Some parts of that article are straight horror.
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Gork@lemm.ee 1 week ago
This unfortunately happened in real life.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
sukhmel@programming.dev 1 week ago
The families of the divers eventually received compensation for the damages from the Norwegian government, 26 years after the incident.
Well, it’s good that some justice was finally achieved, but that is depressing level of covering up (as usual)
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
For more clarification, they were on the high pressure air side. The kind of dives they were doing involved long periods of acclimation to the different pressures involved, so the diving bell was pressurized to 9 atmospheres. Someone fucked up, and the door opened. 9 atmospheres turned into 1 atmosphere very quickly, and the only good thing is that it happened so fast that the deceased wouldn’t have even noticed
adj16@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Just for what it’s worth, it looks like it was actually an equipment malfunction, not someone fucking up, that caused the accident. The company claimed the person fucked it in an attempt to cover their asses, and they were eventually found to be hiding the truth in a court of law.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 week ago
No one fucked up, they finally settled on it being a mechanical failure.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
The company fucked up by not updating their equipment, even though they knew it was outdated and dangerous
“The North Sea Divers Alliance, formed by early North Sea divers and the relatives of those killed, continued to press for further investigation and, in February 2008, obtained a report that indicated the real cause was faulty equipment. Clare Lucas, daughter of Roy Lucas, said: "I would go so far as to say that the Norwegian Government murdered my father because they knew that they were diving with an unsafe decompression chamber."[11] The families of the divers eventually received compensation for the damages from the Norwegian government, 26 years after the incident.[12]”
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They company fucked up, they did not maintain their equipment.