Extreme Loss of Pressure Tears You Apart | Last Moments

This incident at sea shows us how uncontrolled decompression can occur, and what it can do to you.

"Uncontrolled decompression is an unplanned drop in the pressure of a sealed system, such as an aircraft cabin or hyperbaric chamber, and typically results from human error, material fatigue, engineering failure, or impact, causing a pressure vessel to vent into its lower-pressure surroundings or fail to pressurize at all."

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[James-xrpb]

'The greatest safety precautions in history are written in blood'

[CivilEngineerWroxton]

I remember when this happened. I was in grade 11 at the age of 16. When it was first reported in the news, no details were given. It took some time before they told that it was massive depressurization that killed them. Since the average person knew next to nothing about diving bells, we just pictured what happens on a plane during cabin depressurization, so our imagination pictured something vient, but nothing like the reality of it. Not until my senior year in 1985 did my friends and me find out exactly what happened to these men. I remember how much it disturbed me because of how young and innocent I was. Now I'm 53 and have watched four people die in person in auto accidents, falls from great heights, and being crushed on a construction site. I am a Civil Engineer and so I'm routinely around huge structures being built. Bridges, dams, channel ways, water treatment plants, highway tunnels, etc., etc. Seeing all of what I've seen in my 35 years of adult life has maee me have a VERY healthy respect for just how fragile our bodies are in comparison to things we design and build. I've never designed anything that failed and killed people. I've never designed anything that failed, period. I hope and pray it stays that way.

Those of you watching these videos at a very young age are learning things in an effective way because there's no better motivator to do things safely and to design things in a VERY careful and tested manner than seeing just what forces can do to our bodies in just a few seconds. Gruesomeness observed equals careful procedure and discipline in operations.

[AlextheKaijuFan]

As soon I saw this video get recommended, I knew the Byford Dolphin Rig would appear. The whole concept and process of decompression is honestly horrifying in my opinion.

[xenomorph]

Saw the picture of what could loosely be called "the body", and it was so greusomly obliterated that it surpassed discomfort, disgust, and horror and came all the way back around to "no reaction" because it literally doesn't even LOOK like gore anymore it is so utterly destroyed.

[NoName]

I feel bad for those guys, life left them in an instant

I feel worse for the clean up crew, they continue to live with that

[HeatherSpoonheim]

I nearly had a forklift operator take my legs about 25 years ago. What struck me most was how he knew he was in the wrong but tried to blame me.

[slipuponthetube]

It’s important to note that it’s NOT the crew’s fault! Martin Saunders (the survivor) said himself that Crammond wouldn’t had unclamped the bell if he wasn’t certain it was pressurized. And even when it isn’t, the system should’ve locked and not opened. The crew was exhausted after working unethical and cruel hours (18 hours with 4 hours off, then 14 hours with 2 hours off, then 9 hours for the actual incident). It was entirely the company’s fault. They robbed the crew of their lives and Saunders of his sanity. Even after being disabled from the event, the Norwegian government treated it like it never happened and it took the British government 3 years to put Saunders on disability pension for only £200 a month. He then had to raise 2 kids with the oldest being a year old, a couple years later his wife fell very ill, forcing him to raise them alone (I’m not certain if his wife died or not). He went through hell because of that company, and they didn’t even care.

[notlikely]

"What went though their minds in their last seconds?"

Their occipital bone

[swastikbiswas]

You know the animator have been to Physics classes when you see humans represented as circles

[iunboxboxesha]

Nice to know that I’m never going to be a oil rig worker

[narcissistectomy]

“When I’ve got you, I’ve got you.”

-Delta P

[NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

Bro, these people didnt have last "moments."

Their deaths were instantaneous.

[MEMKI]

The term "Obliterated" isnt enought to describe what happend to those poor guys

[mikaxms]

I guess that's why they have such a high salary.

[generaladvance]

Nothing went through their minds thankfully. Explosive decompression is an insta kill.

[johneynon]

My father was a master deep sea diver who witnessed a fellow diver loose air pressure in his dive suit. His entire body ended up in his mark-5 diving helmit. Needles to say, he discouraged his sons from diving.

[LittleBraveWarriorIsBest]

Fucking hell man, stuff like pressure is why I totally understand that people in the past might have believed in magic and stuff. It's such a weird thing

[grizzy]

"Haha Final Destination kinda freaks me out, glad shit like that doesn't happen in real life"
*watches this*
"Oh fuck off!'

[DeathfistXD]

Imagine what the injured Saunders has seen that day if he wasn't killed by the pressure he must've questioned his sanity from the trauma

[wicklash]

As soon as I heard it was the 80’s I instantly understood more about this accident than I ever had.