THE BYFORD DOLPHIN INCIDENT: ONE TENTH OF A SECOND

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Episode 103 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on the Byford Dolphin diving accident of November 5th, 1983 — the moment a dive tender released an external clamp before the inner door was sealed, dropping the pressure inside a North Sea oil rig's saturation diving system from nine atmospheres to one in a fraction of a second and killing four men instantly.Five men went to work that night. One came home.#HistoryMystery #ByfordDolphin #NorthSea #IndustrialDisaster #HistoryPodcast

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