1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, there's Chuck, 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: there's j j. Let's get started. It's one of the 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: most gruesome things that has ever happened in the history 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: of the world. Yeah, and probably the most grewesome thing 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: that's ever happened on this show. Yeah. I don't think 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: it's probably about it and we've talked about some gruesome stuff, 7 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: but we should probably give a little c o a here, 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: Like the stuff we're gonna talk about is kind of 9 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: graphic of people dying and being mutilated. So just heads 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: up on that one. I just looked at the pic. 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: Thank you, yes anytime. I can't believe you hadn't so far. Yeah, 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: I avoided it. So until you say the full color one? 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: Is that the one you looked at? Just now you're 14 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: talking about the tray of Yes? Okay, alright, so how 15 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: everyone knows what we're talking about? Uh? There was and 16 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: still is. It sounds like a drilling rig called the 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: Biford Dolphin. Uh. Now it looks like it's contracted out 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: by BP I think so. And in November on November 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: that was in the North Sea, a very horrific accident, 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: an explosive decompression accident that occurred on the Byfor Dolphin 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: or not on the Bifor Dolphin, but but very far 22 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: under the sea. No, no, it was on the Biford Dolphin. 23 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: But does that mean I thought this happened below deck? 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: Let me take this, Let me take this. You're ready? 25 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 1: All right? Good night. So the whole thing, the whole 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: thing centers around saturation diving. Yeah, I get it, Sure, 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: I get okay, Okay, So well let's explain to the 28 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: peeps at home at saturation diving is then, okay, it 29 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: means you can live down there basically in work. Yeah, 30 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: So like if you're working on the Biford Dolphin, you 31 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: could be drilling into, you know, thousands of feet um 32 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: of a bedrock under the sea to get to whatever 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: gas or oil you're after. And so you might be 34 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: working hundreds and hundreds of feet down every day, which 35 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: means that when you come back up, as if you 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: listen to our cave diving episode, you've got to decompress. 37 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: And if you're going to decompress, that takes time. So 38 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: that means that you know, it could take hours and 39 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: hours every day after your shift to decompress before you 40 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: can finally come up to the surface. So since that's 41 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: just so ridiculously inefficient, um, they've come up with this 42 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: thing called saturation diving, which kind of gets around decompressing 43 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: every day. Yeah. Plus you gotta keep him on the clock, 44 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: you know, while you're decompressing, you gotta pay for the decompressing. Yeah, alright, 45 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: So the way I understand it is they, like you said, 46 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: it's more efficient to stay down there and work, which 47 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: they do, but they don't live down there necessarily like 48 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: in the Abyss right right, they come back up to 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: the ship, but the whole journey from sea floor to 50 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: ship is pressurized at the same pressure, is that right? 51 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: It is? And then once they get to the ship, 52 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: they have to live and stay in these pressurized environments 53 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: so that they don't have to decompress every day. So 54 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: they're working down on the sea floor and then there 55 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: live being on the ship, and then they're traveling between 56 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: the two and a pressurized diving bell. But the point 57 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: is is everywhere they are for weeks on end, during 58 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: their shift or their their stint or hitch, that's what 59 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: they call it, their hitch of working the sea floor, 60 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: they're living in this pressurized environment whether it's on the ship, 61 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: in the diving bell or down on the sea floor, 62 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: it's all pressurized to the atmosphere, the atmospheric pressure of 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: the work site down on the sea floor. And this 64 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: makes a lot more sense now. Yeah, I was under 65 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: the impression it was like the Abyss and they all 66 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: just lived down there and played cards and made pithy remarks, 67 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: complained about the food. It was a good movie. Though. 68 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: It was a great movie, so this does make a 69 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: lot more sense. So basically, the hatches of the diving 70 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: bell and the ship chamber are all lined up and 71 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: clamped together by these divers that are on the outside 72 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: dive tenders, yeah, dive tenders. And that's where it becomes 73 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: a little bit like a movie. You move from one 74 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: to one and make sure everything is super tightly clamped 75 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: together obviously because it's all super pressurized. Yeah, and to 76 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: like hook the diving bell up to um the pressure 77 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: chambers where they like live and eat and play cards 78 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: and give pithy remarks to one another on the ship. 79 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: That's all pressurizes if it's you know, at nine atmospheres 80 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: down on the sea floor. Even though outside of those 81 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: chambers on the ship it's at one atmosphere, it's at 82 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: sea level pressure. You can't just pop out and have 83 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: a smoke, No, you cannot. You have to stay in 84 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: what's what is that gerbil habitat called you know what 85 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You can put like a bunch of 86 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: tubing and stuff together and let your gerbil run around. 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: So this is basically what these divers lived in. And 88 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: it was all pressurized. And so when you're traveling from 89 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: you know, the sea floor up to the chambers on 90 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: the ship and this diving bell and you clamp the 91 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: diving bell onto the pressurized chamber, you need to make 92 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: sure that the tunnel that connects the two is pressurized 93 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: and then you can open up the hatch and then 94 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: move into the chamber, shut the hatch, de pressure eyes 95 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: that that um that little tunnel, and then remove the 96 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: diving bell and you're fine. It's just a lot of 97 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: extra work and thoughtfulness to live like this for weeks 98 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: on end for saturation diving, but it means that you'll 99 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: only have to decompress once at the end of the 100 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: several week hitch before you go out into sea level atmosphere. Right, 101 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: and given what's going on, you would think that there 102 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: is a robust system of fail safes and check marks 103 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: and hand signals to make sure that everything is hooked 104 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: up and sealed tight in order to maintain that pressure. 105 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: And today you'd be right, but in three not necessarily, 106 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: that's right. So we're gonna take a break and tell 107 00:05:40,800 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: you what happened on November of that year, right after this. Alright, 108 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: So here's what happened on number November five. There was 109 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 1: a team of four divers down there working in the 110 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: frig gas field in the North Sea. Uh, there were 111 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: two divers in a bell and that's we talked about. 112 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: We I think we did a whole podcast on a 113 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: diving bell, didn't me. Yeah, yeah we did. We totally did, 114 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: which is kind of weird to think of. But yeah, 115 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: I remember because remember that one cook on that ship 116 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: from Nigeria that went down, he managed to like live 117 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: in like a little air pocket for a couple of days. Yeah. 118 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: So the diving bell is is the chamber that takes 119 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: people back and forth. It's the taxi basically transporting them 120 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: from the work site back up to these pressurized chambers 121 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: on the ship. Um it had just been cranked up 122 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: to the surface and they were crawling through this passageway 123 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: it's called a trunk to this attached sealed decompression chamber, 124 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: which is where they lived and worked and or lived 125 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: in eight and made exactly don't forget the cards, and 126 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: you got to complain about the cooking. And then there 127 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: was a chamber another chamber pretty similar nearby that had 128 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: two more of the diving team. And then each of 129 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: these chambers, this trunk, the bell, and the chamber were 130 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: all completely pressurized. And again the system was in place, 131 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: and it had worked pretty well up into this point. Yeah, 132 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: but for some reason, on this particular day, one of 133 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: the two dive tenders, one of the divers who were 134 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: outside in the normal pressure atmosphere outside of this pressurized chamber. 135 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: They their job was to assist in making sure the 136 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: diving bell was clamped up to the trunk correctly and 137 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: opening and closing valves and stuff like that. One of 138 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: them unclamped the diving bell from the trunk. Before them, 139 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: the hatch had been shut, closing off the divers in 140 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: their their quarters. They're deep, they're pressurized quarters. This was catastrophic. 141 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: It's what it did, was it introduced the normal one 142 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: atmosphere of atmospheric pressure into the pressurized dive chambers, which 143 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: were pressurized to nine atmospheres, and in a fraction of 144 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: a second, the pressure inside of these things went from 145 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: an extremely compressed nine atmospheres to an extremely decompressed one 146 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: atmosphere again in less than a second. And it was 147 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: it was again catastrophic, is the only way to put it. Yeah, 148 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 1: this is something that they would take nine, eleven, twelve 149 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: hours to decompress usually, and it happened in under a second. 150 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: It caused an explosion. A decompression explosion killed all four 151 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: of these divers, uh, and the dive tender immediately. Uh. 152 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: They did a follow up study, of course, they found 153 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: that the three of the divers were were literally killed instantly. 154 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: And I guess we need to say this right. Yeah, 155 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: so the diver, uh, their bodies ruptured. Basically, the diver 156 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: closest to the door, his organs, spine, and limbs, it said, 157 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: were ejected, and his remains exploded through a narrow gap 158 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: in that chamber door. Yeah. Before this happened so fast 159 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: and he was pulled apart so violently that before that 160 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: chamber door that he hadn't gotten shut yet could slam shut. 161 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: About half of them shot out in a burst of 162 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: like blood and gore through that that narrow opening. As 163 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: this the hatch door was slamming shut from the pressure. Yeah, 164 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: they said that they found his liver on the deck 165 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: of the boat, quote complete, as if dissected out of 166 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: the body. Right, And so they think what happened. So 167 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: the other three they all died instantly, But the other 168 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: three their bodies were intact. But what had happened is 169 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: the their their organs and their blood vessels at all 170 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: rupture because the gases that were dissolved in their blood 171 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: at that moment suddenly just expanded and just burst everything 172 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: inside of them. But the guy who was pulled apart 173 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,599 Speaker 1: exploded so violently because he was the closest to that 174 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: pressure gradient in between one atmosphere and nine atmosphere, and 175 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: he was he was pulled apart by that pressure gradient, 176 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: like part of him was a little further away from 177 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: the door than the rest of him, and that difference 178 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: was enough to just be pulled apart by the by 179 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: this explosion. Yeah. The only thing that I can say 180 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: that is good about this was that it was so 181 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: fast there was not even a moment of panic. Of 182 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: what just happened. There was no fear, even much less pain. 183 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: It was just you're going back into the chamber and 184 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you wake up sitting on a cloud, 185 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: going what just happened? Where did I get this loot? Yeah? 186 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: Basically or herp it's a heart. At least it was 187 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: that fast that there certainly was no pain involved, but 188 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: also no fear or anything. It was just lights out right, 189 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: And so you might think like, well, wait a minute, 190 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 1: how did this guy even begin to get this clamp 191 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: open that that allowed the pressurized chamber to depressurized catastrophically. Well, 192 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: that's what a lot of people said afterwards, and so 193 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: the Norwegian Oil Directorate and the regulations body Norsk Veritas 194 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: basically said, this can never happen again. If you have 195 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: an old like um saturation diving system set up, you 196 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: have to retrofit it following these new specifications that make 197 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: it this impossible, Like you couldn't possibly open a clamp 198 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: um before the trunk has been like depressurized, before the 199 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: hatch has been shut, before all this stuff happens to 200 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: the its an actual fail safe. Yeah, And the thinking 201 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: all along was that it was a human error, that's 202 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: what the report said, fatigue or just you know, somebody 203 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: made a mistake. But it seems like years later some 204 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: of these relatives of the of the gentlemen that were 205 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: killed got their hands on a report that said it 206 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: was actually faulty equipment. So there you go. Yeah, and 207 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: where did this come from? Who do we have to 208 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: thank for this? We've got a lot of people to thank. Um, 209 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: everybody from History Channel too. There was a guy on 210 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: Reddit actually named spectrum Merrow who did a great job 211 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,599 Speaker 1: of explaining saturation diving in this particular accident. So I 212 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: gotta got a handful of people to thank for this one. 213 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: Good stuff, Yeah, well, terrible stuff but interesting nonetheless. Yeah, 214 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: there you go. Check. I think he saved us at 215 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: the last minute. Uh. Well, thanks a lot for joining us. 216 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: We hope that you can carry on the rest of 217 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:53,479 Speaker 1: the day without um shuddering good luck. Uh. In meantime, 218 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: short stuff is out. 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