Comment on Anon's in trouble

• zeezee@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They also alleged the accident was due to a lack of proper equipment, including clamping mechanisms equipped with interlocking mechanisms (which would be impossible to open while the chamber system was still under pressure), outboard pressure gauges, and a safe communication system, all of which had been held back because of dispensations by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

  Fatigue may also have taken its toll on the crew, who had been working for longer than 12 hours

  Builder of the rig Aker ASA’s Gross Profit was 7.16B

  Norway’s oil and gas tax revenue soars to record $89 bln

  Imagine forcing your workers into more than 12h shifts, running on 30 year old equipment, the government straight up refusing to upgrade said equipment, while making billions in profits - they don’t call it gross profit for no reason…

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• Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck all of this

  Normally when people say this it is at least a bit of an exageration, but not in this case. That is some straight up nightmare fuel.

  Heres a taster for those of you who don’t want to read the whole thing.

  …bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which resulted in fragmentation of his body, followed by expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen…

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know how often a picture is worth a thousand words?

    I feel like those words are worth a thousand pictures. All of them NSFL.

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  • Tidesphere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Am I reading the right article? I read the entire wiki article linked above and, quite honestly, the part you’ve quoted here is the only piece that even approaches being gruesome, and is very medically sanitized. What are people referring to when they say that the descriptions made them want to vomit and all this stuff?

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