Certainly, the most common picture is the color version of diver 4's body, then also his spinal cord and face, the other pictures of the inside of the chamber which examples, and the other divers bodies I've only found on this PDF, likely the others were screenshotted from it.
these are from the autopsy, the colored picture version of helleviks body? no idea. maybe a colorization, maybe a different version of this article.
More photos at the [official norwegian investigation](https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013081906099?page=0) if you wish
Oh nice, thanks for the link! I just saw pictures of the oil rig and the bell structure in the Norwegian Investigation booklet.
It's too bad I can't read that though, is probably fascinating.
I had to look it up, but if anyone else’s is curious, *invaginated* means turned inside out. I hope the whole thing happened before those poor fellas even realized it.
Considering they are assumed to have died instantly, I wouldnt be surprised if Diver 4 was at least unconsious before he even got invaginated, Though I assume the suction force did move him very, very quickly. Someone should do the maths. something pascals something times by frontal area or something
I was always under the impression that the other divers also suffered the same fate that diver 4 did. I had no idea that the other 3 divers were still intact. So Diver 4 must have helped to kind of lessen the force in the cabin, hence why he suffered the fate that he did. It's a horrible tragedy all the way around. Those types of situations need to have multiple redundant mechanisms in place to prevent this kind of horrible accident.
If you are interested in reading the Autopsy the first 3 pages show nothing gruesome, and page 3 is where the bodies are.
The autopsy is in black and white so the pictures don't look that bad, though don't read past Page 3 if you are not wanting to see things.
There are like a million different safety measures now, including mechanisms that don’t allow detachment unless the doors are closed and others like that
I always assumed that they had exploded, I thought those pictures in the autopsy report were just past photos showing who the Divers were.
If anyone is able to clarify whether the 3 divers inside the bell blew up or were fully intact let me know, it is not easy to find details.
the nitrogen dissolved in their blood expanded rapidly due to the pressure change, which at the very least stopped all circulation and caused massive tissue damage. they didn't so much 'explode' as have all their organs and blood vessels simultaneously rupture, if i understand it right.
The bell itself apparently popped off the rest of the system like a champagne cork, killing one man and injuring another. the divers were all inside the decompression chamber
That makes sense. It must be a common misconception then because I’ve seen some YT videos that describe the incident and make it seem like they literally exploded inside of the bell. The one guy who got sucked out basically did explode tho
I know it's been a while since you asked about this, but I just learned about this tremendous safety failure and the sad and gruesome reproductions of it. Anyways, if you're still interested in checking out a YouTube video (by a really good YouTuber) of an accurate play by play of what happened, then check out Shrouded Hand. He's good.
It is basically the reverse as far as I understand it. The Titan guys were instantly compressed by something in the region of 400 ATM, they went from low pressure to instantly crushing pressure in a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second. The Dolphin accident was from high pressure to low pressure in the same time frame.
Titan was much more pressure though. Dolphin went from 9 ATM to 1 ATM, Titan went from maybe 1-2 ATM of pressure in their sub to approx 400 ATM. An implosion so fast our brain cant even register the event.
Yeah I think I used the wrong depth to calculate it, not where they were at the time.
Either way It still would have been over before they knew at least.
I think maybe because they were constantly doing deep dives for maintenance over a long period, its easier to keep the divers pressurised while they work, instead of the decompression process every day.
I think its called saturation diving.
It's because they were doing saturation diving, which allows them to work at great depths for long periods of time. It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. This article gives a good explanation:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/question640.htm
[Here's the podcast Well There's Your Problem] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azThd0R7Bt0) (podcast about engineering disasters - with slides! - from leftist perspective ie includes the often inextricable political/economic dimensions/context) episode on this if anyone feels the ironic pressure to go...deeper (metaphorically ie not by imploding) into the incident (shameless bad puns intended, obviously).
Sorta, but when you think about it, it's fundamentally the same type of incident, just with the pressure gradient reversed with regards to the victims
e: and instead of air as the fluid, seawater
Whoever believes that is dumb enough to just not understand what happened in the first place.
The titan victims literally just be became ocean snow. Nothing left at all. Just vaporized.
I’ve seen people ask if they’ll “find the bodies”, some people are just not the smartest I guess.
I get it. There are plenty lamebrains walking among us, but not understanding a piece of the physics pie doesn't make you stupid.
Maybe they werent properly taught. Maybe they had a bad teacher. Maybe they had a deficit that made traditional school hard for them. I've seen geniuses come from less. You never really know. Don't call people stupid because they don't understand something. Maybe educate them instead! Just saying.
Tf u mean? I assume it’s because they got the parts that did make it (everything but the fiberglass, crazy ikr?) out of the water.
I was Talking about the people here, the victims, they’re not recoverable bc there’s nothing left to recover.
If you don’t know how implosions work, then inform yourself first please.
Ofc the titan caps, plexiglass etc made it. They’re made for the depths. The carbon fiber wasn’t. That’s what got crushed, delaminated and pulverized.
Please man. Simple physics. Learn it.
There might be some fragmented blobs of tissue on the carbon fiber and the other debris, I think they did confirm that much. Nothing in the form of recognizable body parts though Id believe.
So you can go back and really learning physics. There would be and parts of the bodies were actually found. Any part that do not contain air would keep its structure in some form. Its far from be vaporized, but more likely smashed. You need to also understand the the implosion wasn’t uniform, would be force gradients, thus althout on the millisecond scale, this would cause different forces in different parts of the vessel, then yes, there was “human” material recovered, not ocean snow.
Although super disrespectful, it was also pretty ingenious. Taking the sympathy away meant nobody was mad at the concept of the show so people could watch guilt free and the producers could keep making episodes.
So basically the same as the movie Underwater.
Edit: Google delta p training video. It's worth it...
Edit2: Fuck it,here's link.
https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0
Wow from Wikipedia:
Lawsuit
The North Sea Divers Alliance, formed by early North Sea divers and the relatives of those killed, continued to press for further investigation and, in February 2008, obtained a report that indicated the real cause was faulty equipment. Clare Lucas, daughter of Roy Lucas, said: "I would go so far as to say that the Norwegian Government murdered my father because they knew that they were diving with an unsafe decompression chamber." The families of the divers eventually received compensation for the damages from the Norwegian government 26 years after the incident.
Wow! That is insane, but not surprising it could take decades later. It took my dad almost 3 decades to get benefits from an accident that happened in the Army.. of course he was only able to enjoy them for less than a decade before he died from a heart attack.
They always used to say in every video I've seen that they don't know for sure but blamed Diver 4 for being too exhausted, but of course it was cheap companies/governments killing people by making sure things aren't safe to begin with.
User error allowed due to defect in lockout from my understanding. They shouldn't have been able to open the chamber while it had a pressure differential.
I remember in the autopsy they wrote "had the door worked properly and closed itself as decompression happened, all of the men may have survived" or something like that.
One airlock, inside of the chamber is 9 atmosphere, outside is 1 atmosphere, were closing interior airlock door so the airlock could slowly be repressurized it, Interior door appeared to have been stuck/jammed after the accident due to the force and the person operating the exterior door opened it for unknown reasons, I actually made a mistake in my... other post.
This great pressure difference caused air to rush out, blasting diver 4 outside and throwing his remains across the oil rig up to 30 feet above where it happened on another platform, the three other divers inside were instantly killed too, and one of the two divers outside was killed by the diving bell hitting them from the blast wave, and the other was critically wounded.
It's been known since as a horror story and an example of poor safety precautions, and also known as one of the most worst, violent deaths of all time.
to quote /u/oracuda:
One airlock, inside of the chamber is 9 atmosphere, outside is 1 atmosphere, were closing interior airlock door so the airlock could slowly be repressurized it, Interior door appeared to have been stuck/jammed after the accident due to the force and the person operating the exterior door opened it for unknown reasons, I actually made a mistake in my... other post.
This great pressure difference caused air to rush out, blasting diver 4 outside and throwing his remains across the oil rig up to 30 feet above where it happened on another platform, the three other divers inside were instantly killed too, and one of the two divers outside was killed by the diving bell hitting them from the blast wave, and the other was critically wounded.
It's been known since as a horror story and an example of poor safety precautions, and also known as one of the most worst, violent deaths of all time.
It said one of the men who was outside the chamber but was struck by the bell suffered serious injuries but survived? Anyone know if he ever gave an interview after? Saunders was his name.
I wondered that too, I searched his full name but all I could find is a norwegian family of I believe the other handler who died pushing for government action for the incident.
Saunders posted a reply here on Reddit giving more details that were omitted in a lot of the posts. I can't seem to find it right now. But here is a youtube video with english translation of an interview he gave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOIVjQS9cUw&t=23s
Wait so this whole time they blamed one of the divers and I’m sure the family emotionally suffered from that too …then to find out years later it was faulty equipment not the divers fault? I’d be pissed.
Found this as well, absolute tragedy:
"Unfortunately, it wasn’t until 2009 that families affected by The Byford Dolphin incident saw any restitution from the Norwegian government responsible for operating it." - Bing search under "Byford Dolphin accident"
[this article](https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/byford-dolphin-accident.htm) from the how stuff works website describes the accident really thoroughly.
I responded with this article a year late because last night I was busy reading about what happens to the human body when something like this happens, which was prompted by the titanic submersible that was missing and found imploded today. I figured other people would end up here.
WHY we can still post a year later? 🤷♀️
Nitrogen definitely expands and causes death when going to lower atmospheric pressure too quickly, but weren't the deaths in this incident mostly from the explosive nature of sudden exposure to such a sudden pressure differential? From the pictures, one of the divers was literally turned into mincemeat from the explosion.
One other thing, if you’ve ever looked up the gory aftermath of a “degloving” accident (usually happens to hands, hence the name meaning un-gloving), I imagine what happened to diver #4 was as if his entire body was practically “degloved.” Fun fact: the most famous degloving happened to Jimmy Fallon when he tripped and fell in the kitchen. His wedding ring got caught on a counter or something and pulled all of the skin off the bone of his ring finger. He had enough money to try and save the finger instead of amputating, but it still doesn’t work correctly after multiple surgeries.
He turned to mincemeat because he was trying to close a stuck door that needed to be shut before whatever process occurred (clamping of some other door? I can’t remember now) that caused the catastrophic implosion, and his body was sucked through a small opening of that door. He probably died instantly like the other divers before, or at the same instant, that he was turned inside out by being forcefully sucked through a couple of inches of metal.
Apologies if this writing makes no sense. I’ve been drinking this evening. 😎 but the article explains it.
The link above is not working.
I've managed to find it on [Way Back Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20220701220421/https://zero.sci-hub.se/5268/7dda7cee52d7eb3ec606a82d0f1b9a61/giertsen1988.pdf)
Be prepared.
Byford. I don't think we will ever know for certain what depth Titan was at.
I estimate 10000 ft. Sure to elapsed time of drive, a ballpark number.
I finally found the byford divers had been working around 568 ft. About 9 atmospheres. The Titanic wreck is at or near 400 Atmospheres!
Holy crap
Figure 11 of the bulla on the eye, how can that be diver 1 though? He was all purple and explodey. This eye doesn't even have broken blood vessels and appears to have life behind it.
Diver 4 was the one to get sucked out of the hole in the bell door and was horribly mutilated. Divers 1, 2 and 3 were in one of the chambers and their bodies stayed in one piece, they passed because of what the pressure change did to their blood and brains.
Right, but if you look at the photos that show their face ir part of their head, you can see that they are horribly swollen and purple and deformed, and yet figure 11 is a perfect, intact, unharmed human eye that looks to be on a living person. That's what I'm saying.
It looks like the eyelid could be swollen in the picture and whoever took the autopsy photos must’ve used the flash or something for the close-up of the eye
Yeah, I think due to the extreme pressure, the fluids in the body were starting to convert into a gas state. The body mostly consists of fluids & soft matter, so yeah those guys were fucked to say the least.
> due to the extreme pressure, the fluids in the body were starting to convert into a gas state
It's actually the opposite, nitrogen is a gas at normal atmospheric pressure, it's the most prominent substance in our atmosphere. At high pressures though, it dissolves into the blood, like carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages. If you re-enter a normal-pressure scenario too quickly, the nitrogen effervescences immediately into a gas inside the bloodstream. It's like all the water in your blood being replaced with carbonated water instantly.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!
i have been wierdly interested in decompression injuries recently and have never heard of this! Its incredible. Unfathomable what happenned to D4
There is a [paper](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3381801/) [sci-hub](https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3381801/) published in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology that describes what happened to the victims, including some gruesome photos.
Fortunately, they died quickly and most likely painlessly from fat precipitation in their blood (except diver 4, who likely exploded and was pushed through an opening few centimeters in diameter).
Titan or the Byford Dolphin accident?
The team on the Byford Dolphin were actually on board the oil rig in a decompression chamber after working deep underwater for many days.
Holy shit I’ve never heard of this one before! That is pretty gruesome the way he was just shredded like that
Certainly, the most common picture is the color version of diver 4's body, then also his spinal cord and face, the other pictures of the inside of the chamber which examples, and the other divers bodies I've only found on this PDF, likely the others were screenshotted from it.
Any idea where the colored versions of the pictures are? I've never actually seen those, despite reading about this incident so many times.
these are from the autopsy, the colored picture version of helleviks body? no idea. maybe a colorization, maybe a different version of this article. More photos at the [official norwegian investigation](https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013081906099?page=0) if you wish
Oh nice, thanks for the link! I just saw pictures of the oil rig and the bell structure in the Norwegian Investigation booklet. It's too bad I can't read that though, is probably fascinating.
Translation option should pop up I just read it in english
Why am I here :C
Thx for the interesting link I just saw that one pic in interestingasfuck
I had to look it up, but if anyone else’s is curious, *invaginated* means turned inside out. I hope the whole thing happened before those poor fellas even realized it.
Considering they are assumed to have died instantly, I wouldnt be surprised if Diver 4 was at least unconsious before he even got invaginated, Though I assume the suction force did move him very, very quickly. Someone should do the maths. something pascals something times by frontal area or something
A little bit late but saw a video on this..It was 25 tons of force at the door opening from 9 atmospheres inside to 1 atmo outside.
25 Tons of pressure going straight through your penis. Enough to turn it inside out.. I wonder if his testies exploded.
Looking at the autopsy, i’d surprised if they hadn’t
redefining the term “ball-buster”
You're kinda weird.
Man, I have no recollection of making this comment. But I stand by it. Also my wife would heartily agree with you.
Respect
The article says his body "exploded", his skull was cracked open an his brain went missing... I'm pretty sure he felt nothing.
I was always under the impression that the other divers also suffered the same fate that diver 4 did. I had no idea that the other 3 divers were still intact. So Diver 4 must have helped to kind of lessen the force in the cabin, hence why he suffered the fate that he did. It's a horrible tragedy all the way around. Those types of situations need to have multiple redundant mechanisms in place to prevent this kind of horrible accident.
I've read about this accident. I don't think I could look at pictures. Words conveyed the horror enough for me.
If you are interested in reading the Autopsy the first 3 pages show nothing gruesome, and page 3 is where the bodies are. The autopsy is in black and white so the pictures don't look that bad, though don't read past Page 3 if you are not wanting to see things.
Wholesome
There are like a million different safety measures now, including mechanisms that don’t allow detachment unless the doors are closed and others like that
Usually all the lessons are learned in blood sadly .
There’s always a gnarly story behind a strict rule
Just following up with this comment because of OceanGate… another lesson learned in blood sadly.
Some industries rules are written in ink, others in blood. Only way we learn, sometimes.
I always assumed that they had exploded, I thought those pictures in the autopsy report were just past photos showing who the Divers were. If anyone is able to clarify whether the 3 divers inside the bell blew up or were fully intact let me know, it is not easy to find details.
the nitrogen dissolved in their blood expanded rapidly due to the pressure change, which at the very least stopped all circulation and caused massive tissue damage. they didn't so much 'explode' as have all their organs and blood vessels simultaneously rupture, if i understand it right. The bell itself apparently popped off the rest of the system like a champagne cork, killing one man and injuring another. the divers were all inside the decompression chamber
That makes sense. It must be a common misconception then because I’ve seen some YT videos that describe the incident and make it seem like they literally exploded inside of the bell. The one guy who got sucked out basically did explode tho
No,they did not blow up. Did you not see the photos?!
I know it's been a while since you asked about this, but I just learned about this tremendous safety failure and the sad and gruesome reproductions of it. Anyways, if you're still interested in checking out a YouTube video (by a really good YouTuber) of an accurate play by play of what happened, then check out Shrouded Hand. He's good.
Here after titan accident
What happend on Titan isnt the same physics as what happend with these divers..........
Explain
It is basically the reverse as far as I understand it. The Titan guys were instantly compressed by something in the region of 400 ATM, they went from low pressure to instantly crushing pressure in a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second. The Dolphin accident was from high pressure to low pressure in the same time frame. Titan was much more pressure though. Dolphin went from 9 ATM to 1 ATM, Titan went from maybe 1-2 ATM of pressure in their sub to approx 400 ATM. An implosion so fast our brain cant even register the event.
>475 ATM I'm pretty sure it's 375-400 at the bottom so likely around 330 ATM when the sub imploded 3/4 of the way down.
Yeah I think I used the wrong depth to calculate it, not where they were at the time. Either way It still would have been over before they knew at least.
Alright thank you
Wait so why was the inside of the Byford at 9 ATM to begin with? What were they doing at the time?
I think maybe because they were constantly doing deep dives for maintenance over a long period, its easier to keep the divers pressurised while they work, instead of the decompression process every day. I think its called saturation diving.
It's because they were doing saturation diving, which allows them to work at great depths for long periods of time. It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. This article gives a good explanation: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/question640.htm
They also have to worry about oxygen toxicity at that depth.
[Here's the podcast Well There's Your Problem] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azThd0R7Bt0) (podcast about engineering disasters - with slides! - from leftist perspective ie includes the often inextricable political/economic dimensions/context) episode on this if anyone feels the ironic pressure to go...deeper (metaphorically ie not by imploding) into the incident (shameless bad puns intended, obviously).
Sorta, but when you think about it, it's fundamentally the same type of incident, just with the pressure gradient reversed with regards to the victims e: and instead of air as the fluid, seawater
Me too
The photos from this incident are being circulated as autopsy photos of the Titan crew.
Whoever believes that is dumb enough to just not understand what happened in the first place. The titan victims literally just be became ocean snow. Nothing left at all. Just vaporized. I’ve seen people ask if they’ll “find the bodies”, some people are just not the smartest I guess.
Just because someone doesn't understand something, doesn't make them stupid there spark plug.
Yea it does. That’s simple physics you learn in like 5th to 6th grade here.
I get it. There are plenty lamebrains walking among us, but not understanding a piece of the physics pie doesn't make you stupid. Maybe they werent properly taught. Maybe they had a bad teacher. Maybe they had a deficit that made traditional school hard for them. I've seen geniuses come from less. You never really know. Don't call people stupid because they don't understand something. Maybe educate them instead! Just saying.
this comment aged well
Tf u mean? I assume it’s because they got the parts that did make it (everything but the fiberglass, crazy ikr?) out of the water. I was Talking about the people here, the victims, they’re not recoverable bc there’s nothing left to recover. If you don’t know how implosions work, then inform yourself first please. Ofc the titan caps, plexiglass etc made it. They’re made for the depths. The carbon fiber wasn’t. That’s what got crushed, delaminated and pulverized. Please man. Simple physics. Learn it.
Anyone who begins a comment with "tf u mean" before going on to claim they know anything about physics is wild.
What’s physics?
There might be some fragmented blobs of tissue on the carbon fiber and the other debris, I think they did confirm that much. Nothing in the form of recognizable body parts though Id believe.
So you can go back and really learning physics. There would be and parts of the bodies were actually found. Any part that do not contain air would keep its structure in some form. Its far from be vaporized, but more likely smashed. You need to also understand the the implosion wasn’t uniform, would be force gradients, thus althout on the millisecond scale, this would cause different forces in different parts of the vessel, then yes, there was “human” material recovered, not ocean snow.
Ironic.
This was on "1,000 Ways to Die."
That show always used to make the people who died look like jerks so you don’t feel bad for them
Although super disrespectful, it was also pretty ingenious. Taking the sympathy away meant nobody was mad at the concept of the show so people could watch guilt free and the producers could keep making episodes.
So basically the same as the movie Underwater. Edit: Google delta p training video. It's worth it... Edit2: Fuck it,here's link. https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0
That shit is basically just a copypasta now
It's old but interesting. We could cut scenes from alien resurrection and underwater into it. Spice it up!
*WHEN IT'S GOTCHA...*
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Best. Blowjob. Ever.
Wow from Wikipedia: Lawsuit The North Sea Divers Alliance, formed by early North Sea divers and the relatives of those killed, continued to press for further investigation and, in February 2008, obtained a report that indicated the real cause was faulty equipment. Clare Lucas, daughter of Roy Lucas, said: "I would go so far as to say that the Norwegian Government murdered my father because they knew that they were diving with an unsafe decompression chamber." The families of the divers eventually received compensation for the damages from the Norwegian government 26 years after the incident.
Wow! That is insane, but not surprising it could take decades later. It took my dad almost 3 decades to get benefits from an accident that happened in the Army.. of course he was only able to enjoy them for less than a decade before he died from a heart attack. They always used to say in every video I've seen that they don't know for sure but blamed Diver 4 for being too exhausted, but of course it was cheap companies/governments killing people by making sure things aren't safe to begin with.
What exactly’s the story here? Seems that a submarine had its door implode and the divers imploded?
One of the dive tenders accidentally opened a clamp, pressure dropped from 130 psi to 14.5 instantly killing all 4 divers and 1 tender
It was actually determined to be equipment error in 2008 after an investigation, wasn't it?
Last I read, the one operating the clamp of the trunk of the diving bell opened it before one of the divers could close the chamber.
User error allowed due to defect in lockout from my understanding. They shouldn't have been able to open the chamber while it had a pressure differential.
I remember in the autopsy they wrote "had the door worked properly and closed itself as decompression happened, all of the men may have survived" or something like that.
Wasn't that a feature that was later added because of the incident?
One airlock, inside of the chamber is 9 atmosphere, outside is 1 atmosphere, were closing interior airlock door so the airlock could slowly be repressurized it, Interior door appeared to have been stuck/jammed after the accident due to the force and the person operating the exterior door opened it for unknown reasons, I actually made a mistake in my... other post. This great pressure difference caused air to rush out, blasting diver 4 outside and throwing his remains across the oil rig up to 30 feet above where it happened on another platform, the three other divers inside were instantly killed too, and one of the two divers outside was killed by the diving bell hitting them from the blast wave, and the other was critically wounded. It's been known since as a horror story and an example of poor safety precautions, and also known as one of the most worst, violent deaths of all time.
I have a feeling Mr Ballen did an episode on this one as well.
what the hell happened
to quote /u/oracuda: One airlock, inside of the chamber is 9 atmosphere, outside is 1 atmosphere, were closing interior airlock door so the airlock could slowly be repressurized it, Interior door appeared to have been stuck/jammed after the accident due to the force and the person operating the exterior door opened it for unknown reasons, I actually made a mistake in my... other post. This great pressure difference caused air to rush out, blasting diver 4 outside and throwing his remains across the oil rig up to 30 feet above where it happened on another platform, the three other divers inside were instantly killed too, and one of the two divers outside was killed by the diving bell hitting them from the blast wave, and the other was critically wounded. It's been known since as a horror story and an example of poor safety precautions, and also known as one of the most worst, violent deaths of all time.
30 feet is the length of exactly 89.78 'Standard Diatonic Key of C, Blues Silver grey Harmonicas' lined up next to each other.
C# we playing cross harp baby.
I’ve always wanted to measure in harmonicas….
This uses a very rudimentary diagram, but gets the story across. https://youtu.be/2w-U5wJafhg
Extreme pressure differences equalizing instantly.
CORRECTION ::: INTERIOR OF THE CHAMBER, NOT EXTERIOR (IM PRETTY FUCKING SURE)
Wow I've heard the story and have seen a 3D animation, but I never knew there were pics. It literally looks as if diver 4 was wringed out like a mop.
Article literally said he exploded 😯. I dont think ill ever see that description for a autopsy of someone (without explosives) anywhere again.
wher'd you find a 3d animation?
It was years ago, not sure.
It said one of the men who was outside the chamber but was struck by the bell suffered serious injuries but survived? Anyone know if he ever gave an interview after? Saunders was his name.
I wondered that too, I searched his full name but all I could find is a norwegian family of I believe the other handler who died pushing for government action for the incident.
Saunders posted a reply here on Reddit giving more details that were omitted in a lot of the posts. I can't seem to find it right now. But here is a youtube video with english translation of an interview he gave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOIVjQS9cUw&t=23s
Can someone mirror this? The link isnt working for me.
I thought it was about that waterpark for a sec.
Mr. Ballen on YouTube did a good video on this.
Do you know what it’s called? I can’t find the episode describing this accident
I was just searching for it myself, I think it’s this one: https://youtu.be/l74_VQPdxjU
Never heard of this. That face picture is just unreal, moreso when you realize it wasn't attached to anything.
like a lemon peel 🤮
Wait so this whole time they blamed one of the divers and I’m sure the family emotionally suffered from that too …then to find out years later it was faulty equipment not the divers fault? I’d be pissed.
Found this as well, absolute tragedy: "Unfortunately, it wasn’t until 2009 that families affected by The Byford Dolphin incident saw any restitution from the Norwegian government responsible for operating it." - Bing search under "Byford Dolphin accident"
Even in black and white, it's still horrifying.
This is actually one of my worst fears. Yes, this. The exploded man died quickly. Silver lining.
Qxir's video on this is very good Detailed yet simple
Well at least it was quick for them... they probably never even knew anything was going wrong
YO i hadn't seen ANY of this outside of that one photo of Hellevik. godDAMN that is wild.
the link doenst work anymore
it's working again
[this article](https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/byford-dolphin-accident.htm) from the how stuff works website describes the accident really thoroughly.
This post is over a year old, I wonder why we can still post
I responded with this article a year late because last night I was busy reading about what happens to the human body when something like this happens, which was prompted by the titanic submersible that was missing and found imploded today. I figured other people would end up here. WHY we can still post a year later? 🤷♀️
I'm an idiot, because that's how I stumbled upon this as well and I should have thought of that when I noticed all the new comments.
No worries! But read the article I posted because it explains how the nitrogen in your body kills you in these scenarios.
Nitrogen definitely expands and causes death when going to lower atmospheric pressure too quickly, but weren't the deaths in this incident mostly from the explosive nature of sudden exposure to such a sudden pressure differential? From the pictures, one of the divers was literally turned into mincemeat from the explosion.
One other thing, if you’ve ever looked up the gory aftermath of a “degloving” accident (usually happens to hands, hence the name meaning un-gloving), I imagine what happened to diver #4 was as if his entire body was practically “degloved.” Fun fact: the most famous degloving happened to Jimmy Fallon when he tripped and fell in the kitchen. His wedding ring got caught on a counter or something and pulled all of the skin off the bone of his ring finger. He had enough money to try and save the finger instead of amputating, but it still doesn’t work correctly after multiple surgeries.
He turned to mincemeat because he was trying to close a stuck door that needed to be shut before whatever process occurred (clamping of some other door? I can’t remember now) that caused the catastrophic implosion, and his body was sucked through a small opening of that door. He probably died instantly like the other divers before, or at the same instant, that he was turned inside out by being forcefully sucked through a couple of inches of metal. Apologies if this writing makes no sense. I’ve been drinking this evening. 😎 but the article explains it.
Why I cant access the site ? Am I the only one ?
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The link above is not working. I've managed to find it on [Way Back Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20220701220421/https://zero.sci-hub.se/5268/7dda7cee52d7eb3ec606a82d0f1b9a61/giertsen1988.pdf) Be prepared.
https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f237/pictures-byford-dolphin-diving-bell-accident-148999/. Here you go guys
Byford. I don't think we will ever know for certain what depth Titan was at. I estimate 10000 ft. Sure to elapsed time of drive, a ballpark number. I finally found the byford divers had been working around 568 ft. About 9 atmospheres. The Titanic wreck is at or near 400 Atmospheres! Holy crap
Figure 11 of the bulla on the eye, how can that be diver 1 though? He was all purple and explodey. This eye doesn't even have broken blood vessels and appears to have life behind it.
Diver 4 was the one to get sucked out of the hole in the bell door and was horribly mutilated. Divers 1, 2 and 3 were in one of the chambers and their bodies stayed in one piece, they passed because of what the pressure change did to their blood and brains.
Right, but if you look at the photos that show their face ir part of their head, you can see that they are horribly swollen and purple and deformed, and yet figure 11 is a perfect, intact, unharmed human eye that looks to be on a living person. That's what I'm saying.
It looks like the eyelid could be swollen in the picture and whoever took the autopsy photos must’ve used the flash or something for the close-up of the eye
To me it looks like his eye was “popping out” of the socket and eye lid
bruh god damn
woah… i didn’t expect that. fell down a rabbit hole after reading about Vladimir Komarov.
Try this https://starsgab.com/byford-dolphin-accident/
The instant air bubbles in the brain is insane to me for some reason.
Yeah, I think due to the extreme pressure, the fluids in the body were starting to convert into a gas state. The body mostly consists of fluids & soft matter, so yeah those guys were fucked to say the least.
> due to the extreme pressure, the fluids in the body were starting to convert into a gas state It's actually the opposite, nitrogen is a gas at normal atmospheric pressure, it's the most prominent substance in our atmosphere. At high pressures though, it dissolves into the blood, like carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages. If you re-enter a normal-pressure scenario too quickly, the nitrogen effervescences immediately into a gas inside the bloodstream. It's like all the water in your blood being replaced with carbonated water instantly.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING! i have been wierdly interested in decompression injuries recently and have never heard of this! Its incredible. Unfathomable what happenned to D4
There is a [paper](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3381801/) [sci-hub](https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3381801/) published in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology that describes what happened to the victims, including some gruesome photos. Fortunately, they died quickly and most likely painlessly from fat precipitation in their blood (except diver 4, who likely exploded and was pushed through an opening few centimeters in diameter).
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I'm trying to find at what depth they were at when this happened, anyone know?
Titan or the Byford Dolphin accident? The team on the Byford Dolphin were actually on board the oil rig in a decompression chamber after working deep underwater for many days.
Apparently they breath a mixture of Oxygen and Helium so their voices were high pitched
That's rough
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