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Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Energy. Byford Dolphin was registered in Hamilton, Bermuda , [ 1 ] and drilled seasonally for various companies in the British, Danish, and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea .
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 ...
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.
Gross dismemberment may also be caused by a fall at terminal velocity onto a solid surface or water; from being within a high-speed crashing object, such as in high-speed aircraft crashes; or during incidents involving high pressure differentials, where the body may be forced through a small crevice, as in the Byford Dolphin diving bell ...
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, 35-year-old Edwin Arthur Coward, 38-year-old Roy P. Lucas and 29-year-old Bjørn Giæver Bergersen, and 32-year-old dive tender William Crammond, were also killed. Crammond opened the clamp ...
A fact from Byford Dolphin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2005. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that a freak decompression accident on board the oil rig Byford Dolphin in 1983 literally caused a man to explode? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/May ...
The Byford Dolphin incident is an example. [34] Compression arthralgia is pain in the joints caused by exposure to high ambient pressure at a relatively high rate of compression. It has been recorded as deep aching pain in the knees, shoulders, fingers, back, hips, neck and ribs.