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Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally for various companies in the British, Danish, and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. It was registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. [ 1] In 2019, Dolphin scrapped the rig.
Truls Hellevik 5 November 1983: The 34-year-old Norwegian diver was explosively dismembered in a diving bell accident on the North Sea Byford Dolphin drilling rig. Three other divers, Edwin Arthur Coward, Roy P. Lucas and Bjørn Giæver Bergersen, and dive tender William Crammond, were also killed. Crammond opened the clamp before Hellevik ...
Decompression incidents do not occur solely in aircraft; the Byford Dolphin accident is an example of violent explosive decompression of a saturation diving system on an oil rig. A decompression event is often the result of a failure caused by another problem (such as an explosion or mid-air collision), but the decompression event may worsen ...
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English: Overhead diagram of the diving bell compression chamber in the Byford Dolphin at the moment that the accident occurred (D1 – D4 are the divers; T1 and T2 are the dive tenders), J.C. Giertsen et al., American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 9(2):94-101, 1988.
The Wildrake diving accident was an incident in Scotland in August 1979 that killed two American commercial divers. During a routine dive in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea , the diving bell of the diving support vessel MS Wildrake became separated from its main lift wire at a depth of over 160 metres (520 ft).
Aviation accidents and incidents involving in-flight depressurization (1 C) Pages in category "Decompression accidents and incidents" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Byford was born in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, the youngest of four children to Ernest Charles and Irene Byford. He has a brother, a half-sister from his father's side, Enid, who is 20 years older than him and a half-brother Michael from his mother. [3] Byford was just 11 years old when his mother died.