The fact that they cheaped out on safety equipment and left Martin Saunders to rot... and the government waited 26 years and all that negative shit... Working 14-18 hours in such crammed spaces even. This makes me furious.
So basically the company couldn't/didn't help the families because that could be viewed as tacit admission-of-fault Goooood stuff. There's nothing wrong
Dr. Raugstad must be one hell of a doc to piece a man together from something like this. I'm sure he's had a bit of reconstructive plastic surgery down the line, but you look at Saunders in the pictures here without the context, and you would never guess he had been in a catastrophic decompression accident where the other guys all exploded, it's impressive that he could eventually stand and walk again. Great medicinal work from the doctor, and great resilience and dedication from the patient.
Yup, the fact that he can walk after having fractures in both the back and neck is impressive (or luck) The central nervous system is truly complex. A neighbor of mine fell backwards and hit his neck in a rock and left him paralyzed from the waist and down and this guy got hit by 4.5 metric ton diving bell coming at him at full speed. It's all about where the location of the fracture is. He was still in a lot of pain when he was interviewed in 2009. He had good days and bad days and he also said in the interview he had pretty much been bedridden for the last 14 months.
If he’s still alive he’s now about 71 years old. If he stumbles upon this video, I wish him well and hope he got better physically and mentally. Byford Dolphin is probably the most horrific accident I’ve ever heard. I also hope the family of others team members, especially Truls Hellevik, were able to find some closure.
He's got a profile here on RU-vid, but I keep forgetting the name of the channel. He lives in Italy and posted a couple aerial videos of the place he lives. Only minutes ago I came across his Airbnb profile and he used the photo from my video as his profile pic haha. that's sweet. I looked up Hellevik's daughter (or actually stepdaughter) on Facebook and she has a photo of her and Truls together, 40 years after he died, so I'm pretty sure he was a pretty significant person in her life. I feel bad for stalking like that, even if there's no malicious intent behind it, but hey, we're all a little curious every now and then :)
If bill crammond survived, he would feel very guilty for the reason his colleagues got killed. But he had no idea due to exhaustion, winds being louder than orders, and waves
Hey! Axel aka « jee_man » here! Always nostalgic about my time playing with you guys and our community on the forum. Time flies! This era will always be in my heart
haha damn, I forgot I even had uploaded this video. Your name sure brings back memories. I kinda lost interest in the game itself, but that era was beautiful. The server was never empty because you had players from all over the place. RIP MSC Gene Simmons and CAPITANKASAR
@@Antarath yep most of us moved on. But the memories are still vivid. At the time I played a lot with a friend under the nickname « MasterJedi » you probbly remember him. Still in contact with him on facebook. It’s sad to think some of us aren’t alive anymore, especially CapitanKasar as he was very young wasn’t he? Like probably in his 20s back in the days?
There's 69 people who died on norwegian trigs whose names or accidents are not mentioned in any official register. The oil companies will not take any responsibility for any accident that occurs on their rigs.
One of the most shocking and heinously corrupt stories I have ever heard...I don't know if how these men died is more shocking or how their families would have starved to death if it weren't for others around them who were just as bad off....our government has a helluva alot more to answer for then we will ever know...rest in peace and many blessings to all those who were left behind 😔
Everyone makes mistakes, especially under such pressure. My part time job is at campbells snacks, which makes goldfishes. Ive worked there for a while and me and a coworker usually run production. The full time coworker was sick one day so it was just me and I forgot a step or two and put the goldfish stamper on incorrectly. Because of this it wasnt functional and only imprinted out 1/5 of what it should. I was so caught up in other things I didnt notice until an hour later when the person down stream from production and the ovens started to notice large uncut dough and hit the e-stop. They came up to me and saw what happened and it escalated to engineers. To managers. It was so embarrassing. I felt dumb and awful. It was an hour of production and effort wasted. The manager fixed the stamper and set someone up with me and brushed it off. I felt bad for days. And it was just wasted product. No one got hurt. It wasnt shipped to customers. Mistakes are unavoidable. I cant imagine a mistake that kills others. Just awful. I hope all heals.
I did construction for a while and in one of the major communities I worked in, a house burned down before anyone even lived in it due to an electrical mess up in the kitchen. It’s irrational but if I was an electrician I’d be paranoid I was going to accidentally burn someone’s house down 24/7.
less than 8 hours to rest. worse still, their job is safety critical. I read some write something like "do not work with heavy machinery after discussing with your wife, else will be you last day". All they had to do for a fatal accident was being in a bad mood not doing things with the proper temperament, someone forgetting something, a lapse of judgement, being too tired to do it properly, being too slow to notice something, or just falling sleep "at the wheel". All things lack of a good rest causes. They were asked to not fail, else someone lose their job or dies, while being setup for complete failure.
Very true, and saturation diving is one of those jobs where everything has do be done correctly in the right order, or you may risk the lives of all the divers and/or yourself. There is no workaround. You can't fool physics. I never got into how saturation diving works back when my dad did it (1983-2002), only a couple of years ago.
В окне автобуса поплыл ебаный военкомат А тёлки тупо сбились в кучу, машут, что-то кричат - Ну что ты - в армии, нахуй Оуо, теперь ты в армии, нахуй Кругом затылки мудаков тебе подобных блестят И мысль одна на всех снуёт: По ним вперёд и назад. Пиздец, я в армии нахуй. Оуо, теперь я в армии, нахуй. Теперь я в армии нахуй. Оуо, я типа в армии, нахуй. Потом мудной распределитель, Сто дебилов в трусах А дальше форма, бля, учебка, бля, Присяга, бля, затрах Ты, сука, в армии, нахуй Оуо, ты, сука, в армии, нахуй Ты, сука, в армии, нахуй. Оуо, ты, сука, в армии, нахуй. Я задремал на дне окопа И мне снится кровать. Я задремал на дне окопа И мне снится кровать. Но слышу крик старшины: "Ёб твою мать !" Ты, сука, в армии, нахуй. Оуо, ты, сука, в армии, нахуй. Ты, сука, в армии, нахуй. Оуо, ты, сука, в армии, нахуй. Святыни дембеля мы будем Отмечать до седин И в этот день мы будем пить И пиздить всех, кого хотим. Мы были в армии, нахуй. Оуо, бля, мы были в армии, нахуй. Мы были в армии, нахуй Оуо, мы были в армии, нахуй.
Scary enough to think that if they would simply choose to work in a mcdonalds for minimum wage they and their families could have ended up much better.
Well, these saturation divers earn A LOT and no-one expected an accident like this to happen. They knew it COULD happen though. I mean, in 55 years, it has only happened once. It's the shitty disability insurance that ruined him at the end. It's shitty even here in Norway, but our health care is free, even for foreigners. My father was a sat. diver for 19 years by the way, and I'm glad I didn't know how dangerous this job was back then.
I’m not surprised these men were overworked and exhausted……on oil rigs you’re worked like a dog. My hubby has been in that industry for almost 20 years flying helicopter and doing medevac and he has some awful stories of men being gravely injured on the rigs. The worst one he saw was when a young man had his leg ripped off and the following day the young man’s supervisor committed suicide because he felt responsible for the accident. It’s sad that money trumps human health in the oil industry 😢
I guess I always assume people who survive things like this, including the surviving relations, live in as much comfort as mere wealth can provide. That they should be allowed by anyone of us to live in ongoing poverty shames me deeply, but I’m not less lost for what to do about it than I ever was. I do pray for them, and I know it’s God who sustains us all and takes our lives whenever He does, so it’s not nothing to pray for someone. He’s also the only one who can help with that which wealth won’t matter to, so I think it’s good that some of us are still standing that watch for them. 🙏🏻
Rest in peace. Working 14-18 hours in such extreme conditions, pressure, with little sleep , is not easy. Company is here to blame. They didn't prepare enough safety standards for their employee, that do hardest work. They were even under stress, as waves and storm were approaching and already hiting the platform. The human mistake is here expectable. To not making pressurized chamber safe way, and count, human error cannot occur under such conditions, is sin.
With the amount of money the Norwegian government (and all governments) waste on absolute BS these days, they fought giving these men's families a settlement for decades?? Absolutely appalling. So many government officials are worse than whores.
If the oil company can put the blame on a person they will, much like airlines/aircraft companies try to blame pilot error for a crash. He may have also been a contractor and not employed by a company which makes things worse. I work in the oil industry and they are a bunch of sh*tbags. I'm not even sure if people make such good money these days, in my own job I earn less than half what I did 10 years ago.
Damn when he talked about how they grew up in poverty and he had to beg his parents for money. I thought they deep sea oil divers made a lot of money? I cannot believe that company didn’t pay the families. This wouldn’t have happened if it was in the US.
Yeah I have no idea what the purpose of those vertically allowed hinges is. I believe they're still made like that. If the door to the sleeping chamber and living chamber had been closed as well, at least three of them would have survived, and maybe even Crammond as well since only the transfer chamber would have decompressed. Hellevik wouldn't have a chance anyways. Might have been less violent though.
@@Antarath You can see a man trying to shut a similar door here: fGcp44tTtwI "Decompression Chamber" . It gets jammed because the door angles into the rim of the opening and he has to correct it with his other hand. It was probably the same situation with the Byford otherwise the door would have slammed shut (unless it was fully open). I assume that's what reports mean when they say the door got jammed. I don't know what the style of door is called but I expect one purpose is to halve the swing radius so it doesn't get in the way.
@@sherry8444 Yeah makes perfect sense as the chamber and bells are not very spacious. Interesting video you linked to. Never seen wet bell divers run to the deco. chamber like that. Cool!
Another industrial accident that happened because of pure greed and carelessness of the people in charge. And again its the innocent hard workers that paid the price. Poor men
Well not according to Saunders, who said he saw Crammond open the clamp (Dagbladet 2009). I have tons of scanned news articles from 1983 that states they initially thought the accident was caused by a faulty bolt, but it turned out the bolt was fine. It's true that the families were compensated in 2009.
@@warrax111 it's just such a tragic incident. I can even understand if it was human error - the ridiculously long hours they worked, and the noise from the wind and the ship leading to misunderstandings as to when the hatch/door inside was closed. Very sad.
He is not a diver at all. He was a specialist in physics and pressure. He was responsible for pressurizing the chambers (habitats)... All the drivers have died instantly in less than a second because the air of yheirbbody was sucked out
@@Antarath haha yes robin and i used to bully dark messanger on the server not verbally but by teaming up against him. Maybe you and i met but my memory is vague take care and Merry christmas
No you have to subscribe to the digital archive to be able to see it. it's all in Norwegian though. That photo of Truls is from Myheritage. I found one more of the girl's facebook.
