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Byford Dolphin. Byford Dolphin Pte. Ltd. ( Fred. Olsen Energy) 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]
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.
On 4 September 2006, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, and television programmer Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray while filming in the Great Barrier Reef. The stingray's barb pierced his chest, penetrating his thoracic wall and heart, causing massive trauma. [1] [2] He was at Batt Reef, near Port Douglas, Queensland, taking part in the ...
As of April 2014, Smokehouse Pictures, operated by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, were reported to be working on an English-language remake of the film. See also. The drilling rig Byford Dolphin, where a real-life decompression chamber accident in Norway resulted in the death of a number of divers in 1983. References
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 ...
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).
Summary. Description ByfordDolphinAtInvergordon2008.jpg. English: Byford Dolphin oil exploration rig in dry dock at Invergordon (Scotland) on 2008. Italiano: Piattaforma petrolifera esploratrice Byford Dolphin in dock a Invergordon (Scozia) nel 2008. Čeština: Vrtná plošina Byford Dolphin v suchém doku v Invergordon (Skotsko) v roce 2008.
Deon Dreyer. Deon Dreyer (7 August 1974 – 17 December 1994) was a South African recreational scuba diver who died in Bushman's Hole in South Africa. Cave diver David Shaw died more than 10 years later while attempting to retrieve Dreyer's body.