victims of submarine implosions: it happens too fast for the nerves to get the signal up to the brain.
They think it was probably quick.... But perhaps questionable for some of them.
Dang, basically they were inflated like a balloon until they burst from the tension all in the span of less than a second. I feel real sorry for the guy who had to clean that up.
Thats pretty gruesome. But atleast they were able to die a quick painless death. God bless those brave people
They didn't inflate. Their blood, iron etc just decided to adios and they died, and the guy that got ripped apart yeah, 2 finger wide gap
I read that one of them was sucked through a tiny hole
@@christinadawson6482 correct
The hole was not that tiny. It was more ofa crescent moon shaped opening. There are images, but beware. Its ugly.
You will have to cover this accident and how it compares to the just confirmed OceanGate Submersible imploding at the depths of Titanic (3600m or 12,795 ft (approx. 2.5 miles down). For comparison, the Byford Dolphin Accident happened at 9 atmospheres, the Titan submersible was 386 atmospheres of pressure... Very scary to think how fast something like this would happen...
Definitely
So I’m def not the only one searching these kinds of videos right now
@@deadskinconsumption def not alone mate
@@deadskinconsumption OF link?
You can't compare these two incidents like that. The Byford Dolphin incident was a rapid decompression. The Titan imploded or you could say it was a "compression" (not decompression).
You can view it like this: The pressure inside the decompression chamber in the Byford Dolphin incident did go extremely rapid from 9 to 1 bar. The pressure inside the titan did go extremely rapid from 1 bar to 400 bar.
Both processes are instant deaths, faster than the brain can react, though the titan incident is probably even more brutal.
A childhood buddy of mine did this work for a while for an offshore oil company. He only did it for a few years but made well north of $300k per year during those years. He said he lost close to 15 years off his life expectancy due to him working in this profession. He’s still slightly mentally affected by it, similar to soldiers returning with PTSD.
@Fuzzy Butkus pretty sure they tell the divers before they sign the contract they will experience health damage. Otherwise they can get sued like the guys in the video could.
@Fuzzy Butkus saturation divers on average die in their 70,'s
@Fuzzy Butkus it’s called medical science? The affects of deep diving for prolonged periods are well documented and these guys literally live for months at a time in what is essentially a Winnebago built to stay underwater.
@Fuzzy Butkus Saturation diving involves living in high-pressure environments for weeks on end to prevent getting Decompression sickness and allowing them to work their shifts at depth. Your body isn't designed for that so things like bone necrosis, where there is death of a portion of the bone that is thought to be caused by blockage of the blood vessels by a bubble of nitrogen/helium coming out of solution, in divers is common. You don't find a lot of old commercial divers and now most of the work is done by ROVs
$300k/ year. How much do you suppose the CEO and CFO make in a year sitting in their plush leather office chairs?
"All divers died instantly and painlessly" This is now on the top of my list of preferred ways to go when my time comes.
i dunno, it would probably not be so good for you family / loved ones. not when there are other ways to die instantly without knowing - like dying in your sleep lol
If you look at the autopsy photos you might change your mind, he literally exploded and half of him was turned inside out.
@Xi Jinping Jesus Christ...
@@peterbuckley3877 just saw them...gross.
They are just claiming that to avoid a bigger lawsuit. I'm sure they had a second of extreme pain.
Honestly there's probably worse. I feel like this is in the same ball park as bomb defusal. It's a painless death if you screw up and the aftermath/cleanup just isn't your problem. This is probably a "worst death to witness" more than anything
Painless doesn't equal not gruesome
Bomb defusing is not nearly as gruesome or worse as this.
I like how your idea of a really bad death includes having to clean up after yourself lol
Kind of a case of 'gruesome' vs 'worst' I suppose. The most visceral deaths I've seen were due to gunshot or car crash, far quicker than hypo/hyper thermia. Interesting metric though.
Imagine massive doses of radiation.
At first, your skin begins to itch and burn like a sunburn. Depending on how bad, this can last as little as a few hours or as much as a couple of days.
Then you bleed.
And bleed and bleed and bleed.
It pours out of every orifice in your body and opens new ones cause that bad sunburn you had? Not so much like a sunburn now.
Your flesh literally starts falling off of your bones in chunks. Your organs begin liquifying and you actually vomit out your digestive system piece at a time until your body can no longer physically vomit, then you just choke on the viscera.
This can last *FOR ALMOST 2 WEEKS*
At the end, your "body" is little more than a cracked, brittle skeleton with rotting bits of meat dripping off of it. Your eyes, tongue, genitals, hair, fingernails, internal organs and skin are all gone.
It is like being swallowed by fire for 2 weeks.
This happened to a guy in Japan who saved most of the island's population decades ago during what could've been the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever.
But he sacrificed himself and, while I don't have the exact details of what he did to stop a meltdown, he was exposed to incalculable amounts of radiation.
By the end, he was begging the doctors to let him die.
Your voice is clear and easy to follow. Also you tell the story well and very concisely with no waffle. Good job.
I’m not even at 3 minutes and I’m CLAUSTROPHOBIC FROM THE THOUGHTS ALONE.
for me that moment came 30 seconds in ...
Same
26 seconds
Imagine fckn exploding because of the pressure 😬😬😰
I am terrifed/phobic of deep dark water as it is...no way. I could not go down like that
Here's a gruesome death. This happened in my local area a few years ago. A sugar cane harvester was being used to harvest mass amounts of sugar cane meanwhile many groups of labor workers would pick up the remains that the harvester wasn't able to harvest. The day was very hot and humid and one of the workers was assumed to be sleeping among the sugar cane in the shade (pretty stupid I guess). And the driver of the harvester didn't see him and harvested his body into grounds in less than 2 seconds. The inside of the harvester was completely painted in pure blood. The most identifiable remains were a few 1 cubic inch pieces of flesh. The person was identified only by subtracting all of the other workers there that day and finding who was missing. Yeah I didn't sleep well when I heard about that
Or this: a landscaper was pruning trees in my town and using a wood chipper on the branches. You can probably guess what happened. One of his workers somehow got tangled up in a branch and was pulled into the machine before anyone knew what had happened. The worker was the landscaper's son. They actually posted a photo in the local paper of this poor man sitting on the curb after the incident with a bewildered look on his face. I still cannot fathom why someone sent a photographer to the scene or why they felt the need to publish that picture
A young guy under 18 put his foot in the wood chipper and his jean got caught he got chipped away from the legs up... look it up North Carolina
If we’re sharing stories of gruesome deaths, I have one to add that happened in my city.
A few years ago, a man was attempting to quickly cross the city’s light rail train tracks, but tripped and fell onto the tracks right in front of the train, right as it was pulling out of the station. It was nighttime, and the train operator didn’t see the man. He was dragged underneath the train for three blocks until it pulled into the next station. Not sure when exactly he died, but folks in the apartment building located halfway between the two stops could hear screaming as the train went by. So, it unfortunately wasn’t instantaneous.
I'll too share a gruesome death. So it happened when I was running home back from a forest after my days work. While running back I saw these people in the distance and they were chatting about something, had weapons in their arms and were waving a flag for some reason. I just assumed they were random hunters and so I carried on and went right back to my wood cabin. The next morning I wake up and I hear someone walking around my cabin. I think nothing of it, but then when I come outside, there's sudently no one there, so I turn around to get back inside when I see a creeper who's about to blow up inside my cabin and I hit him with my diamond sword that has knockback II on it and the creeper just flies away further into my cabin next to my sitting cat named Tom. Both of them died, taking away a half of my cabin with them. I cried for about a day after the incident.
@@Bambim8 they had us in the first half not gonna lie
As a kid in the late 60's early 70's, I distinctly remember learning of the highest paid profession availed to those working with their hands; $100 an hour for deep water welding.
"Piece of cake"...
50yrs later I discover this on YT
you would cry at what specialist underwater welders earn now.
I was training for underwater welding. My uncle owned a business, he passed away on the job due to a failure in one of his lines. I stopped immediately and changed careers.
Diver Hellevik, who was in the trunk between the capsule and the decompression chamber when the clamp let go, was forced thru the partially open hatch and, as one writer put it, "reduced to pot roast."
The name for the phenomenon that took the lives of the 5 men - which Simon doesn't use - is _explosive decompression._
Ask a Mortician described a death on her channel that has taken my top spot for most gruesome death imaginable. This poor man fell down a manhole in NYC where some work was being done, someone had taken away the protective covering. The reason it was being worked on was that there was an issue with a leaking steam pipe, so the area where he fell was full of scalding hot steam. This poor man remained alive and aware, slowly cooking to death for HOURS while crews struggled to get him out. He eventually succumbed and perished. An autopsy revealed that he had died of steam burns and scalding on 60 percent of his body. Truly horrifying.
people don't realize steaming alive is so much worse than burning, because your nerve endings aren't singed; you feel every bit of the pain.
HOURS ? couldn't someone just throw a damn rope down there ???
Yep and after failing multiple times to remove him, they all just basically had to sit around and listen to the echoed wailings and screams of pain until his untimely demise.
@@BernStoogin Thatbmust be horrible. I once got scalded by 145C high pressure steam. Just a fraction of a second and not even enough to leave a wound but it was insanely painful. The humidity also transfers the heat well after I took my hand out of the steam I still had near boiling water on my hand and wiping doesn't help much you have to hold it under cool water, that's stops the pain instantly if you haven't been burnt too fast. There's industries that work with 600C high pressure steam. If one of those lines bursts next to you that's quick but extremely painful.
I think Dr. Melinek talks about that case. She worked for the office of the medical examiner in NYC and talks about many of the deaths during 9/11 and the post 9/11 period while she was training.
“The pressure in the chamber instantly dropped from 9 atm to 1, instantly” ah yes I wasn’t sure how instantaneous it was thanks for the confirmation
*Instantaneously
*In an instant
It's denoting exaggeration
Pretty instant, but definitely not instantly instant. I'd give it a semi instant instantly instantaneous instant.
@@poopshiestyreal in a instant it was semi instant which caused a instantaneous instantaneously instant instantly and it all happened in a instant.
@@keltar4071 ooo okay, yeah, I’m picking up what you’re putting down.
Well it was fast enough to make blood boil internally so that's pretty instant 😋
“The most Gruesome Death Imaginable”
Roman executioners: 🧐
I mean, if the most gruesome deaths you can imagine is crucifixion, being fed to lions, beheading, or hanging... You haven't been hanging around true horror RUclips channels for long.
@@ao1778 neither have you, if you want to see what painful is I’d recommend searching rekt on /b... for example the sinaloa cartel pumps you full with drugs so you don’t die immediately and start skinning your face alive.. quite a way to go wouldn’t you say?
He also said they died immediately and painlessly. So probably not gruesome for the victims. Not suitable for torture.
Have you heard of the animal bag? They’d sew up criminals in a sack with a monkey, snake, rooster, and dog and throw them into a river
Mexican cartels😒 amateurs
Very good explanation of both the diving technique and the dangers. A novelist once wrote about a fictitious first use of a diving suit in which the man below died quickly, but horribly, because the system lacked a backflow-preventer in the air line. With local bigwigs looking on at the marvelous new technology for underwater salvage, somebody got annoyed at the loud air compressor and turned it off. Almost instantly the air line pressure fell to zero, and the air in the highly-pressurized diving suit blew its entire contents up the single air line like a cannon going off. The crowd was sprayed with a noxious red mixture, which they later discovered was the poor diver, whose eighteen inch wide body including a few of its hard bits had been forced by extreme air pressure upwards through a two inch diameter air hose, at great speed. Now, that account was fiction, so I never learned if such a sudden drop in pressure from multiple atmospheres to one atmosphere could blow a human apart. You have now assured me it could happen.
Damn, that is terrible. I wonder how much money the corporation saved by leaving off the necessary safety interlocks? I was a safety manager for ten years, and I've seen many cases of such false economy in he world of workplace safety.
I read a story about a young man who ran away at the age of 10 he came upon a cabin he wanted to sleep in it but the door was locked. Instead of breaking the window he shimmied down the chimney where they eventually found his body. I can imagine the poor kid screaming for help until he succumbed to his death. He died because he was a good kid at heart and didn't want to damage the cabin and that bothers me as well. R.I.P to that kid. That always comes to my mind when I hear somebody says the worst way to die.
Since you made me regret reading this, I'm gonna leave a similar story here. There's a neighbour I knew who was in an accident. He was riding his motorcycle on a rainy day and fell into a drain and broke his leg. His body was found in the morning when people go out looking for him. Bloody scratch marks were found all over the drain walls, his fingers were bloody and nails broken. Apparently he tried to crawl out by himself but failed when nobody heard him screaming for help. He died because of blood loss.
@@ms.chuisin7727 Poor souls. I hope there is a heaven after death just so people who suffer get their happiness. I'd go to hell just for people like that to have a happy ending.
Mr ballen tells that story, I forget which episode. Places where people went and shouldn't have.. so sad, I think about that story as well.
Joshua Maddux. Poor baby.
@@tardwrangler keep trying homie you’ll be so good at edgy humor one day maybe you’ll even get a present
"In space, no one can hear you scream" well, there are worst fates out there.
Oh this could definitely happen to you in space too
@@edwardhumphreys8660 Actually, it would be very unlikely for this to happen in space, unless the inside of the vessel was overpressurized for some reason.
The reason this happened is because of the instant change from 9 atmospheres of pressure to just 1. Space, being a vacuum, has an atmosphere of 0, and the inside of a spaceship is generally going to be 1 atmosphere, so the pressure change between 1 and 0 is nowhere near strong enough to cause the same result (this is also why a spaceship cannot double as a submarine, because it doesn't have the proper reinforcements installed to withstand such an insane amount of pressure.
For reference, soda cans are often pressurized to 2-3 atmospheres above the ambient pressure, so cracking open a soda can is more exciting than cracking open a spaceship (well, depending on the size of the hole, at least. A big hole on a ship _will_ suck you out, if you're close enough).
Sorry kars
Cuz in space... you can’t scream.
So is this philosophy or semantics?
@@Pencil0fDoom well you can actually but it just takes for ever to sound wave to move
my father did this out of rotterdam in the 70's.
sounded terrifying.
Your father must have had pair made of Titanium.
I'm thinking about becoming a saturation diver
I’m so excited to spend the rest of my life NEVER SATURATION DIVING 🤷🏻♀️
edit: jfc, thanks for the likes, subscribe to my channel if you feel like it lmao??? what does one say in these situations????
Shit, I knew I was taking my first dates on the wrong outings.
I’m a professional diver, mainly working on boats, ships and search and recovery, I never really go below 30 meters, so I do occasionally have to worry about nitrogen and decompression, however I don’t have to worry about being atomized with instantaneous decompression from 9 atmospheres.
In short... I, like yourself, am very excited about never saturation diving.
And thus proving why the wage gap can exist without injustice.
Lol
I hear you. I just couldn't take the pressure. It's definitely not an oversaturated industry. You also never know when one of your coworkers is just going to fly off the handle and explode.
One thing is for sure: you have to be pretty chill to handle this kind of work. I'm also sure the people who have previously worked in this industry want to destroy every Alvin and the Chipmunks CD with a sledgehammer.
I thought "Man, I'd earn tons of money doing this job" but then thought "Those are extremely terrifying conditions to work in, I'd rather not."
exactly why it pays so well
Same goes for jobs relating to radiation
Shit, if you can get into it - & Physically Handle it, (for, say at least 5yrs,) - & it not take Too Terribly Long to Learn the Specialized Diving Skills, once already knowing SCUBA, I'd *Seriously* Consider It!
I'm even One Step Ahead, as I know the TWO BIGGEST THINGS, in Diving, that You have to Learn - & I'm willing to Bet Anything it's *Exponentially So,* in Sat. Diving - Which is A: *Constant* "In the Moment" Awareness of Yourself, Your Surroundings, & Your Equipment; & MOST IMPORTANTLY, *Always keep a Level Head,* no Matter What Goes Wrong, (To the Point that It Becomes ANY Dive Instructor’s *Most* Repeated Phrase,) because of Lesson B. (& B. for " *BIGGEST* FUCKING THING TO *ALWAYS* REMEMBER") is: *If You Panic, You Die!*]
But yeah, @ $1500/day, & even only working 180 Days a Year, - & I'm sure you could pick up Extra Shifts, to make it more than 180days/yr, - in only 5yrs, you've made close to $1.5 Million; (& that's not taking into Account the Consultant, & Instructor, Work you could be Very Well-Paid for, after you stop doing Sat. Diving for a Living!) So with My Investment Knowledge/Vision, after just 5yrs I could Retire!
Fuck, not like, when you're
On the Job there's much to Spend $ on, either! Not @ 100Meters Down Below the Waves, LOL!
I drew the same conclusion about making and selling meth.
@@wormhole91 it takes years to get the big money. I have a friend who's a sat diver and makes around 300k-400k a year, but it took him around 10 years to land this job.
You gotta do a course, then work as an air diver for a few years to gain some experience and start making some networking.
Then do a sat diver course and apply jobs and most likely you will start with a few jobs here and there until they trust you and you become full time.
It is not an overnight thing like most people think that you do a course and next month you r a sat diver. Plus there are times where there r too many sat divers than jobs (like pandemic, financial crisis, oil in less demand etc) and you r more likely to be jobless during these periods.
So yeah, it is not so black and white like ppl think it is.
"byford dolphin is still operational" why the he- "with BP" god dammit they're at it again
What did he mean by that?
@@ilovebread5438 He means that people are still doing it today
@@jamesmayle4712 lmao nobody cares
@@jamesmayle4712 no one asked, no one cares, no one wants to read your long ass paragraph
"We're sorry..."
My brother’s friend does this and he makes it sound like no big deal, but when you describe it here it sounds absolutely terrifying. He does drink a lot. But then, he’s hardly the only one.
I had an uncle who worked on Sealab. It was enormously dangerous. He served as salvage diver in Vietnam. Then worked off the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. He was one tough individual.
where is he now?
@@danielbroomhall8882 passed away
Sealab2020
@@PranaChi369 bizarro!
He's living with 5 babes in Malibu
I'd never heard of this before. That was absolutely terrible, like how you'd imagine dying in a horror movie. It's good to know that the family members got something out of it in the end. I'll never complain about multiple safety measures on devices again. Thank you!
While financial compensation is considered to be "something " it will not even begin to assuage the suffering and grief of the families involved. How do you put a price tag on the smile your child gices you as you wake him for her up for the first day of summer vacation ? How much is that hug you share with your wife just because she means so much to you ?
That those people responsible for those deaths should be held liable for any and all loss incurred by the family, it should be noted quite plainly, that in no way does this absolve the other side of any blame. Unfortunately, that kind of justice will only be dispensed in the Final Day of Judgement. In the end, those families who had their loved ones ripped from their arms will have to endure. My prayers for their grief are offered up for them.
There's several videos on RUclips explaining the incident, with varying levels of technical details and additional info.
Fascinating eggskull
@@hourman65 I'd trade all that for a 69 dollar bill
They did make a movie based on this event actually. Bruce Willis was in it. It's called The Abyss.
You know as "gruesome" as it is, this actually sounds like a pretty ideal way to go. One second you are sitting in your pod business as usual; next second your entire body has exploded from the vascularity outward. What are we imagining here? 250 milliseconds of trauma before the sum total of damage to the central nervous system has literally turned it into flying pink paste and goo? You'd literally be dead before you felt anything!
Okay sure, maybe death by lethal injection would be even "less painful." BUT . . . the stress building up to the moment of the injection could be pretty awful and even once the sedative started to kick in there could be quite a bit of anxiety and horror. I'd say just dying instantly without any warning at all is preferable.
To a lot of humans it’s not just how you die but when.
If you've ever been in a lot of pain, you'll realize that its really not that bad overall. It's only a quick second before the body adjusts to it and just get use to it. The muscles will cause the other pain youll feel but it stops rather quickly.
@@brandoncaldwell95 what does what you wrote have to do with dying?
@@brandoncaldwell95 Try having a large kidney stone. Your body does not "adjust" to that pain. It is constant, relentless agony that only gets worse and worse, without relief. Kidney stones sound benign, but I assure you they can easily exceed the pain threshold that a human body can withstand.
Lethal injections arent even close to being painless
"Hey hey people, Seth here, so you want to know what happens in the event of a rapid decompression?... No, no you don't."
0:40 "One of the most dangerous, and well paid, jobs in the world." These two things are closely related. "You want me to do _what?"_
I mean you can get pod 1400$ a day sooo
Plenty of jobs are well paid and safe and plenty of jobs pay crap and are dangerous. This one makes sense though.
@@yeetusdeletus7039 1400 a day STARTING. around 180k per year due to human body and such{cant do it day after day} and after 3 years youll generally make 200k-240k according to my instructor who did it before becoming an engineering and dive instructor
@@rattyratstuff7125 bet
@@yeetusdeletus7039 craaaazy good money if you can take it. I couldn't take it sadly.
"The Byford Dolphin rig is STILL IN OPERATION, currently on contract with BRITISH PETROLEUM"
Man, nothing bad could happen here!
@Anon Ymous deep water horizon
@Anon Ymous Google "BP safety record" and you'll understand.
Stated as if, "My Money is much More Important than human life" doesn't exist amongst the Corporate World. Corporations count on people dying. It's factored into the "Cost of doing business". Depending on the size of the Corporation, let's say the Gas & Oil industry, up to 20 deaths per year is perfectly acceptable.
@@g3o5d corporations is basically like our bodies, I lose a cell, no big deal. except humans are their cells.
moral of story, don't work for them if you don't want to be disposable.
Except it's not. It was about 10 years ago, but it was scrapped in 2018-2019.
I talked with a retired deep saturation diver that ran a Wound Care Center. He said it took 8 to 10 days to decompress and now he has many problems related to the 5 years he did that job. Total regret.
Poor guy.
It's not worth it
They are mostly paying poor country workers to do the job as the income is like a decade of salary for them. Not sure if the healthcare is good
How tragic!!
What problems?
yeah, honestly the process to decompress and the symptoms from all that nitrogen in you sounded as bad as the accident. Definitely would not take such a job no matter the money. Maybe if I was already terminal and the pay would help my family after I'm gone.
> Most gruesome death imaginable
Titan crew: "hold my xbox controller"🎮
Wow I just snorted...was not expecting that😅
That moment when you realize that Simon remembered one of his lost channels. Is Simon the one really trapped in the basement and its Danny making him read all the scripts?
This is Simon clone number 3 and he is trapped in the basement with Sam and Danny
I read into this a little bit more. He’s ok. He gets stale bread and toilet water once a day. Give a lm actor an inch and they’ll take the directors seat
He's in a decompression chamber and cannot escape without exploding.
Dude has videos out weekly on like 9 channels. Clones. It has to be.
"While we're proud to finally introduce our A.I. system to the world he will already be familiar to decades of RUclips users as Simon 'The Knowledge' Whistler."
This incident comes up whenever discussing what would happen to a person jettisoned into space without a spacesuit and why they wouldn't explode or inflate like a balloon as some imagine. Human skin can easily withstand a pressure difference of one atmosphere. Nine, not so much.
pretty much, space is largely problematic due to temperature and how your internal fluids, particularly the lungs, react to the absence of pressure, the lack of air just helps to kill you before the really unpleasant stuff happens cause i cant imagine being freeze dried would be a fun sensation
@@nickolaswilcox425 It’s not really temperature issues either, it’s not really hot or cold in space, except in direct sunlight and heat radiation. You’d suffocate long before you felt the effects of heat/cold/“temperature”.
“Not so much”, eh?
Hehee good one
Not hot or cold in space..? Okay so I had to look that up and apparently it's on average about 10 degrees Celsius close to Earth which actually sounds like a nice spring day... Interesting.
It's barely above absolute zero in more distant reaches though, which I'd have a harder time saying isn't cold. So I guess it depends on where exactly you get ejected.
Either way I suppose the lack of oxygen and possible lung collapse would be of more concern than the temperature.
@@TheMistyBlueLounge that sums up my understanding as well, temperature being an issue is conditional but in the cases that it is then it mostly impacts the condition of your corpse afterward, the biggest problem being respiratory trauma in response to ~0 psi and then the actual suffocation finishes the job. on the bright side you wont suffer long if at all since your gonna blackout rather quickly
Me clicking on this video: "Just how bad could death by a dolphin be?"
Dolphins have some pretty brutal sexual practices so yes, death by dolphin could be pretty bad.
Death by dolphin is much worse than this, not as gruesome, but a lot more painful
I'm a diver. I'm mix gas and rebreather certified, so I could get a sat cert as well. This crap? No thanks. I'll pass.
its not the dolphin that will kill you, its the prolapse.
Hi!
Me too, bro. But the real thing is much more terrifying.
I thought maybe a dolphin got into the diving bell and freaked out.
Yes
No Sir youre not!
Is it not? Am leaving 👍
I came here expecting a funny dolphin-related death. That was not funny at all
Well, the dolphins watching it happen might've thought it was funny. Some dolphins are heartless assholes.
@@RCAvhstape Orcas are in the dolphin family. Aren't they also called killer whales?
Dolphins rape almost anything smaller than them, they also get high off pufferfish
@@charleslindsey6789 Wild orcas have a human kill count of 0, other species of dolphin, namely the bottlenose, are more likely to rape you while you drown than save you if you're in trouble, contrary to what hollywood and seaworld depict.
@@RCAvhstape well, killer whales are More dolphin than whale so, yeah
I've dived for many years and have known some sat divers. One retired diver said out of his graduating class all those years ago, out of 30 people in his class, 5 were still alive
😂😂😂come on either you're lieing or the old scab was blowing smoke through your arse
@@tylerharvey5088 didn't say they all died diving....
@@colecooper5836 people die left and right its a part of living. But this comment makes it seem like they're talking about in diving.
@@colecooper5836 I work with 2 divers well into theyre late 60s dudes run circles around me in the water. And there are a million more just like them I dony need to hear that bs that diving is horrible on your body
I dunno, maybe he was
Ironic this pops on my feed right after they found the Titan submersible remains. I feel for the families. But I am stunned anyone thought it was actually safe at those depths.
What is also worth watching is “Last Breath” it’s a 2019 documentary film about a story of a serious saturation diving accident in 2012.
Thanks!
A family friend used to be a saturation diver and they would spend 6 weeks working and 2 weeks decompressing on the surface. The stories he’s told are a great reason to never do that type of work.
Give me one
Full pay whilst decompressing?
You can't just make a statement like that and then not give the gruesome details bro!
i thought to myself as he started talking about decompression, “ahh they’re gonna blow up, aren’t they?” then they blew up
some people make a mistake and need to fix it
others make a mistake and *fucking explode*
More of one got ripped apart through a 2 finger wide gap and others imploded.
The fact that the design of the pressure chamber was made by a French company is the real smoking gun with regard to its lack of careful engineering.
I knew we couldn’t trust those dolphins. They are sadistic killers with happy faces.
The only sadistics killers are humans!
That moment when you wanna take a hot wild guess of the video because you wanna be early.
@@luga718 it is known by now, that doplhins can be very cruel and sadistic when it comes to their prey
So long and thanks for all the fish
...bruh
"Hey mom can we have Vsauce?"
"No, we have Vsauce at home!"
Vsauce at home:
There is no more vsauce
I know this guy for few years, and never got impression of him knocking off Vsauce.
@@usernameluis305 why
@@B1SCOOP I think it’s that he looks like Vsauce, not that he’s making similar content
@@blushchuu Looks lile vsauce? You mean Michael Stevens?
Every time I watch this guys videos I feel like I’m taking notes on a PowerPoint and I’m ten slides behind
Lmao right? Hahah
A warm thanks to the many members of the Merchant's Guild.
Watched a documentary of workers/researchers living in a small habitat deep underwater days or a week or 2. A bathroom was made About 20-30 meters away I think. It was just an anchored dome big enough for their head and shoulders, where they could breathe and a light to see. Had to swim there. They went naked and did their business with their head in the dome. It’s pitch black, alone, far, far down. They hated that. Not knowing what creature was there the dark as they defecated, exposed and naked. Some had very scary experiences too. Shining a light snd seeing some insanely scary looking animals. They had to do that a lot and what animals are attracted to feces etc... Yeah that was freaky. And cool. It’s on RUclips somewhere.
remember anything else about it?
Yeah, just begs to have a poop shark like swim up their ass or something.
@@klincecum it believe it was a RUclips documentary about underwater research facilities where they live in a habitat for weeks at a time, very deep doing research. They would go out and document sealife. Go into their larger habitat and sleep and so on.... maybe on Prime? It was professionally done. Sorry I don’t remember the name. I watch a ton of docs.
Man I couldn't even imagine......I don't even like shitting in a out house because of spiders....
I think this was a Joe Rogan podcast
Saturation diving is used much less in the oil industry these days than were used in the 70s and 80s. Their routine jobs from rigs have been engineered out so that they can mostly be done by Remotely Operated Vehicles and surface automation. Most rigs, including Byford Dolphin, heavily modernised in the intervening years, have their own ROVs on board now.
After reading many comments, the thought then occurred to me that I had never even heard of this type of diving and mostly because of the many different types and sizes of R.O.E's I've seen doing the dangerously deep work. It does "seem" kind of an archaic (no disrespect to those who still do it) practice considering today's safer alternatives...AND that it scares me stiff just thinking about it! :)
Out of curiosity where are these ROVs operated from? Do they lower the operators down in a 1 atm chamber
Agree. I work in the subsea o&g and I have heard of only 1 instance of using saturation divers in the last 7 years (at around 200m). ROVs have been the norm for decades now.
@@simonecasolo3122 yes work offshore myself, includng a few trips on this rig, and saturation diving is now done by specialist dive support vessels mainly.
As an offshore helicopter pilot, the support vessels which deploy and manage the ROVs are the bane of my existence lol. Thanks to Murphy’s Law, they’re always parked under our approach path and right by the helideck. And with the ROV deployed, they can’t just move off to allow for an optimum approach for us.
If it’s a tall rig, no biggie. If it’s not though, makes for an interesting final approach lol.
I am watching this video aboard a Saturation Diving Vessel (DPDSV) in the Gulf of Mexico right now. This is a cautionary tale that you hear in Dive School nowadays.
Good luck and no incidents :) Hats off to anyone, who is doing this job.
Damn. Hats off
If you don't mind me asking, how's the pay now?
Very interesting
My uncle is a deep sea sat diver off the coast and has some incredible stories. One time his bell partner (who you're stuck in the tiny bell with for looong periods of time) quit smoking and was on Chantix. Well one of the rare side effects is suicidal thoughts/psychosis and of course it happened to his partner pretty suddenly while they were down in the bell. My uncle ended up having to tie him up to try to calm him down until they could come up. Also a few fun shark attack stories
do tell about the shark stories
As soon as I heard that it wasn’t a real dolphin, I knew there could be no happy ending
Why on earth would you let the divers control the doors them self's after putting them in such a stressful atmosphere and then blame their deaths on them?
You seem to misunderstand what they mean by "human error".
There are an awful lot of errors and omissions in the video, it wasn’t quite as simplistic as is presented.
@@martinsaunders2942 hello sorry for the random comment. I am Belinda Crammond, Bill Crammond’s granddaughter. Is this the actual Martin Saunders ? X
@@belindacrammond7553 Hi Belinda… Yes, in fact it is me! How wonderful to hear from you.. I hope the family is all doing well, I think I last spoke to Ruth about 10 years ago. Belinda, you can find me on FB ….. look for the ice cream cone! Meanwhile, send my best regards to everyone. 👍
@@martinsaunders2942 you’re the only survivor, correct?
Thank you Sseth. I really want to know it :D :D
From 1978 thru 1987 I worked offshore oil fields in the Gulf Of Mexico. I left because the company I worked for got bought out and the new ownership offered us positions in Alaska if we wanted to keep our jobs. I declined and moved on to a different career. Everything about working offshore was dangerous, from flying in helicopters in bad weather to the many hand-traps and foot-falls located around the rig. They had a saying that you could tell how long someone had worked offshore by how many fingers they had left! I knew divers and had great respect for the courage those guys had. I'm sure in the 40 years since I worked in that field it's gotten a lot safer.....but it's still a tough job that takes a special kind of person. RIP to those divers.☮️
I was an A Operator for Devon Energy (contract) in the G.o.m. We lost a diver after Katrina or Rita knocked one of our platforms down. He was cutting apart the sunken platform and must've cut into a gas pocket
I had no idea such a job even existed until now, very informative. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
I've already heard this story told like 10 times on RUclips, but I guess I haven't heard it told so fast by a British person.
If he talked slower I would turn it off so his strategy and style works.
Yeah I'm pretty sure at least 2 came out in the month just before this one... whatever gets the clicks I guess..
Who’s here after the submarine situation?
I once, while traveling in Chile, met a man who worked on the same thing as the victim described in the video. He said that it was a very dangerous job but he got paid really well.
I've always thought this incident was the most gruesome thing I'd heard of. I can't imagine how horrifying it must have been to see your colleagues scattered around like they were blown apart.
Well, they were blown apart.
@@nosrah9660 and you can’t really see your friends being blown up while *you’re* being blown up
@@urinetrouble0543 Can’t argue with that.
"Imagine recording 14 youtube videos a week"
I got $10 bucks that he's going to go insane within 2 years.
He's a rich boy, he won't burn out as long as he is earning 👌
There are many people involved. It's not like he is spending 20 hours a day seven days a week doing this all by himself. He will be just fine. In fact the will probably start more channels. Lol.
He's already been doing this for years.
Well, it's more likely a team of creators and not Simon himself all along. And he's been doing this for YEARS
I'm pretty sure he just gets paid to host the videos and reads from a script. There's probably a whole team of researchers and editors that he works with. Either that or he's an AI that's decided to take over RUclips.
First time seeing you out of the history channel! Love it ! Great writing ! New fan 🎉🎉🎉
That the families of the divers weren't immediately compensated for their lives from a horrific, completely preventable accident is probably proof that we live in the worst timeline.
"Sorry, one of our employees fucked up and it caused your loved one to instantly grenade, but that's how it goes!"
People were burned alive because they had ideas or were smart in the past... if you ever check out history you will be pretty damn happy you're here today and not 2000 years ago..
Forgot to add people loved watching others die for a long time, people laughed at others being slowly killed regardless of them deserving it or not.
They want you to sue the family of the guy who screwed up.
@@avae5343 Western cope
Being offshore, a contracted company for many employees, and other plausible deniability allow for corporations who own these things to limit or outright reduce anyyyyy legal liability even though as employers or contractors they have a DUTY to provide and protect their employees. And where the rig is also determines where they can sue. All these factors allow corporations to get away from catastrophic injury lawsuits. It’s shitty but the company was waitingggggg it out for a individual to be found responsible by CSB or some other Investigative body for oil rig catastrophes instead of themselves making it so they have to pay the LEAST amount out to the effected loved ones or employees/contractors.
My god, explosively decompressed.. I can't even imagine that
BLAT!
It's comparable to being obliterated by high explosive......I imagine.
Get a vaccum oven and put fruit in it.
At least it would have been almost instant and largely painless as a way to go. I think it would be worse if it hurt a lot and took several minutes to die. It should never have happened, nor been allowed to happen, but instant and painless is much better than several minutes of agony.
Dont comment do humanity a favor and live in a box alone forever
Just what I needed, another reason to be horrified of everything the ocean has to offer.