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Saturation diving – Diving mode and decompression technique; Piper Alpha – Oil platform destroyed by explosion and fire in 1988; Pioneer – 2013 film, a fictional story set in the 1970s Norwegian oil industry which features a fatal decompression chamber accident and its cover-up; 2022 Caribbean diving disaster
The "saturation system", "saturation complex" or "saturation spread" typically comprises either an underwater habitat or a surface complex which includesof a living chamber, transfer chamber and submersible decompression chamber, [45] which is commonly referred to in commercial diving and military diving as the diving bell, [46] personnel ...
Last Breath is a 2019 British documentary film directed by Richard da Costa and Alex Parkinson. It relates the story of a serious saturation diving accident in 2012, when diver Chris Lemons had his umbilical cable severed and became trapped around 100 metres (330 ft) under the sea without heat or light, and with only the small amount of breathing gas in his backup tank.
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).
Fatal accident inquiry (Scotland), March 30–31, 1977 The Waage Drill II diving accident occurred in the North Sea off Scotland on 9 September 1975, when two divers died of heatstroke after the chamber they were in was inadvertently pressurised with helium gas.
The DAN fatalities workshop of 2011 found that there is a real problem that divers do not follow the procedures they have been trained in, and dive significantly beyond their training, experience, and fitness levels, and that this was the basic cause of most accidents. In litigation involving diving accidents, the legal panel reported that 85% ...
Byford Dolphin diving bell accident – Explosive decompression of an occupied saturation chamber (1983) Death of Bradley Westell – Fatal diving accident in the North Sea in 1995 [23] Drill Master accident – Fatal diving bell accident off Norway in 1974 [24] [25] Star Canopus accident – Fatal offshore diving bell accident in 1978 [26] [27]
Diving emergencies can also be distinguished by the mode of diving, so a distinction can be made between scuba diving emergencies and freediving emergencies, surface-oriented surface-supplied diving emergencies and saturation diving emergencies, and open circuit and rebreather emergencies, as some emergencies are only possible when diving in a ...