Sucked Through a Tiny Hole - Byford Dolphin Incident 

You can go ahead and just rock me to sleep tonight after sharing this. Yeah, yeah, I know I chose to watch it, and I'd watch it again, but gezz that's a hella way to go.

ah no problem bro. Good vids very very good.

2:37 That should be 14.6 pounds per square inch*, not per square metre.

@@RWBHere I'm guessing that's why the pinned comment says "- At 2:39 the measurement systems got mixed up during production. "14.6 LBS force per square METER" is mentioned which should have been "per square INCH""

As part of international audience please include metric measurements for each imperial version. Such as some text onscreen. It will also help increase your audience.

Lmfao!! Soooo true!! Haha!!

3. Never go cave diving

If that's your full list, you obviously haven't been watching any GunTube. I can think of at least two men who nearly died on camera operating dangerous devices I didn't know were legal for private ownership.

@@mich5924 Firearms are generally safe as long as you are operating them properly and are using the right ammo. For example, Kentucky Ballistics nearly died because he was using counterfeit ammo that produced way too much pressure, but if he'd been using regular .50 BMG he'd have been fine. I understand that guns and gun-usage are scary topics that make people nervous, but calling the gun itself dangerous is just silly. It's no more of a "dangerous device" than a car, lawnmower or grill and I doubt you'd even bat an eye at any of those things.

Those are good lessons!

@@SaschaWiedmann-qu5sz Kennen sie luut schmain?

What they said is facts and not dumb

Especially with no saftey lock or something. I cant believe the rigs design would even allow you to kill an entire crew with such a simple mistake. Its like having a self destruct button at waist level with no glass covering it, someone WILL bump it by mistake. Someone will have a lapse in judgement eventually and thats why redundant saftey protocol is necessary. Maybe theres a reason no such fearure could exist, I would sure like to know.

​@@ChicagoMel23Who said it was dumb and not facts?

@@roycalyptus2474I don’t speak ww2

i mean, it blow their mind too.

It blew theirs too lmao

Wow classy

It didn’t blow anything. It removed everything while turning it into Miniature Matted.

very 80’s-level ISO workplace standards.

I don't even think that's legal anymore.

Who cares? Money! 🤑 They make the world, round!

@@godnyx117 For some. But if I was offered 30 grand, but then told, "There is a chance, you could get sucked through the mail slot in the door." 😆

@@ronnie_5150 For most, unfortunately. Look at people buying at Amazon (and big companies in general, they are all "evil") because it has slightly cheaper prices. Look at people consooming unnecessary stuff. Look at people having to work shitty jobs they hate, in order to support a stupid lifestyle. Anyway, I just woke up and I don't want to start ranting. But you get the point... The average person sucks hard...

Ya...but money.

Remember what narrator said they were paid 34 to 45 thousand dollars PER month!, for the hard work. Sorry, not for me, you can have it.

@@vernonsmith6176exactly. I wouldn’t trade my health for more money.

@@vernonsmith6176 No matter how many they pay, this is inhuman working conditions and should NOT be allowed

I will put both my physical and mental health above any pay wage. Not amount of work is worth putting my safety and well-being, let alone my life, at risk.

buckle up buttercup

Everyone's like "gruesome" and "horrible" and I'm over here like "Sign me up!"

@@exDivinityFPS It will be for the ones who have to do recovery and clean up, and then for us who hear about it and ended up watching videos like this visualizing it.

@@nategreatgames78 Well maybe don't watch the videos and visualize it? If I'mma go, I'd rather it be instant. What happens after that is honestly not my concern at that point, lol

@@exDivinityFPS you sound like an incel.

possibly, but just the thought of it in claustrophobia, is disturbing

Complacency

I work in mining in the north west of Australia, and that would have to be one of the truest statements I've ever read. We work with robots that are quite capable of taking your head off, and never ever do you take them for granted. Full isolation procedures every time before you enter the cell. Always test for dead. The minute you feel pushed for time and cut corners is the day you die.

​@EatinMonstersSince87 More like autonomy. We're biologically engineered to make processes so.

100% true. Everyone's afraid of doing a dangerous job at first. That fear keeps you safe. Once you've done it a thousand times, you stop being scared of it. I almost cut my thumb off on a bandsaw for that reason.

Very true. On so many jobs, the new guys are usually the ones that follow the rules to the letter. The guys that have been there a long time take shortcuts. Not always, but a lot of the time.

this is terrible, this guy's poor relatives

Sounds better than a wood-chipper feet first!

Sounds like he faked his own death.

Horrific

​@@Johnconnohe concluded that indeed, the man was dead

Sounds like something he’d say.

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"That's what she said." -Michael Scott

They went from biology to (literally) inside out.

​@@TheTransporter007that's the joke..

and in the byford case it took almost 30years for the familys to get compensation after the accident and a lengthy court case.

Well sure,,,,how can they do wrong.......sitting at a desk they don't know shit

Good thing i'm not planning on being interested in a job like this

I totally agree! Push for money and time

It should law to compel the big shareholders and bean counters to work for a week in the diving chamber before imposing such callous and unsafe work practices. That includes any work that become needlessly hazardous due to shortcuts and concerns for shareholder profits.

Yup; 45k a month in 1983 is 140k a month today; still wouldn't do it.

Gotta be a balance between good pay and good conditions. One cannot replace the other. Employers need to start viewing their employees as human beings with inherent worth and value, not just a means to increase revenue.

@@myname-in8shI’d do it. I’d be mortgage free after 4 months

​@@HolldollMcGthey don't need to because there will always be people willing to take the money

I would accept it with 3 hours sleep if nobody's life was on the line. But I would not when some other guy is getting 3 hours sleep and he is responsible for my life. Most people suck at their jobs when they get plenty of sleep much less in those conditions.

Uh huh.

The smell would be horrible

@@lazydave9761 insensitive as hell

Oh no

@@pinesappIt's ok, some people get their kicks by being a keyboard warrior. Their personal life is terrible so they take it out on other people online. Never in real life because they're cowards.

this is 100% true, i know from personal experience. its fkn trippy.

what about that brit John something with a thick accent!he sailed the british canal for charity!he had been awake for serveral days!, when asked something from the camera boat, he laughed and said he was talking to a dolphin!

@@johnbernhardtsen3008 lol

it was John Bishop!rowing the british canal!@@dirkdiggler2430

Some people are put on this earth to thin the herd and you must identify them at all cost. Your life may depend on it.

The fact the families weren't charged with some bogus crime to cover their asses is what's truly shocking. That's just standard operating procedure these days.

@@stinne5830 Because people think the government is their parent. In reality, it's just there to guarantee private contracts and organize the military. Nothing else is really suppose to be in it's purview.

@@stinne5830 "I'm from Denmark and so this isn't really my view entirely either, as I really appreciate the relative equal rights to healthcare and social security that is provided here." Ahh, yeah.. That can't work here in the states. Scale alone makes it impossible without the degradation of our liberties, which are set in stone as absolute and FAR more important. America is built and was founded on the idea that without an absolutist form of liberty, there's nothing at all. No point to anything else what-so-ever. If you're not free to an unsafe degree; (Thomas Jefferson's "Dangerous freedom") You're a subject of the state with no middle ground to be had IMO. Might as well lay down and die because there's truly nothing else that matters. That's not even mentioning racial demographics which... Equally a factor but this comment will get removed if I state why. "However, I was just wondering why it isn't the company's responsibility to pay compensation, since it was their faulty or unsafe equipment, which I'm really just assuming." That's one of the few things I agree IS the purview of government. That falls into the "Guaranteeing contracts" category IMO. The company should be forced to compensate the families. To not would violate the NAP. "I'm wondering if the government OK'd the platform or something like that?" Ohh, no idea. I'd assume there was some sort of permitting process but I have no idea how that works. Was the rig in international waters? If so, that will change things. "Or if the blame is rather unfair and if so, why they didn't go for Dolphin Drilling instead." Well, that's an easy one. Oil companies are harder to fight in court than the state in most cases, so your chances of a payout are higher. That's my guess. That's not even mentioning racial demographics which also render any form of viable socialized medicine or health care impossible.

@@stinne5830 " I won't comment much on our differing views of freedom as I'm sure my appreciation of law and order and staunch disbelief of free will would severely trigger any freedom-sworn American such as yourself. " Not really, it'd just make me sad that people can be happy as slaves. What you call "Law and order" we call governmental control. The only laws that need to exist are those that prevent victimization. So no gun laws, no drug laws, no licenses for basic activities such as driving, no stupid, bullshit laws designed to keep you in check and subdued. That's not liberty. "The one thing I will say, and maybe this is indeed because I've never had to worry about money or food, is that if a company was responsible for the death of my close relative, I'd go for them out of principle and vengeance. Perhaps they are just greedy and looking for a pay-out, which usually you would get out of the Norwegian government anyway. " This is my exact thought process on the matter. You see it all the time here in the states with the cops and the "youth" "I just can't understand how it's the money that matters." Ehh, dollar signs do crazy things to people. NGL.. I kinda get it. You where wronged, you want to be compensated somehow.

​@@smugfrog8111 clearly this is not true because otherwise you should be living in hunter gatherer tribes. Any form of government is less freedom. The only reason you even believe this is because you have never experienced dangerous freedom. When roaming gangs start raping and pillaging you will quickly forget about your strong view on liberty and ask for the government to protevt you And no, your rifle is not gonna do jack shit when they show up with mad max tanks and whatnot

Wow, that’s some awful protocol they had made.

*4 hours

Wrong, see any Special Forces Operator or regular forces military service member during combat operations for that matter. You will get almost no sleep and be expected to function to standard.

​@@tedfordsdrumworld910fair point but special forces are built different, a cut above the rest most people would die instantly and melt like a fat sack of shit in a microwave

@ppp90977 the sleep part isn't that hard. The everything else part is hard (SF) but the average person can adapt to extreme conditions if they had too.

But it still sucks!!

This was my dream job when i was younger, im too old to do it now, but in these cases your current earnings go to your family/next of kin

Any job that has me stranded at a location for a long period of job is a job I do not want. Really scary stuff.

$72 an hour by my estimate. 18 hrs a day for 31 days straight. $40000. id rather live.

@@mikes-wv3emim sure you wouldn’t have been hired anyway.

​@@mikes-wv3emDamn, that's actually really shitty pay when you break it down.

My brain hurts and I am not an engineer nor am I studying to become one

Yeah, what is that in rerigerators per football field

Thank you. K was looking for someone to bitch about this. Mixing metric and retard units, and getting it WRONG to boot.

​@notmyrealhandle wtf is a rerigerator?

You can thank AI for that one. It was completely wrong LOL! It's 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi) = 1 atmosphere (atm)

That is an oil rig ass tale if I've ever heard one.

I just read the autopsy report, as graphic as it is i still have that feeling where your mind thinks it’s not real

The autopsy has a crazy picture of one of the guy's faces blown off. But a couple of 'em don't look as bad as you'd think. Some of them are a complete mess, though.

Hard pass.

Almost like a company's only goal is profit

Big oil doesn’t care about the environmental or its workers - no amount of money could make me destroy the planet like that and jeopardise the environment for my children

Some of it was ignorance. The industry was too new to think of every risk. They can’t have a solution to risks they don’t know. A lot of it was because safety wasn’t really that important. Look at everything before the 80s and it was similar. Some examples include F1 racing, optional seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, Ford Pinto, led in gasoline, X-rays, etc.

​@@Kunfucious577It reminds me that F1 pit stop guys didn't wear helmets until one of them got killed by a flying wheel. I think it was in the 90's. Also, no seat bells at all in cars seems insane nowadays. It always triggers me when I see that in old movies. As a kid from the 80's, I lived the time when seat belts were not mandatory in the back seats. Once, I got thrown from my seat onto the the car floor, unharmed, but still a bit shocked. Another time, my sister got thrown frontward and her head hurt the driver 's seat railing. My mom who was driving is small, so the seat was all the way to the front, exposing the rails behind it. My sister' s skull skin was cut open and bleeding quite a lot. No skull damage, but few stiches and a big fear. I can't imagine driving kids around whitout safety now. Can you imagine babies were just put in a cot on the backseat, unattached! 🤯

More like an old low tech... outdated systems always pose greater potential for these incidents.

They do now, but back then they relied on specific orders.

It's essentially a pressure cooker with a vise clamp holding it closed, nothing high tech about it

Not to mention being yanked out of existence

You say that but as a young guy doing the math real quick, it said they were being paid $30-45k/month in the video. Modern money vs 83 that means on the top end it could be up $140k/month assuming you probably don't do that year round you're making probably $250-500k per year and can work a part time job when not doing that. Live like you're very poor while doing that for 5 to 10 years and you'd never have to work again, put it in finances like stocks and retire young to enjoy the rest of your life fairly wealthy and leave a good amount behind for family. I mean you could own a house fully paid off in one to two years. As a young guy with hindsight into what happened here I'd say no, but if I was there and had the opportunity to do it like these guys did with no idea this would happen I mean sign me up. One terrible decade but afterwards everything would be good sounds too much like a dream come true when you're young

How I felt hearing 18 hours a day 3 hours of sleep. "Man screw tha--" *30-45k a month* ($90-140k a month adjusted for inflation) "...hmm..."

@@Lion-tq7ob yeah really sign me up

Military is probably just as bad at times but gets paid less even with the free housing and medical allowance

Like oceangate.

@@Colin_Yes I suppose the Titan was a subject of explosive decompression, with water instead of air. The crew had no idea that they perished, it remains with the eternal question...life after death? Then they _would_ know.

I thought explosive decomposition was you burst like a balloon.

Sadly, you can feel milliseconds: saying half of the word "Mississippi" takes less than one second.

​@@TheGeezzerquite the opposite. In the case of Oceangate the capsule was at 1 ATM and the surrounding water at approx. 400 ATM. They first burned due to intense heat of compressed air and the crushed by the water.

Indeed. Having seen the pictures tho, I have to say the 3 guys that weren't sucked into the hole, looked quite normal aside from some skin discoloration. They weren't, as the video put it at 8:30 "unrecognizable" or some blobs of blood and fat. Just 3 relatively normal looking bodies. The one who got sucked in...yeah, looked exactly what you'd imagine.

This is a big issue in Canada, and was brought to the forefront a few years ago, with a tragic accident. I would say that they haven't done much since, because the powers-that-be just don't care. As long as the politicians have their graft, and for those who are semi-honest, their PENSIONS, we will never have administrators (for that's all they are! including Prime Ministers and Presidents) that work for the common good.

What was truck driving like before Jimmy Carter deregulated it? It seems like bad (even malevolent) industry practices flooded in after that.

@BlackPill-pu4vi That is because the world is moving too fast. We sacrifice safety only for the end result of products and services, and when one f*** up happens, a liability is always held accountable even when that liability is pressured into doing something unsafe. Unsafe actions become habit forming as a norm, but again, when the time comes, the liability is thrown to the wolves. It's like that time between 2005-2008, there was a problem with salmonella in our produce, one most notibly with spinach and we still to have that issue popping up to date with that and other contaminants in our consumables. That is how fast we are moving. We will put stuff on the shelves and up to weeks later, that is when an announcement is made only after an X amount of people turn ill.

Genuinely sounds like we're still in the Medieval times

amen! i work for a big company that has safety stuff they throw in your face daily, but then mandate 60 hours when the 'need' arises. they dont give a damn if people get hurt or die; as long as their pockets get fat and they dont have to worry about being sued because they show assinine 'safety' videos frequently to satisfy 'osha' requirements! and im convinced the company i work for has bought out more than one of them too!😡

Thank you for sharing your story! I appreciate you being cool about the images used, I will add your name in the description!

Wow

Dang..

Just the though of its gives me panick attack

Weak genes 😂😂

​@@Visitwarriorbulliescomwhat a pussay 😂

Yeah, you don't get a job like that without a basic psyc eval to weed out the people who don't work under pressure (no pun intended), have issues like claustrophobia, etc. Same thing for astronaughts, fighter pilots or any other other high-stress (mentally _and_ physically) jobs. Companies that _don't_ do this and just put "anyone anywhere 'cuz people can learn" have terrible track records because they get people killed.

They don't make men like they used too.

I would prefer this way to go over waisting away in a hospital bed. At least people are talking about you 20 years after.

They died instantly. The only one who suffered was the survivor.

Horrific for the people who have to clean this mess. For the people who died: not that horrific, since they didn't even have time to realize what happened. They just went Boom! in an instance.

@@Oozaru85 yes. only the friends family and loved ones feel pain.

The lucky ones inside, the pressure so great they wouldn't feel any pain, it just be sudden unconscious and death as their bodies including brain explode. The poor bugga who was squeezed through the tiny gap of the door also would have died in about 2 seconds

Thank you!!!

Knew something sounded weird there, lol

Came here to say this! Not only is it wrong, it mixes imperial and SI units!

I could cuddle with 14.6 Pounds per square meter

My sister's home cooked overly under cooked rubbery meals are pure fear every per square inch of the plate 😳

Typical corpos, telling the people who ACTUALLY DO THE JOB how they should do it, and at what speed.

@@counthypeula4095 well in defense oil and gas are VITAL for modern society even more so in the 80s no this does not justify them they are in the wrong for risking people's lives for an extra week or two.

Just think about that “14.6lbs per square metre” for a second…

yeah man true

They probably cooked it on the grill after words to find out.

@@user-ue3xb8tz1u Delish!

​@@user-ue3xb8tz1uyou must be 12

​@@user-ue3xb8tz1u 😨

Our body tissues are different throughout. Worst cast scenario they’d inspect the tissues of the body part found and identify it to belonging to one part of our body system or another.

A large number of them still do. They are willing to take the risk and hope nothing goes wrong.

This wasn't a corporation though, this was the state oil company of Norway. It shows how putting profits over lives isn't exclusive to capitalism. Non-unionized workers are just pawns of the powerful, this has been the case since the beginning of history.

It could be horrible for the ones who saw it and understood what happened rather than the ones who died, despite dying instantly it wasn't a beautiful death neither.

ye he was more so talkin bout the people that had to go down there and see that, but i agree with you

That's what I said. Even the poor guy that got sucked into the door wouldn't have known anything as it was over in a split second. Horrible certainly, to read about though!

It’s still a horrible death, in the matter that they did, regardless if they felt it or not.

Bull

Thank you for sharing your story!

8 hours is maximum for me. Ill never work a job that requires me to work longer than 8. no amount of money can change my mind. I got family, I got friends, I got hobbies. I dont wanna spend 24 hours working and sleeping. what kind of a life is that?

@@IASP17 I wrote a long essay as a reply but reading it a couple of times I decided not to send it. You are right, when you have family, stability, friends and getting older, you shouldn't do that but there are situations in life when it's either necessary or you have no choice but to hammer life and try to climb up the ladder.

Why not work 18 hours? They're confined to the pressurized environment. Working the normal 8 hours a day would mean they spent more than twice as long confined in that pressurized room.

@@TheRocco96 You'd work more effectively if you at least get 8 hours of sleep per day and a couple hours to rest and eat. So maybe 12 hours of work max. Working 18 hours straight with 3 hours of sleep is asking for trouble.

Probably was fatigued too

@@TheRocco96 I can't imagine working 8 hours a day, every day. Where do you find time to live? How do you have hobbies, or interests, or even energy to do anything but sleep in preparation for the next day? People that can do that are truly admirable to me because I simply cannot. I made it 3 months at such a job before I had a minor mental breakdown and literally ran out of the building. I found something else thankfully but god damn. Just reading "work 8 hours" gave me a mild anxiety attack.

@@smugfrog8111you are present 8 hours...you don´t work 8 hours straight. in an office at least...I had whole shifts of 8,9 or even 12 hours without anything to do and that is really hard to endure

I was on rigs late 80' & 90's as a service hand. During well completion or well testing many companies did not have the manpower to work shifts.

Doubt he was in state to really see anything just after the accident.

He was probably knocked unconscious just as quickly as his fellow counterparts died.

The percentage is low, but the actual amount (by mass) of oxygen you need (and which is present) is the same.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1035367/

What are the symptoms of having their brain shrunk? Is it just smaller because of the pressure or are they brain damaged?

@@brendalg4 Damage, i'd say. If it was just the pressure, it would expand back to regular size. Excessive drinking can also cause the brain to shrink. Like, when you switch to denatured alcohol because it's cheaper.

​@@klausstock8020 Exactly ... percentage is low because the pressure is insanely high.

You can still find the images of the deceased. Not super bad, but bad enough.

The guy still had on his watch@@TucsonDude

*I can NEVER UN-See the ELection of DonaLd Trump!!!!*

@@Justin.Martyr - No one cares

The autopsy report of crammond was something else. It was just so messed up you couldn’t really tell what you were seeing which somehow made it less gruesome

Yeah a free ascent of more than 100 feet with zero dive gear is low survival

It actually depends. If the sub imploded violently, everybody would most probably pass out and drown. If you escaped from a pressurized escape air lock, there is a chance that you could swim to the surface in about three minutes, only slightly bent if you spent less than a minute in the airlock. The air in your lungs would expand about ten times, so it would be a continuous exhalation, without the need to inhale. However, that is only if you don't pass out due to oxygen toxicity, nitrogen narcosis or ruptured ear drums if you fail to equalize while in the airlock. So yes, chances of survival from such depth are pretty slim.

I didn't know SS had submarines.

I thought submarines operated at 1 bar and the hull resisted the pressure. Are the interiors pressurised?

@@Slash1066 They do operate at 1 bar, he's talking shit about getting the bends.

Definitely!

Logging is the most dangerous job on the planet by 70 percent. Next runner up is commercial fisherman. I've done both. Going into that underwater ship of theirs sounds terrifying though.

@@joem3999 I've worked as a commercial fisherman and it is very dangerous but I would say that this is more dangerous because if something goes wrong your a dead man, you can be killed as a commercial fisherman but most of the time it's just injuries, working in those depths there are so many things that can go wrong and when it does your a dead man, all these jobs are dangerous but I would say that this one is the scariest because no one is going to hear you scream.

pays 50K a month though

@@charlesrichter3854 Mining makes the top ten at least. Look it up.

Wrong. The diving equipment was only 8 years old at the time of the accident, it wasn't outdated for that time. The accident happened over 40 years ago, the entire culture around oilfield safety has changed a lot since then. I know, I was there for the before and after. Is it perfect now? Hardly, but then neither are many other industries which expose workers to dangerous situations. Today's diving equipment is far safer of course, just as today's commercial aircraft are far safer than they were 40 years ago. Why? Because people had to die to expose shortcomings in equipment and procedures, forcing governmental agencies to change regulations applicable to the particular industries. Like it or not, it's the way the world works.

It's the same reason you might see a traffic light installed at an intersection that needed it. Sometimes, it's because a person (or several) died there first. New safety regulations and procedures are more often than not written with the blood of those that inspired it. @@ww748

That's to prevent an air embolism.

As he also said, "there's no way this can be confirmed." I have doubts they were just blinked out of existence. It's possible I suppose, but I've also heard a lot of stories about divers who have survived being decompressed extremely quickly. The will to survive can be extreme itself. There are also many types of animals that can survive such extreme fluctuations, so I wouldn't assume these guys all went from all good to instantly gone. There was probably a second or two of their bodies feeling the you-know-what as it hit the fan.

Because dying is worst than beinf crippled for life as one include DEATH but hey if youre not scared of death good for you

That’s PER MONTH

It didn't...

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Glad you enjoyed it! A lot of time and fine tuning goes into these. Thank you for the recognition 😇

I get what you are saying and i agree, it is one of the most brutal work accidents. but Chernobyl takes the tragic "cake" hopefully forever.

What happened to a japanese nuclear plant worker, Hishashi Ouchi, was much worse.

Thank you! Means a lot.

Thank you! I will continue to do my absolute best and keep improving where I can! Love your profile picture btw 😇

​@@Storified1❤️