The Most Gruesome Death Imaginable: The Byford Dolphin Accident

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  • čas přidán 21. 03. 2021
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  • @Comrade_Jason
    @Comrade_Jason Před 3 lety +19956

    Imagine my disappointment when this story turned out NOT to be about murderous dolphins.

    • @hughjaanus6680
      @hughjaanus6680 Před 3 lety +1180

      That defeats the porpoise of the video.

    • @hughjaanus6680
      @hughjaanus6680 Před 3 lety +828

      @@CARILYNF You're being shelfish.

    • @MisplacedTexan
      @MisplacedTexan Před 3 lety +731

      @@hughjaanus6680 - No need to get crabby about it! 🦀

    • @doylela7891
      @doylela7891 Před 3 lety +702

      this reply section is getting a bit fishy

    • @hughjaanus6680
      @hughjaanus6680 Před 3 lety +447

      @@MisplacedTexan I'm herring you.

  • @suteebaid9776
    @suteebaid9776 Před 3 lety +13189

    No amount of money could have ever convinced me to take this horrible fucking job, but I respect the people who took it.

    • @gopherlee9427
      @gopherlee9427 Před 3 lety +180

      Took the words right out of my mouth.

    • @vaclav222
      @vaclav222 Před 3 lety +359

      meanwhile pewdipie play games and gain more money

    • @enigmamyth
      @enigmamyth Před 3 lety +541

      @@vaclav222 so does niki minaj twerking booties

    • @ariorosadi8862
      @ariorosadi8862 Před 3 lety +508

      @@vaclav222 you say that like it’s his fault that he makes a lot of money lol

    • @reptilesgamers00
      @reptilesgamers00 Před 3 lety +210

      1200 a day? I would. Remove all the human error from dying eventually things become safer. And if you mess up badly you won't be around to know so whatever.

  • @benbirch2393
    @benbirch2393 Před 2 lety +811

    My uncle was a bomb disposal diver in the royal navy, then after his service went on to saturation diving. I'll never forget as a kid, seeing him before and after his weeks away on a job - he was a giant of a man, huge big strong healthy guy... every time he got back from a job he looked like the life had been sucked out of him- drawn, weak, frail. Can't be good for you at all. He only worked about 4 months of every year as the money was so good but it definitely took its toll on him

    • @Blessed_V0id
      @Blessed_V0id Před rokem +55

      Poor guy. That's a hard life indeed. A robotic one of lethal efficiency and no joy...and that's without the pressure and chemical atmosphere

    • @nazreenali375
      @nazreenali375 Před rokem +8

      Sad situation with your uncle 😢😢

    • @paulsaunders6536
      @paulsaunders6536 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Saturation divers generally breathe Heliox. Nitrogen isn’t used below 50m, TBH there is far less air diving undertaken in the North Sea these days. It’s an extremely well paid job. 28 days in sat will earn a diver around £40k these days, in the North Sea. You’ll need to finance all your training yourself, so by the time you’ve paid for that you’ll be out of pocket to the tune of around £60k without any guarantee you’ll ever see the inside of a sat chamber. Hiring a diving vessel is an expensive business so the contracts tend to be short or lump sum. Work is sporadic and the season short for most divers. 2-3 months is the most work you could reasonably expect in a year and the competition for those jobs is fierce. A lot more work is being undertaken by ROVs that continue to be come more and more technically sophisticated. From a safety perspective saturation diving is extremely well regulated in the North Sea, these days.

    • @apocratos0174
      @apocratos0174 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Soooooo
      The greatest winner was his wife as she collected all the wins and none of the L of his job....smart woman

    • @sarahamira5732
      @sarahamira5732 Před 5 měsíci +8

      ​@@apocratos0174men not try not to villianize women challenge (impossible) (please touch grass)

  • @Buggsiess
    @Buggsiess Před 2 lety +2366

    By far the most “gruesome “ death I’ve seen was that of Jose Melena. He worked at a tuna factory and was cleaning the inside of one of the industrial sized ovens when his coworker mistakenly locked him inside. The oven was loaded with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna and turned on. He was found 2 hours later after being cooked alive with the tuna.

  • @smnoy23
    @smnoy23 Před 3 lety +9042

    Bad job: saturation diver
    Worse job: saturation diver who had to clean up the Byford Dolphin after this happened and got to see what the corpses looked like

    • @TheGrumpyEnglishman
      @TheGrumpyEnglishman Před 3 lety +426

      There are photos on the web. Very gruesome.

    • @jennzifur
      @jennzifur Před 3 lety +425

      @@TheGrumpyEnglishman yep do not recommend. Also a story on this topic on the YT channel Horror Stories has very gruesome photos. Horrible. Thankfully the deaths were instantaneous.

    • @tintin999
      @tintin999 Před 3 lety +328

      @@jennzifur yeah I just looked it up
      rip
      imma go watch some cat videos now

    • @rauhaandawood601
      @rauhaandawood601 Před 3 lety +97

      Apparently there was also cctv footage

    • @briansullivan5908
      @briansullivan5908 Před 3 lety +196

      After hearing the description why would you want to look at the photos?

  • @DavidStruveDesigns
    @DavidStruveDesigns Před 2 lety +10166

    If ever there were a job where it SHOULD be done by robots and only robots, this is the one.

    • @zenithlyncadet8984
      @zenithlyncadet8984 Před 2 lety +161

      Can’t wait for robots to demand human rights

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om Před 2 lety +202

      I operate underwater robots. (ROVs)

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om Před 2 lety +27

      @Dman Clem How so?

    • @fathertimedevourer3599
      @fathertimedevourer3599 Před 2 lety +75

      @@zenithlyncadet8984yrah a robot activist

    • @matttaylor817
      @matttaylor817 Před 2 lety +195

      Wrong, if humans could've reached the BP well, that well would have been closed off in weeks. Humans are much better at dealing with variables. And trust me, commercial diving is full of unpredictable variables

  • @ltkreg
    @ltkreg Před 2 lety +84

    I'm an insurance adjuster who handled a multiple death claim because of an explosion at a Valero oil refinery in I think it was Washington State. As I recall it was 7 people who were killed with 2 of those 7 about a week later in the hospital. The accident was totally preventable because they used a piece of equipment a decade or more past it's intended life. What surprised me was the "don't give a dam" attitude among the oil company people, the government bureaucrats ... about the needless loss of 7 lives? So when Simon says the investigation here was itself a cover-up and it took 25 years for the survivors to collect I believe it.

    • @LTButtstrong
      @LTButtstrong Před měsícem

      Something I've noticed about nearly every one of these horrific accidents is that they were all entirely preventable, but profit would've been effected. Funny how there's never enough in the budget for safety, but plenty for ensuing lawsuits...

  • @AscendancyLF
    @AscendancyLF Před rokem +1566

    For anyone here from the Titan incident please note: The Titan and the Byford Dolphin incidents are actually not the same physical process it's more like the opposite.
    The Byford Dolphin incident was a rapid decompression.
    The Titan imploded or you could say it was a "compression" (not decompression).
    You can view it like this: The pressure inside the decompression chamber in the Byford Dolphin incident did go extremely rapid from 9 to 1 bar. Everything INSIDE the chamber wanted to go OUTSIDE of it. And alot of stuff inside your body wants to EXPAND.
    The pressure inside the titan did go extremely rapid from 1 bar to ~400 bar. Everything OUTSIDE the vessel wanted to go INSIDE. And alot of stuff inside your body gets CRUSHED.
    Both processes are instant deaths, faster than the brain can react, though the titan incident is probably even more brutal.

    • @XmissrenegadeX
      @XmissrenegadeX Před rokem +90

      thank you. I was searching for some explanation on what a sub implosion looks like.

    • @hrthrhs
      @hrthrhs Před rokem +52

      Good comment. Plenty are getting the processes in these 2 incidents confused.

    • @nazreenali375
      @nazreenali375 Před rokem +12

      Thank for the explanation 🙏

    • @Brinta3
      @Brinta3 Před rokem +77

      But in both incidents, gas wants to get out of the body very quickly which has mostly the same effect:
      Titan: Body is compressed (implosion), the air in for example the lungs is pushed out of the torso so forcefully that the torso ruptures in many places to let the air out.
      Byford Dolphin: Pressure inside body is suddenly higher than outside the body, the air in for example the lungs wants to expand so forcefully that the torso ruptures in many places to let the air out.

    • @yannickjg8228
      @yannickjg8228 Před rokem +2

      Gracias

  • @LCTesla
    @LCTesla Před 3 lety +14382

    "most gruesome death imaginable"
    "they died instantly"
    you grossly underestimate our imagination

  • @blackfalkon4189
    @blackfalkon4189 Před 3 lety +5057

    "why did you quit?"
    "I couldnt take the pressure"

    • @beekind6267
      @beekind6267 Před 3 lety +25

      You know what???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Bacony_Cakes
      @Bacony_Cakes Před 3 lety +24

      freddie mercury be like

    • @lisa438321
      @lisa438321 Před 3 lety +22

      Cue the bass...do do do d..d..do do

    • @Bacony_Cakes
      @Bacony_Cakes Před 3 lety +10

      @@lisa438321 l e t m e o u t

    • @imnahtcool
      @imnahtcool Před 3 lety +7

      This small comment thread totally made my day 🤣🤣

  • @allys744
    @allys744 Před rokem +48

    The fact that these men died instantly and without pain doesn’t make this any more of a “relief.” This is still a horrific tragedy and a gruesome (beyond words) way to die.
    What’s even more infuriating is that the men and the sole survivor never got any compensation for their losses. The fact that no one talks about this tragedy is also frustrating.

    • @veritaseru
      @veritaseru Před 6 měsíci +2

      It can be both.
      Horrific, yet relieving to know that event itself was nearly instantaneous and painless.
      It can be both.

    • @raze2012_
      @raze2012_ Před 4 měsíci

      It's some relief but it's still crazy gruesome. Gruesome =/= painful in my eyes. If there's barely anything left of you to recover after you die I'd still call it pretty damn gruesome.

  • @tdurb0
    @tdurb0 Před rokem +10

    Its June 25th 2023 and this video is more relevant than ever.

  • @JamesWilliams-rb7vk
    @JamesWilliams-rb7vk Před 3 lety +5004

    Here’s me thinking who would even want to do that as a job but then the guy said they could earn up to 1,400 dollars a day and now I’m out here practicing my under water swimming technique

    • @ninjahuh
      @ninjahuh Před 3 lety +19

      Funny 😆

    • @StevieB8363
      @StevieB8363 Před 3 lety +165

      "I would do anything for love - but I won't do that..."

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 Před 3 lety +142

      There's a reason it pays so well. I just couldn't do it.

    • @uwlimesub6945
      @uwlimesub6945 Před 3 lety +81

      l went through all the training in commercial dive school (Santa Barbara) but went into the manufacturing end...at the company that designs and builds the helmets for the industry.

    • @mybuttflames
      @mybuttflames Před 3 lety +7

      Not a funny comment

  • @hoptanglishalive4156
    @hoptanglishalive4156 Před 3 lety +1319

    When your body's full of helium, you can't talk with people, but you can have sensational conversations with cetaceans.

  • @syrenet
    @syrenet Před rokem +15

    Sseth making the curious minds to learn stuff just because "oh you dont want to know" and flash 1/3'rd of second single title on screen.

  • @GippyHappy
    @GippyHappy Před rokem +59

    I think this is certainly a _messy_ way to go, but there’s just no way they even knew they were dying; they were just there one second and gone the next. And I think that makes it a relatively nice way to go compared to some other, slower, processes.

  • @SumBrennus
    @SumBrennus Před 3 lety +5875

    The embodiment of the saying: "If anything goes wrong, you won't even know it."

    • @exexpat11
      @exexpat11 Před 3 lety +157

      BLAT! Clean up in cylinder two. The divers just s'ploded!

    • @martyzielinski2469
      @martyzielinski2469 Před 3 lety +10

      @@exexpat11 good......

    • @exexpat11
      @exexpat11 Před 3 lety +81

      @@martyzielinski2469 I would not say good. Awesomely awful or horrific... probably. I think there was another incident where someone cut off the oxygen to the diver's living quarters and they died. (Lots of things happen that do not make the news or is public knowledge.) My dad was in Offshore Drilling so I was around the people that worked on rigs when I was younger.

    • @esoniqplyr1
      @esoniqplyr1 Před 3 lety +32

      More like the 'disembodiment' of the divers, giving meaning to the phrase..."If anything goes wrong, you won't know what hit you!"

    • @martyzielinski2469
      @martyzielinski2469 Před 3 lety +14

      @@exexpat11 -i was complementing “clean up in aisle two”....

  • @joseybryant7577
    @joseybryant7577 Před 3 lety +5241

    "Imagine living in your sealed world. Unable to escape, without certain death." Sounds like the life of Simon's writers in his basement.

    • @EddieLeal
      @EddieLeal Před 3 lety +36

      Sounds like a world caught in a grip of a pandemic. 😉

    • @jacktheuser-ck9qi
      @jacktheuser-ck9qi Před 3 lety +26

      Sounds like my uncles basement

    • @wireworks4252
      @wireworks4252 Před 3 lety +17

      Sounds like "One" by Metallica
      Edit: The song is based on a story called Johnny Got His Gun

    • @laszlokenyo3168
      @laszlokenyo3168 Před 3 lety +3

      @@wireworks4252 that movie can legit give you PTSD

    • @northwestpassage6234
      @northwestpassage6234 Před 3 lety +19

      @@EddieLeal covid is a far cry from certain death for the vast majority of people.

  • @Cartel893
    @Cartel893 Před rokem +29

    > Most gruesome death imaginable
    Titan crew: "hold my xbox controller"🎮

    • @tomwilko7841
      @tomwilko7841 Před rokem +2

      Wow I just snorted...was not expecting that😅

  • @malrod49
    @malrod49 Před rokem +10

    Who’s here after the submarine situation?

  • @schuletrip
    @schuletrip Před 3 lety +2833

    Just think; divers didn’t know this at one point and had to literally experiment to find out what happens to the body.

    • @koen5396
      @koen5396 Před 3 lety +316

      I assume you’re referring to decompression sickness, in the 1800’s before anyone ever reported having it there were scientists hypothesizing about it. technically yea people had to just find out but we didnt go in blind

    • @victorforce2
      @victorforce2 Před 3 lety +150

      Well, when the aqualung was invented French divers set out to determine what was the maximum safe depth to dive while wearing one. One diver literally dove while another guy would measure how deep he went and when the diver suffered from narcosis and drowned at around 120 meters they determined that the maximum depth to dive with compressed air is around 90 meters (today we know nitrogen narcosis actually occurs at a depth around 30 meters).

    • @evilsharkey8954
      @evilsharkey8954 Před 3 lety +53

      There were some animal experiments done with pressurization and decompression but not very many, and decompression has been banned in any animal research for a very long time, for obvious reasons. I don’t recall any animal research done to the extent of explosive decompression.

    • @mamapetillo8675
      @mamapetillo8675 Před 3 lety

      Japanese female divers got that on lock.

    • @onthelvl8291
      @onthelvl8291 Před 3 lety +23

      Alot of unknowns like that were carried out during WWII. Nazi's were already sewing ppl together so the US funded it a bit. I guess they were just as curious. True story. TRust government... Consume....CONFORM. Yea fck that

  • @siriusblack7714
    @siriusblack7714 Před 3 lety +9776

    As a kid I always thought it would be cool to be a deep diver or an astronaut. Then I learned about anatomy and how are bodies are specifically designed for land and ONLY land

    • @makairidah8354
      @makairidah8354 Před 3 lety +334

      Try telling that to Gundam fans

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 Před 3 lety +107

      I'll die doing what I like best then

    • @rayadoingles
      @rayadoingles Před 3 lety +438

      Not quite true we are perfectly adapted to free dive to decent depths. We have something called a marine mammal reflex - when our cheeks come into contact with cold water, our heart rate automatically starts to reduce, allowing us to hold our breath for longer because we're using less oxygen. Pro freedivers have also tapped into this and can use the mechanism to concentrate their blood in their torso and away from their limbs (also much like marine mammals). As well as this, it's believed that the event of your hands and feet shrivelling if you spend time in water, is a mecanism to help us climb more easily on rocks.

    • @Neil070
      @Neil070 Před 3 lety +51

      @@rayadoingles what about the shrivelled goolies suffered by Brits swimming in our cold water?

    • @carsoantonio4736
      @carsoantonio4736 Před 3 lety +209

      Being an astronaut is not that bad and curiously enough is actually safer than saturation diving, since there is only a diference of one atmosphere and it's actually the inside of your suit that is higher on pressure, not the outside, which means that if it breaks you don't explode into pieces, you just lose oxygen
      Also if the vehicle is pierced is not like it implodes like in a submarine, you can patch a hole in a space station with your finger, it's that easy

  • @adamcako5281
    @adamcako5281 Před rokem +8

    "Hey hey people..."

  • @shaiigeste2432
    @shaiigeste2432 Před rokem +12

    Here after the Titan tragedy

  • @whtbobwntsbobget
    @whtbobwntsbobget Před 3 lety +6153

    The only silver lining is; from their perspective death was instantaneous. Those who cleaned it up however ... probably have PTSD for life.

    • @Sunset553
      @Sunset553 Před 3 lety +239

      Traumatic incidents don’t always cause ptsd, thankfully.

    • @Charlie-yv3ib
      @Charlie-yv3ib Před 3 lety +515

      @@Sunset553 they did say probably have ptsd, not definitely does haha

    • @Charlie-yv3ib
      @Charlie-yv3ib Před 3 lety +201

      @@Sunset553 I just hope they have therapy programs for those that do end up suffering ptsd from these incidents, yknow?

    • @Sunset553
      @Sunset553 Před 3 lety +25

      @@Charlie-yv3ib yes, I understand.

    • @spiderdude2099
      @spiderdude2099 Před 3 lety +432

      Even if you were perfectly safe in another chamber...just...imagine witnessing another human literally EXPLODE in front of your eyes...if you don’t get ptsd from that, then count your lucky stars...

  • @beemerwt4185
    @beemerwt4185 Před 3 lety +10223

    Gotta love how governments conduct their own investigations and find themselves "not guilty." Despite having all the money in the world to compensate a family for their loss, they still conclude that "it wasn't our fault."

    • @enermaxstephens1051
      @enermaxstephens1051 Před 3 lety +379

      As always. They're why the founding fathers called them "a necessary evil at best". That's on their best day. Best day they ever had. Still just a necessary evil. Which is why we're taking all their power away. The more they print, the higher bitcoin goes. Until one day, wouldja lookit that, everywhere accepts bitcoin. It's worth too much not to, and too many people are using it. Now the government's power is diminished. Thankfully

    • @MetalsirenIXI
      @MetalsirenIXI Před 3 lety +146

      Reminds me of the NFL "investigations". They hire the investigator themselves then ofc no guilty

    • @BirdieRumia
      @BirdieRumia Před 3 lety +115

      I mean corporations do the exact same thing, so....

    • @enermaxstephens1051
      @enermaxstephens1051 Před 3 lety +94

      @@BirdieRumia That doesn't somehow make anything better or relieve anyone of guilt. They're just as guilty and they too, will be put out of business one day. The high tech 3D printers are gonna kill most corporations one day. Maybe 25 years from now but it will happen. Thankfully

    • @BirdieRumia
      @BirdieRumia Před 3 lety +75

      @@enermaxstephens1051 no I'm just saying it's wierd to single out "governments"as the main ones that don't compensate victims and that often claim corporations are not at fault in investigations, when if corporations had their way they'd never be investigated in the first place at all. it's like blaming the courts not the murderer for the death of a murder victim. like, corruption is a problem but at least governments run investigations that SOMETIMES find the problem. I.e. air travel would be crash-o-rama & cover-up-city if corporations were left to their own devices.

  • @PedroRodrigues-je6xp
    @PedroRodrigues-je6xp Před rokem +13

    Anyone here because of Seth?

  • @sunlightsage2982
    @sunlightsage2982 Před rokem +7

    Sseth was right. I did not want to know this.

  • @OolTube02
    @OolTube02 Před 3 lety +1538

    So basically it was the most gruesome for the witnesses, not the victims, considering the death was instantaneous and painless.

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 Před 3 lety +78

      I have to wonder what exactly it felt like. Maybe time stretched on and that few seconds felt like hours.

    • @Chef_Alpo
      @Chef_Alpo Před 3 lety +177

      @@carlycrays2831 seconds like an hour, no way.
      However, I can tell you from almost choking to death that not breathing for around about 1.5-2 minutes can feel like 5 or 10 minutes when you're panicking.

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 Před 3 lety +30

      @@Chef_Alpo Yeah, that doesn't make me feel better...

    • @MrKeserian
      @MrKeserian Před 3 lety +194

      @Tuperwear their bodies blew apart before their nervous system could register what was going on. There's a measured lag time for signals to go from your body to the brain, and it's likely said nerves were disconnected before those signals ever made it there. It's like the victims of submarine implosions: it happens too fast for the nerves to get the signal up to the brain.

    • @ZC.Andrew
      @ZC.Andrew Před 3 lety +15

      They think it was probably quick.... But perhaps questionable for some of them.

  • @charliecrome207
    @charliecrome207 Před 3 lety +4347

    "most gruesome death imaginable"
    Hisashi ouchi with his 83 day death from extreme radiation poisoning:

    • @doc1683
      @doc1683 Před 3 lety +614

      Ouchi is right, being a fucking dead corpse with a heartbeat and dying 3 times in a 45 minute span.

    • @dikbutkis7843
      @dikbutkis7843 Před 3 lety +92

      No pain medication either

    • @BloodTM
      @BloodTM Před 3 lety +405

      @@dikbutkis7843 wym? he was given enormous amounts of morphine but that didnt do shit for the pain he was having

    • @dikbutkis7843
      @dikbutkis7843 Před 3 lety +212

      @@BloodTM I stand corrected.

    • @stevenjames5874
      @stevenjames5874 Před 3 lety +8

      I was going to say that its a shame

  • @richardconner5880
    @richardconner5880 Před 2 lety +7

    The fact that the design of the pressure chamber was made by a French company is the real smoking gun with regard to its lack of careful engineering.

  • @chaserofmountains7457
    @chaserofmountains7457 Před rokem +16

    Hey Hey people.

  • @blub3816
    @blub3816 Před 3 lety +3127

    *reads title*
    “Yep, 3am is the perfect time to watch this”

  • @chairninja
    @chairninja Před 3 lety +2260

    My dad worked down the legs of oils rigs in the North Sea as a safety engineer. He almost died more than once...it's a hard life offshore, but good wages for someone with only an apprenticeship and no formal qualifications. We had a better childhood for it he was a brave & good dad xx

    • @KashNoK
      @KashNoK Před 3 lety +83

      Damn, this seems just as dangerous as fighting a war. Hope y'all doing alright now.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 Před 3 lety +22

      Yes, he was! I hope he made it through okay, and the rest of the family too.

    • @B00STED.B
      @B00STED.B Před 3 lety +63

      @@KashNoK this is more dangerous then fighting in a war at least what you could get get injured and go home or at least have some amount of safety and control of your situation now picture this your in a tub monitored 24/7 your down time is technically not down time because your stuck in a tube knowing at any moment..........if you or someone else messes up your body will either A be violently ripped to shreds or B you blood fat and skin will be instantly deep fried and theirs nothing you can do about it

    • @NelsonClick
      @NelsonClick Před 3 lety +17

      God Bless your Dad. Good man. Made a positive difference in the world. You are one of them.

    • @grobbler1
      @grobbler1 Před 3 lety +4

      @jilly G Was that inside the concrete gravity legs, typical of most of the Brent Field? A long way to climb to safety if there's an alarm.

  • @ToxicRat_666
    @ToxicRat_666 Před rokem +16

    Who else is here because of OceansGate

    • @worawatli8952
      @worawatli8952 Před rokem

      Me, it remind me of this, sub implosion is somehow better than this, it is much quicker than being sucked through hatch.

    • @AscendancyLF
      @AscendancyLF Před rokem

      @@worawatli8952 While these two incidents differ in it's physical process (Titan was compression/implosion, Byford Dolphin was decompression) both are instant deaths. In both cases the human brain doesn't have the time to even grasp whats happening as it happens in milliseconds.

  • @sheikGR
    @sheikGR Před rokem +5

    Anyone here after the Titan implosion?

  • @kez850
    @kez850 Před 3 lety +2358

    My dad was a saturation diver for the Navy’s experimental dive unit. Thank god I never knew it was this dangerous! Luckily he retired with no issues!

    • @MrKeserian
      @MrKeserian Před 3 lety +137

      If it helps, the USN dive systems had far better safety, mostly involving interlocks and doors and latches that simply couldn't be opened if the pressure wasn't equalized, than this rig had. This wasn't human error: it was a design failure to anticipate an obvious issue that should have resulted in the designing company getting the pants sued off of them.
      Hell, even the two man rule was ignored. In diving, or dive related operations, you always have two people involved. I make all the connections on my gear, and someone else checks them. I assemble my rebreather and someone else checks it. I compute my dive tables and decompression stops, and someone else checks them. Sensing a theme?
      Why there weren't two people assigned to that door mystifies me. It's an obvious major point of failure that results in a total dive team loss. Hell, the capsule shouldn't have even been able to be released until that door was closed, if normal design criteria were followed.
      This was a system that was designed to fail, that eventually did what it was designed to do. Sure, the proximate cause was human error, but we know humans screw up; that's the whole point of the Bible for God's sake. If you design a system that is that easy to screw up, you don't get to sit around and go, "Oh gee, I wonder how they got that wrong!"

    • @rattyratstuff7125
      @rattyratstuff7125 Před 3 lety +24

      i was in training at a colege near la to go into the navy civil divers. basically civies that do non war related navy diver stuff like fixing ship hulls all the way to aiding in emergencies. i stopped the classes with my first face to face with a shark bigger than me. wake up call. "im in his world. i have 2 10 inch knives. im dead if he gets mad"

    • @DonRoyalX
      @DonRoyalX Před 3 lety +9

      @@MrKeserian interesting comment. That’s why I like the construction unions in my home of Sydney, they are very zealous in detecting these errors and slamming the builders who cut corners and use inferior techniques and gear

    • @rhov-anion
      @rhov-anion Před 3 lety +17

      My brother was an SAT welder and the group's medic since he had EMT experience. It paid VERY well, he liked the work, but his wife hated losing him for 2-4 weeks. He quit and is a nurse now.

    • @charmolettafranquestafiestayam
      @charmolettafranquestafiestayam Před 3 lety +17

      It's nuts to think your dad probably spent more time underwater than a lot of people do at say work or home respectively. That's like going to a whole other planet.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 3 lety +7924

    He described those deaths like how Gordon Ramsay describes food

    • @Zachary_Cordova
      @Zachary_Cordova Před 3 lety +81

      He described them like David Attenborough in Our World.

    • @nyx1787
      @nyx1787 Před 3 lety +63

      Bro I see your comments everywhere stg

    • @The-Roofie-Timelapse
      @The-Roofie-Timelapse Před 3 lety +17

      You’re a legend

    • @MoBallin
      @MoBallin Před 3 lety +14

      *Your not getting your likes this Time*

    • @joce2666
      @joce2666 Před 3 lety +14

      ‘I can still hear squidward telling spongebob to FUCK OFF’

  • @Coneman3
    @Coneman3 Před 2 lety +1

    Your voice is clear and easy to follow. Also you tell the story well and very concisely with no waffle. Good job.

  • @VidkunQL
    @VidkunQL Před 3 lety +2653

    You neglect to mention one salient point: when Crammond released the clamps, the circular door of the chamber was half-open. Hellevik wasn't just decompressed, he was blown through the crescent-shaped opening.

    • @jamiewulfyr4607
      @jamiewulfyr4607 Před 3 lety +160

      Smashed through that small crescent gap.

    • @jdtown6585
      @jdtown6585 Před 3 lety +171

      Geezus kreist...

    • @jamiewulfyr4607
      @jamiewulfyr4607 Před 3 lety +251

      There are some photos from after the event and he looks like dogfood and diving suit.Check it out on Google images.

    • @jdtown6585
      @jdtown6585 Před 3 lety +25

      @@jamiewulfyr4607 Gahh dang ! I'll check it out.

    • @birdynerb
      @birdynerb Před 3 lety +32

      Holy shit, that's even worse!
      As if it wasn't already horrifying..

  • @moseszero3281
    @moseszero3281 Před 3 lety +1851

    This is why a lot of things that are called "human error" are really a fault of bad design. There should be no way to unclamp the thing while it is pressurized.

    • @rabidbeaver167
      @rabidbeaver167 Před 3 lety +347

      No shit, typical bean counters and corner cutting peices of shit always at the route cause. Then they blame one poor worker as if its all thier fault.
      Human error is billy tripping and falling off the curb into traffic. Criminal negligence is not bothering to put in failsafes and safties because its guna prevent some POS from getting a nicer car.

    • @warrensteel9954
      @warrensteel9954 Před 3 lety +184

      @@rabidbeaver167 they probably were overworking the divers to the point of exhaustion too.

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Před 3 lety +52

      @@warrensteel9954 That or the Nitrogen Euforia mentioned in the video

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Před 3 lety +15

      @@rabidbeaver167 While it is bad design most of the time, that isn't always the case. Sometimes accidents are caused by human error. Best example is traffic accidents

    • @Henrikko123
      @Henrikko123 Před 3 lety +64

      And bad design is a human error

  • @LukeSlowMo
    @LukeSlowMo Před rokem +12

    Thank you Sseth. I really want to know it :D :D

  • @synapsenfick6841
    @synapsenfick6841 Před rokem +12

    Hey hey, people!

  • @Damocles54
    @Damocles54 Před 3 lety +3114

    Tom Clancy book "without remorse" features an "interrogation" wherein a person was put into a pressure chamber and slowly taken to depth. Then when questioned, if he gave the wrong answer, pressure was lowered rapidly causing pain. It was...gruesome.

    • @brycesolomon9933
      @brycesolomon9933 Před 3 lety +130

      They also did it in a James Bond movie.

    • @JillC2
      @JillC2 Před 3 lety +115

      @@brycesolomon9933 License to Kill

    • @bimbkin2830
      @bimbkin2830 Před 3 lety +39

      love that book not sure im gonna like the movie

    • @Damocles54
      @Damocles54 Před 3 lety +39

      @@bimbkin2830 i agree. I'm going to watch it, but my hopes aren't high. So here's hoping we're pleasantly surprised lol

    • @Damocles54
      @Damocles54 Před 3 lety +9

      @Jeannette Benoit at the very core, yes.

  • @dirkdiggler2430
    @dirkdiggler2430 Před 3 lety +883

    And I start to panic when I get a little ear pressure from driving up a high hill.

    • @brando4422
      @brando4422 Před 3 lety +27

      😂😂 Reminded me of driving up the Rockies with the pressure freaking me out. Made worse the fact no one else seemed to feel it.

    • @naumen6508
      @naumen6508 Před 3 lety +12

      @@brando4422 man, I get ear pressure while getting to the 1st floor of my house.

    • @JennWest-Liberty
      @JennWest-Liberty Před 3 lety +2

      😲😂😂😂

    • @thehonoredone2661
      @thehonoredone2661 Před 3 lety +1

      Weak asses

    • @monkmoto1887
      @monkmoto1887 Před 3 lety +12

      You sissies I once dove into the worlds deepest bodies of water from the worlds tallest cliff and I managed to touch the bottom and make it to the surface without some pansy ass dive bell. Back in my day, we walked up hill five miles to school, and home. When we wanted water, we had to conduct warfare with wolves and other forest demons. And if you don’t know, now you know, you know

  • @mehllis
    @mehllis Před rokem +13

    Anyone here bc of ocean gate? 💀

  • @jamiehughes5573
    @jamiehughes5573 Před rokem +7

    Came here after the june 2023 titanic submersible incident

  • @StefanRye
    @StefanRye Před 3 lety +3465

    Every time Simon signs off with "I'm not gonna ask whether you enjoyed that video," my answer is, "yes. I did enjoy that video."

    • @andreagriffiths3512
      @andreagriffiths3512 Před 3 lety +5

      Mine too

    • @toniaansaldo8140
      @toniaansaldo8140 Před 3 lety +7

      When it comes down to it,we watch these videos for entertainment.

    • @toniaansaldo8140
      @toniaansaldo8140 Před 3 lety +2

      Whenever Simon signs off that way,it was always an interesting video.

    • @MrShanester117
      @MrShanester117 Před 3 lety +4

      Oh my god this was such an interesting comment. Do you really say “yes I did enjoy the video.” Thats so not vapid or banal in any way. Thanks for sharing. I got to go tell all my friends. “Yes I did enjoy the video.” Brilliant.

    • @dennismitchell5414
      @dennismitchell5414 Před 3 lety +2

      I haven't seen one of his videos yet that I didn't enjoy

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 Před 3 lety +1543

    My old high school buddy died while working on an oil platform near Brunei. He was a specialized deep sea diver. This is one of the most dangerous jobs in the entire world.

    • @dallasbaiton3234
      @dallasbaiton3234 Před 3 lety +130

      And they deserve twice the pay that they receive.

    • @jonathanguthrie9368
      @jonathanguthrie9368 Před 3 lety +167

      I tell my son that high paying jobs are difficult (requiring exceptional skill or training,) dangerous, or unpleasant and that the highest paying jobs often have two of those characteristics or even all three. Diving is what I most often think of when I say "all three."

    • @BatMan-xr8gg
      @BatMan-xr8gg Před 3 lety +69

      @@dallasbaiton3234 I think they deserve 10 times the amount or more. Such a dangerous job. And what about after effects when they are older? You couldn't pay me enough to do it. Cheers mate

    • @THE-BUNKEN-DRUM
      @THE-BUNKEN-DRUM Před 3 lety +51

      @@dallasbaiton3234 : I hear divers complain about many things, pay is never 1 of them.

    • @animefallenangel
      @animefallenangel Před 3 lety +16

      @Brian Garrow, what year? My dad was a telecommunications engineer contracted in Brunei between 1980 and 2000 and would often be out on one of the oil rigs.

  • @izabelivana5751
    @izabelivana5751 Před rokem +10

    whose here because they’re learning about the titanic submarine incident 🥴

  • @DarkSRKI24
    @DarkSRKI24 Před rokem +8

    A warm thanks to the many members of the Merchant's Guild.

  • @mikenapier3598
    @mikenapier3598 Před 3 lety +2789

    Simon has more channels than satellite TV. He is the internet and runs off the power of likes and sponsors in a weird symbiotic partnership.

    • @xXBL4KAl3YSSXx
      @xXBL4KAl3YSSXx Před 3 lety +57

      His website says he’s got 7 channels. There’s no way that’s right, he’s got like 20 at least

    • @JohnDoe-lx3dt
      @JohnDoe-lx3dt Před 3 lety +63

      He’s not real, he’s just a deep fake CZcams use to narrate their own channels

    • @ynptrip
      @ynptrip Před 3 lety +41

      And most of them are poorly researched crap, loaded with errors.

    • @ynptrip
      @ynptrip Před 3 lety +17

      Like this one.

    • @thisisabsolutelystup
      @thisisabsolutelystup Před 3 lety +59

      He's a voice actor who reads scripts. People pull the facts together - sometimes questionably - and he just reads them. Bit of video editing and boom, you've got yourself a video from a smart sounding British chap.

  • @liamyork5195
    @liamyork5195 Před 3 lety +668

    Me not knowing anything about deep sea diving or deep sea drilling: ah yes, of course

    • @NurseSnow2U
      @NurseSnow2U Před 3 lety +15

      Me, in the same boat (no pun intended): mmhmm, yes... indubitably. 🤣

    • @D-money813
      @D-money813 Před 3 lety +8

      Don't forget that chin stroke

    • @themadlad8483
      @themadlad8483 Před 3 lety +6

      That profile pic hahahaha

    • @59spadesofalife52
      @59spadesofalife52 Před 3 lety +4

      @@themadlad8483 LMAO it goes perfectly with the comment

    • @natalieportmanfanbundlepla6060
      @natalieportmanfanbundlepla6060 Před 3 lety +1

      I imagine the guy in your profile pic being the one cleaning up this accident just him alone with a mop slowly mopping up the remains

  • @RatPfink66
    @RatPfink66 Před rokem +6

    Diver Hellevik, who was in the trunk between the capsule and the decompression chamber when the clamp let go, was forced thru the partially open hatch and, as one writer put it, "reduced to pot roast."
    The name for the phenomenon that took the lives of the 5 men - which Simon doesn't use - is _explosive decompression._

  • @1brotherlove829
    @1brotherlove829 Před 2 lety +95

    My friend became a under water welder after college, he did great for a few years until something went horribly wrong and he was killed. Never found out what actually happened to him but they said that kind of work was extremely dangerous.

    • @danielbroomhall8882
      @danielbroomhall8882 Před rokem +8

      it is already dangerous to dive as a recreational diver, imagine working in these conditions every day.

    • @narcisoanasui246
      @narcisoanasui246 Před rokem +12

      Sorry for your loss ❤️

  • @exxor9108
    @exxor9108 Před 3 lety +1890

    Damn... imagine that. Decompressing so fast that your body literally just explodes in a spray of bloody red visceral chunks... That's some Final Destination horror right there.

    • @isaacyang265
      @isaacyang265 Před 3 lety +45

      Atleast they felt no pain.

    • @anotherbigfootwithinternet2147
      @anotherbigfootwithinternet2147 Před 2 lety +42

      @@isaacyang265 probably for a microsecond

    • @RealWolfmanDan
      @RealWolfmanDan Před 2 lety +20

      Where do your thoughts go in the instant

    • @exxor9108
      @exxor9108 Před 2 lety +108

      @@RealWolfmanDan Up on the ceiling, down on the floor. Across the wall...

    • @DeepEye1994
      @DeepEye1994 Před 2 lety +6

      More like the decompression deaths in the movie "Outland", people just pop into bloody balloons when exposed to space in that film lol

  • @TheoddLedgend
    @TheoddLedgend Před 3 lety +2849

    Dang, basically they were inflated like a balloon until they burst from the tension all in the span of less than a second. I feel real sorry for the guy who had to clean that up.

    • @st3am267
      @st3am267 Před 3 lety +322

      Thats pretty gruesome. But atleast they were able to die a quick painless death. God bless those brave people

    • @phunnymannfromphunnyland
      @phunnymannfromphunnyland Před 3 lety +253

      They didn't inflate. Their blood, iron etc just decided to adios and they died, and the guy that got ripped apart yeah, 2 finger wide gap

    • @christinadawson6482
      @christinadawson6482 Před 3 lety +139

      I read that one of them was sucked through a tiny hole

    • @phunnymannfromphunnyland
      @phunnymannfromphunnyland Před 3 lety +41

      @@christinadawson6482 correct

    • @Diogenes_von_Sinope
      @Diogenes_von_Sinope Před 3 lety +161

      The hole was not that tiny. It was more ofa crescent moon shaped opening. There are images, but beware. Its ugly.

  • @fredread9216
    @fredread9216 Před 3 lety +340

    I have been an avid Scuba diver and instructor most of my adult life. I certified my grandson at age 16. He was very much a natural. He attended the “collage of oceaneering” and became a commercial diver about 15 yrs ago now. A very successful career for him. He won’t touch Sat diving. As a family man with two kids it’s not worth it.

    • @ryano136
      @ryano136 Před 3 lety +13

      Honestly sat diving is safer than scuba, I have been a commercial diver for 28 years 15 of those as a sat diver

    • @tylerharvey5088
      @tylerharvey5088 Před 3 lety +2

      Take a My 17b over any scuba rig

    • @ryano136
      @ryano136 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tylerharvey5088 Too right bud

    • @georgecurious2248
      @georgecurious2248 Před 3 lety +57

      Became a scuba diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became an advanced diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a Master diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a diving instructor and I thought I knew about diving. Became a commercial diver and I thought about diving. Did surface mixed gas diving and I thought I knew about diving. Became a saturation diver and I thought I knew about diving. Became a saturation supervisor and I thought I knew about diving. It's when I worked with hyperbaric doctors that I really started to learn about the many facets of hyperbaric science. Still learning and realizing that it can be safe but it's usually human error that get's people in trouble.

    • @tylerharvey5088
      @tylerharvey5088 Před 3 lety +3

      @@georgecurious2248 where are you working at buddy I want to get my dmt and work in a chamber but it's hard finding a hospital with a chamber where I'm at

  • @bearbear4030
    @bearbear4030 Před 3 lety +2302

    “The most Gruesome Death Imaginable”
    Roman executioners: 🧐

    • @ao1778
      @ao1778 Před 3 lety +154

      I mean, if the most gruesome deaths you can imagine is crucifixion, being fed to lions, beheading, or hanging... You haven't been hanging around true horror CZcams channels for long.

    • @LordSaboLP
      @LordSaboLP Před 3 lety +74

      @@ao1778 neither have you, if you want to see what painful is I’d recommend searching rekt on /b... for example the sinaloa cartel pumps you full with drugs so you don’t die immediately and start skinning your face alive.. quite a way to go wouldn’t you say?

    • @PixXx31
      @PixXx31 Před 3 lety +48

      He also said they died immediately and painlessly. So probably not gruesome for the victims. Not suitable for torture.

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 Před 3 lety +48

      Have you heard of the animal bag? They’d sew up criminals in a sack with a monkey, snake, rooster, and dog and throw them into a river

    • @Jimmyxsx
      @Jimmyxsx Před 3 lety +19

      Mexican cartels😒 amateurs

  • @neondystopian
    @neondystopian Před rokem +15

    Simon gonna be like, "who TF is Seth?"

  • @soft_butter4629
    @soft_butter4629 Před rokem +4

    Who else was recommended this by CZcams after the missing sub?

  • @nickthompson2023
    @nickthompson2023 Před 3 lety +339

    A childhood buddy of mine did this work for a while for an offshore oil company. He only did it for a few years but made well north of $300k per year during those years. He said he lost close to 15 years off his life expectancy due to him working in this profession. He’s still slightly mentally affected by it, similar to soldiers returning with PTSD.

    • @benni5541
      @benni5541 Před 3 lety +63

      @Fuzzy Butkus pretty sure they tell the divers before they sign the contract they will experience health damage. Otherwise they can get sued like the guys in the video could.

    • @TheFreshSpam
      @TheFreshSpam Před 3 lety +7

      @Fuzzy Butkus saturation divers on average die in their 70,'s

    • @nickthompson2023
      @nickthompson2023 Před 3 lety +50

      @Fuzzy Butkus it’s called medical science? The affects of deep diving for prolonged periods are well documented and these guys literally live for months at a time in what is essentially a Winnebago built to stay underwater.

    • @BillReals
      @BillReals Před 3 lety +48

      @Fuzzy Butkus Saturation diving involves living in high-pressure environments for weeks on end to prevent getting Decompression sickness and allowing them to work their shifts at depth. Your body isn't designed for that so things like bone necrosis, where there is death of a portion of the bone that is thought to be caused by blockage of the blood vessels by a bubble of nitrogen/helium coming out of solution, in divers is common. You don't find a lot of old commercial divers and now most of the work is done by ROVs

    • @jeg5438
      @jeg5438 Před 3 lety +42

      $300k/ year. How much do you suppose the CEO and CFO make in a year sitting in their plush leather office chairs?

  • @IacovosFlorides
    @IacovosFlorides Před 3 lety +465

    "All divers died instantly and painlessly" This is now on the top of my list of preferred ways to go when my time comes.

    • @anovemberstar
      @anovemberstar Před 3 lety +34

      i dunno, it would probably not be so good for you family / loved ones. not when there are other ways to die instantly without knowing - like dying in your sleep lol

    • @peterbuckley3877
      @peterbuckley3877 Před 3 lety +30

      If you look at the autopsy photos you might change your mind, he literally exploded and half of him was turned inside out.

    • @carlycrays2831
      @carlycrays2831 Před 3 lety +3

      @Xi Jinping Jesus Christ...

    • @obscure_alternatives
      @obscure_alternatives Před 3 lety

      @@peterbuckley3877 just saw them...gross.

    • @stargazer2042
      @stargazer2042 Před 3 lety +12

      They are just claiming that to avoid a bigger lawsuit. I'm sure they had a second of extreme pain.

  • @princetrevez
    @princetrevez Před rokem +7

    Anyone here in June 2023? 👀

  • @l-Jeremy
    @l-Jeremy Před rokem +52

    You will have to cover this accident and how it compares to the just confirmed OceanGate Submersible imploding at the depths of Titanic (3600m or 12,795 ft (approx. 2.5 miles down). For comparison, the Byford Dolphin Accident happened at 9 atmospheres, the Titan submersible was 386 atmospheres of pressure... Very scary to think how fast something like this would happen...

    • @shaiigeste2432
      @shaiigeste2432 Před rokem +1

      Definitely

    • @deadskinconsumption
      @deadskinconsumption Před rokem +23

      So I’m def not the only one searching these kinds of videos right now

    • @l-Jeremy
      @l-Jeremy Před rokem +2

      @@deadskinconsumption def not alone mate

    • @jackvalentine7403
      @jackvalentine7403 Před rokem

      @@deadskinconsumption OF link?

    • @AscendancyLF
      @AscendancyLF Před rokem +10

      You can't compare these two incidents like that. The Byford Dolphin incident was a rapid decompression. The Titan imploded or you could say it was a "compression" (not decompression).
      You can view it like this: The pressure inside the decompression chamber in the Byford Dolphin incident did go extremely rapid from 9 to 1 bar. The pressure inside the titan did go extremely rapid from 1 bar to 400 bar.
      Both processes are instant deaths, faster than the brain can react, though the titan incident is probably even more brutal.

  • @thefunnyguyfromtheburgerki3334

    Honestly there's probably worse. I feel like this is in the same ball park as bomb defusal. It's a painless death if you screw up and the aftermath/cleanup just isn't your problem. This is probably a "worst death to witness" more than anything

    • @kingkitty026
      @kingkitty026 Před 3 lety +262

      Painless doesn't equal not gruesome

    • @wooskerboosker
      @wooskerboosker Před 3 lety +63

      Bomb defusing is not nearly as gruesome or worse as this.

    • @gingrich1000
      @gingrich1000 Před 3 lety +156

      I like how your idea of a really bad death includes having to clean up after yourself lol

    • @bazzathebaptist5564
      @bazzathebaptist5564 Před 3 lety +42

      Kind of a case of 'gruesome' vs 'worst' I suppose. The most visceral deaths I've seen were due to gunshot or car crash, far quicker than hypo/hyper thermia. Interesting metric though.

    • @Joby1W1992
      @Joby1W1992 Před 3 lety +82

      Imagine massive doses of radiation.
      At first, your skin begins to itch and burn like a sunburn. Depending on how bad, this can last as little as a few hours or as much as a couple of days.
      Then you bleed.
      And bleed and bleed and bleed.
      It pours out of every orifice in your body and opens new ones cause that bad sunburn you had? Not so much like a sunburn now.
      Your flesh literally starts falling off of your bones in chunks. Your organs begin liquifying and you actually vomit out your digestive system piece at a time until your body can no longer physically vomit, then you just choke on the viscera.
      This can last *FOR ALMOST 2 WEEKS*
      At the end, your "body" is little more than a cracked, brittle skeleton with rotting bits of meat dripping off of it. Your eyes, tongue, genitals, hair, fingernails, internal organs and skin are all gone.
      It is like being swallowed by fire for 2 weeks.
      This happened to a guy in Japan who saved most of the island's population decades ago during what could've been the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever.
      But he sacrificed himself and, while I don't have the exact details of what he did to stop a meltdown, he was exposed to incalculable amounts of radiation.
      By the end, he was begging the doctors to let him die.

  • @homecactus
    @homecactus Před 3 lety +1419

    Here's a gruesome death. This happened in my local area a few years ago. A sugar cane harvester was being used to harvest mass amounts of sugar cane meanwhile many groups of labor workers would pick up the remains that the harvester wasn't able to harvest. The day was very hot and humid and one of the workers was assumed to be sleeping among the sugar cane in the shade (pretty stupid I guess). And the driver of the harvester didn't see him and harvested his body into grounds in less than 2 seconds. The inside of the harvester was completely painted in pure blood. The most identifiable remains were a few 1 cubic inch pieces of flesh. The person was identified only by subtracting all of the other workers there that day and finding who was missing. Yeah I didn't sleep well when I heard about that

    • @robpelick7460
      @robpelick7460 Před 3 lety +283

      Or this: a landscaper was pruning trees in my town and using a wood chipper on the branches. You can probably guess what happened. One of his workers somehow got tangled up in a branch and was pulled into the machine before anyone knew what had happened. The worker was the landscaper's son. They actually posted a photo in the local paper of this poor man sitting on the curb after the incident with a bewildered look on his face. I still cannot fathom why someone sent a photographer to the scene or why they felt the need to publish that picture

    • @tresjolieme81
      @tresjolieme81 Před 3 lety +69

      A young guy under 18 put his foot in the wood chipper and his jean got caught he got chipped away from the legs up... look it up North Carolina

    • @OrkotheDorko
      @OrkotheDorko Před 3 lety +155

      If we’re sharing stories of gruesome deaths, I have one to add that happened in my city.
      A few years ago, a man was attempting to quickly cross the city’s light rail train tracks, but tripped and fell onto the tracks right in front of the train, right as it was pulling out of the station. It was nighttime, and the train operator didn’t see the man. He was dragged underneath the train for three blocks until it pulled into the next station. Not sure when exactly he died, but folks in the apartment building located halfway between the two stops could hear screaming as the train went by. So, it unfortunately wasn’t instantaneous.

    • @Bambim8
      @Bambim8 Před 3 lety +256

      I'll too share a gruesome death. So it happened when I was running home back from a forest after my days work. While running back I saw these people in the distance and they were chatting about something, had weapons in their arms and were waving a flag for some reason. I just assumed they were random hunters and so I carried on and went right back to my wood cabin. The next morning I wake up and I hear someone walking around my cabin. I think nothing of it, but then when I come outside, there's sudently no one there, so I turn around to get back inside when I see a creeper who's about to blow up inside my cabin and I hit him with my diamond sword that has knockback II on it and the creeper just flies away further into my cabin next to my sitting cat named Tom. Both of them died, taking away a half of my cabin with them. I cried for about a day after the incident.

    • @homecactus
      @homecactus Před 3 lety +177

      @@Bambim8 they had us in the first half not gonna lie

  • @anniekinsmishkamouse7575

    Ironic this pops on my feed right after they found the Titan submersible remains. I feel for the families. But I am stunned anyone thought it was actually safe at those depths.

  • @mcleodmichael1
    @mcleodmichael1 Před 2 lety +2

    This reminds me that I have to get going on my will, etc. You don't want the people you leave behind to be left with a mess.

  • @FOH3663
    @FOH3663 Před 3 lety +240

    As a kid in the late 60's early 70's, I distinctly remember learning of the highest paid profession availed to those working with their hands; $100 an hour for deep water welding.
    "Piece of cake"...
    50yrs later I discover this on YT

    • @LB1973
      @LB1973 Před 2 lety +34

      you would cry at what specialist underwater welders earn now.

    • @Krazzy2188
      @Krazzy2188 Před 2 lety +13

      I was training for underwater welding. My uncle owned a business, he passed away on the job due to a failure in one of his lines. I stopped immediately and changed careers.

  • @gabrielarkangelo
    @gabrielarkangelo Před 3 lety +278

    "In space, no one can hear you scream" well, there are worst fates out there.

    • @edwardhumphreys8660
      @edwardhumphreys8660 Před 3 lety +7

      Oh this could definitely happen to you in space too

    • @DJB3lfry
      @DJB3lfry Před 3 lety +11

      @@edwardhumphreys8660 Actually, it would be very unlikely for this to happen in space, unless the inside of the vessel was overpressurized for some reason.
      The reason this happened is because of the instant change from 9 atmospheres of pressure to just 1. Space, being a vacuum, has an atmosphere of 0, and the inside of a spaceship is generally going to be 1 atmosphere, so the pressure change between 1 and 0 is nowhere near strong enough to cause the same result (this is also why a spaceship cannot double as a submarine, because it doesn't have the proper reinforcements installed to withstand such an insane amount of pressure.
      For reference, soda cans are often pressurized to 2-3 atmospheres above the ambient pressure, so cracking open a soda can is more exciting than cracking open a spaceship (well, depending on the size of the hole, at least. A big hole on a ship _will_ suck you out, if you're close enough).

    • @bacon_haired_dude7050
      @bacon_haired_dude7050 Před 3 lety +1

      Sorry kars

    • @Pencil0fDoom
      @Pencil0fDoom Před 3 lety

      Cuz in space... you can’t scream.
      So is this philosophy or semantics?

    • @noobgun12
      @noobgun12 Před 2 lety

      @@Pencil0fDoom well you can actually but it just takes for ever to sound wave to move

  • @stevecastro1325
    @stevecastro1325 Před 2 lety +2

    I promise to never publicly complain about my tendinitis again.

  • @ammoalamo6485
    @ammoalamo6485 Před 2 lety +7

    Very good explanation of both the diving technique and the dangers. A novelist once wrote about a fictitious first use of a diving suit in which the man below died quickly, but horribly, because the system lacked a backflow-preventer in the air line. With local bigwigs looking on at the marvelous new technology for underwater salvage, somebody got annoyed at the loud air compressor and turned it off. Almost instantly the air line pressure fell to zero, and the air in the highly-pressurized diving suit blew its entire contents up the single air line like a cannon going off. The crowd was sprayed with a noxious red mixture, which they later discovered was the poor diver, whose eighteen inch wide body including a few of its hard bits had been forced by extreme air pressure upwards through a two inch diameter air hose, at great speed. Now, that account was fiction, so I never learned if such a sudden drop in pressure from multiple atmospheres to one atmosphere could blow a human apart. You have now assured me it could happen.
    Damn, that is terrible. I wonder how much money the corporation saved by leaving off the necessary safety interlocks? I was a safety manager for ten years, and I've seen many cases of such false economy in he world of workplace safety.

  • @MsPuffykinz
    @MsPuffykinz Před 3 lety +1035

    I’m not even at 3 minutes and I’m CLAUSTROPHOBIC FROM THE THOUGHTS ALONE.

    • @anovemberstar
      @anovemberstar Před 3 lety +4

      for me that moment came 30 seconds in ...

    • @railfanpro
      @railfanpro Před 3 lety

      Same

    • @stevefrench8813
      @stevefrench8813 Před 3 lety +1

      26 seconds

    • @yuurichito1439
      @yuurichito1439 Před 3 lety +6

      Imagine fckn exploding because of the pressure 😬😬😰

    • @izzyjones7108
      @izzyjones7108 Před 3 lety +2

      I am terrifed/phobic of deep dark water as it is...no way. I could not go down like that

  • @lilykep
    @lilykep Před 2 lety +319

    Ask a Mortician described a death on her channel that has taken my top spot for most gruesome death imaginable. This poor man fell down a manhole in NYC where some work was being done, someone had taken away the protective covering. The reason it was being worked on was that there was an issue with a leaking steam pipe, so the area where he fell was full of scalding hot steam. This poor man remained alive and aware, slowly cooking to death for HOURS while crews struggled to get him out. He eventually succumbed and perished. An autopsy revealed that he had died of steam burns and scalding on 60 percent of his body. Truly horrifying.

    • @BernStoogin
      @BernStoogin Před rokem +85

      people don't realize steaming alive is so much worse than burning, because your nerve endings aren't singed; you feel every bit of the pain.

    • @Rubiecat
      @Rubiecat Před rokem +1

      HOURS ? couldn't someone just throw a damn rope down there ???

    • @leftistnpc5417
      @leftistnpc5417 Před rokem +46

      Yep and after failing multiple times to remove him, they all just basically had to sit around and listen to the echoed wailings and screams of pain until his untimely demise.

    • @user-lv7ph7hs7l
      @user-lv7ph7hs7l Před rokem +13

      @@BernStoogin Thatbmust be horrible. I once got scalded by 145C high pressure steam. Just a fraction of a second and not even enough to leave a wound but it was insanely painful. The humidity also transfers the heat well after I took my hand out of the steam I still had near boiling water on my hand and wiping doesn't help much you have to hold it under cool water, that's stops the pain instantly if you haven't been burnt too fast. There's industries that work with 600C high pressure steam. If one of those lines bursts next to you that's quick but extremely painful.

    • @chrisr5649
      @chrisr5649 Před rokem +4

      I think Dr. Melinek talks about that case. She worked for the office of the medical examiner in NYC and talks about many of the deaths during 9/11 and the post 9/11 period while she was training.

  • @nolancain8792
    @nolancain8792 Před rokem +8

    If this is what happened to OceanGate, thankfully and hopefully they went quickly and painlessly.

    • @protipskiptoendofvideoandr286
      @protipskiptoendofvideoandr286 Před 11 měsíci +1

      The exact opposite. Byford is the sudden decrease in pressure. Oceangate is the sudden increase in pressure. But basically the same

  • @doctorlolchicken7478
    @doctorlolchicken7478 Před 2 lety +12

    My brother’s friend does this and he makes it sound like no big deal, but when you describe it here it sounds absolutely terrifying. He does drink a lot. But then, he’s hardly the only one.

  • @Animalace3
    @Animalace3 Před 3 lety +289

    I thought "Man, I'd earn tons of money doing this job" but then thought "Those are extremely terrifying conditions to work in, I'd rather not."

    • @wormhole91
      @wormhole91 Před 3 lety +15

      exactly why it pays so well

    • @XiELEd4377
      @XiELEd4377 Před 2 lety +3

      Same goes for jobs relating to radiation

    • @prophetsam
      @prophetsam Před 2 lety

      Shit, if you can get into it - & Physically Handle it, (for, say at least 5yrs,) - & it not take Too Terribly Long to Learn the Specialized Diving Skills, once already knowing SCUBA, I'd *Seriously* Consider It!
      I'm even One Step Ahead, as I know the TWO BIGGEST THINGS, in Diving, that You have to Learn - & I'm willing to Bet Anything it's *Exponentially So,* in Sat. Diving - Which is A: *Constant* "In the Moment" Awareness of Yourself, Your Surroundings, & Your Equipment; & MOST IMPORTANTLY, *Always keep a Level Head,* no Matter What Goes Wrong, (To the Point that It Becomes ANY Dive Instructor’s *Most* Repeated Phrase,) because of Lesson B. (& B. for " *BIGGEST* FUCKING THING TO *ALWAYS* REMEMBER") is: *If You Panic, You Die!*]
      But yeah, @ $1500/day, & even only working 180 Days a Year, - & I'm sure you could pick up Extra Shifts, to make it more than 180days/yr, - in only 5yrs, you've made close to $1.5 Million; (& that's not taking into Account the Consultant, & Instructor, Work you could be Very Well-Paid for, after you stop doing Sat. Diving for a Living!) So with My Investment Knowledge/Vision, after just 5yrs I could Retire!
      Fuck, not like, when you're
      On the Job there's much to Spend $ on, either! Not @ 100Meters Down Below the Waves, LOL!

    • @TheMilwaukeeProtocol
      @TheMilwaukeeProtocol Před 2 lety

      I drew the same conclusion about making and selling meth.

    • @danielbroomhall8882
      @danielbroomhall8882 Před rokem +3

      ​@@wormhole91 it takes years to get the big money. I have a friend who's a sat diver and makes around 300k-400k a year, but it took him around 10 years to land this job.
      You gotta do a course, then work as an air diver for a few years to gain some experience and start making some networking.
      Then do a sat diver course and apply jobs and most likely you will start with a few jobs here and there until they trust you and you become full time.
      It is not an overnight thing like most people think that you do a course and next month you r a sat diver. Plus there are times where there r too many sat divers than jobs (like pandemic, financial crisis, oil in less demand etc) and you r more likely to be jobless during these periods.
      So yeah, it is not so black and white like ppl think it is.

  • @deanisplemoni
    @deanisplemoni Před 3 lety +158

    Me clicking on this video: "Just how bad could death by a dolphin be?"

    • @hadracks
      @hadracks Před 3 lety +20

      Dolphins have some pretty brutal sexual practices so yes, death by dolphin could be pretty bad.

    • @radornic2387
      @radornic2387 Před 3 lety +6

      Death by dolphin is much worse than this, not as gruesome, but a lot more painful

    • @MrKeserian
      @MrKeserian Před 3 lety +3

      I'm a diver. I'm mix gas and rebreather certified, so I could get a sat cert as well. This crap? No thanks. I'll pass.

    • @stairwayunicorn4861
      @stairwayunicorn4861 Před 3 lety +4

      its not the dolphin that will kill you, its the prolapse.

  • @KIT2142LAW
    @KIT2142LAW Před rokem +12

    Hey hey people

  • @ameliaj._
    @ameliaj._ Před rokem +6

    Here because of the Titan submarine 😅

  • @ericvulgate
    @ericvulgate Před 3 lety +309

    my father did this out of rotterdam in the 70's.
    sounded terrifying.

  • @maximpikalev9538
    @maximpikalev9538 Před rokem +1

    fantastic video! loved it. snappy, to the point, just enough background information and post-event conclusion. fantastic work

  • @dichebach
    @dichebach Před 3 lety +2264

    You know as "gruesome" as it is, this actually sounds like a pretty ideal way to go. One second you are sitting in your pod business as usual; next second your entire body has exploded from the vascularity outward. What are we imagining here? 250 milliseconds of trauma before the sum total of damage to the central nervous system has literally turned it into flying pink paste and goo? You'd literally be dead before you felt anything!
    Okay sure, maybe death by lethal injection would be even "less painful." BUT . . . the stress building up to the moment of the injection could be pretty awful and even once the sedative started to kick in there could be quite a bit of anxiety and horror. I'd say just dying instantly without any warning at all is preferable.

    • @rw8990
      @rw8990 Před 2 lety +122

      To a lot of humans it’s not just how you die but when.

    • @brandoncaldwell95
      @brandoncaldwell95 Před 2 lety +42

      If you've ever been in a lot of pain, you'll realize that its really not that bad overall. It's only a quick second before the body adjusts to it and just get use to it. The muscles will cause the other pain youll feel but it stops rather quickly.

    • @rw8990
      @rw8990 Před 2 lety +42

      @@brandoncaldwell95 what does what you wrote have to do with dying?

    • @protodevilin
      @protodevilin Před 2 lety +245

      @@brandoncaldwell95 Try having a large kidney stone. Your body does not "adjust" to that pain. It is constant, relentless agony that only gets worse and worse, without relief. Kidney stones sound benign, but I assure you they can easily exceed the pain threshold that a human body can withstand.

    • @beepbeeplettuce5890
      @beepbeeplettuce5890 Před 2 lety +142

      Lethal injections arent even close to being painless

  • @ScarlettsWebb
    @ScarlettsWebb Před 3 měsíci

    First time seeing you out of the history channel! Love it ! Great writing ! New fan 🎉🎉🎉

  • @wendigowithaninternetconne9594

    You are the FIRST person (or my anatomy classes are working) to explain the bends so that i get it

  • @pixel4712
    @pixel4712 Před 3 lety +365

    "byford dolphin is still operational" why the he- "with BP" god dammit they're at it again

  • @Rathmun
    @Rathmun Před 3 lety +167

    0:40 "One of the most dangerous, and well paid, jobs in the world." These two things are closely related. "You want me to do _what?"_

    • @yeetusdeletus7039
      @yeetusdeletus7039 Před 3 lety +3

      I mean you can get pod 1400$ a day sooo

    • @hadracks
      @hadracks Před 3 lety +14

      Plenty of jobs are well paid and safe and plenty of jobs pay crap and are dangerous. This one makes sense though.

    • @rattyratstuff7125
      @rattyratstuff7125 Před 3 lety +1

      @@yeetusdeletus7039 1400 a day STARTING. around 180k per year due to human body and such{cant do it day after day} and after 3 years youll generally make 200k-240k according to my instructor who did it before becoming an engineering and dive instructor

    • @yeetusdeletus7039
      @yeetusdeletus7039 Před 3 lety

      @@rattyratstuff7125 bet

    • @rattyratstuff7125
      @rattyratstuff7125 Před 3 lety

      @@yeetusdeletus7039 craaaazy good money if you can take it. I couldn't take it sadly.

  • @notintohandles
    @notintohandles Před rokem

    Glad that you made this years ago. It lends it some integrity.

  • @chadkent1241
    @chadkent1241 Před 2 lety

    Great and entertaining. I simply enjoy your narration.

  • @jfoster1
    @jfoster1 Před 3 lety +1572

    I came here expecting a funny dolphin-related death. That was not funny at all

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape Před 3 lety +142

      Well, the dolphins watching it happen might've thought it was funny. Some dolphins are heartless assholes.

    • @charleslindsey6789
      @charleslindsey6789 Před 3 lety +23

      @@RCAvhstape Orcas are in the dolphin family. Aren't they also called killer whales?

    • @KekePalmer.
      @KekePalmer. Před 3 lety +93

      Dolphins rape almost anything smaller than them, they also get high off pufferfish

    • @Raptorworld22
      @Raptorworld22 Před 3 lety +37

      @@charleslindsey6789 Wild orcas have a human kill count of 0, other species of dolphin, namely the bottlenose, are more likely to rape you while you drown than save you if you're in trouble, contrary to what hollywood and seaworld depict.

    • @ramonemiliogomezjorge8557
      @ramonemiliogomezjorge8557 Před 3 lety

      @@RCAvhstape well, killer whales are More dolphin than whale so, yeah

  • @BigTrumpito
    @BigTrumpito Před 3 lety +870

    I read a story about a young man who ran away at the age of 10 he came upon a cabin he wanted to sleep in it but the door was locked. Instead of breaking the window he shimmied down the chimney where they eventually found his body. I can imagine the poor kid screaming for help until he succumbed to his death. He died because he was a good kid at heart and didn't want to damage the cabin and that bothers me as well. R.I.P to that kid. That always comes to my mind when I hear somebody says the worst way to die.

    • @ms.chuisin7727
      @ms.chuisin7727 Před 3 lety +211

      Since you made me regret reading this, I'm gonna leave a similar story here. There's a neighbour I knew who was in an accident. He was riding his motorcycle on a rainy day and fell into a drain and broke his leg. His body was found in the morning when people go out looking for him. Bloody scratch marks were found all over the drain walls, his fingers were bloody and nails broken. Apparently he tried to crawl out by himself but failed when nobody heard him screaming for help. He died because of blood loss.

    • @countercuIture
      @countercuIture Před 3 lety +109

      @@ms.chuisin7727 Poor souls. I hope there is a heaven after death just so people who suffer get their happiness. I'd go to hell just for people like that to have a happy ending.

    • @ListerMotorsports
      @ListerMotorsports Před 3 lety +23

      Mr ballen tells that story, I forget which episode. Places where people went and shouldn't have.. so sad, I think about that story as well.

    • @sansaraee
      @sansaraee Před 3 lety +9

      Joshua Maddux. Poor baby.

    • @brb8407
      @brb8407 Před 3 lety +13

      @@tardwrangler keep trying homie you’ll be so good at edgy humor one day maybe you’ll even get a present

  • @emailjustinbyrd
    @emailjustinbyrd Před rokem +3

    9 atmospheres. Titan was crushed by 400.

  • @nikolasfurletti223
    @nikolasfurletti223 Před 3 lety +1302

    “The pressure in the chamber instantly dropped from 9 atm to 1, instantly” ah yes I wasn’t sure how instantaneous it was thanks for the confirmation

    • @andricode
      @andricode Před 3 lety +64

      *Instantaneously
      *In an instant
      It's denoting exaggeration

    • @BlockOrDeleteMeansIOwnYou
      @BlockOrDeleteMeansIOwnYou Před 3 lety +85

      Pretty instant, but definitely not instantly instant. I'd give it a semi instant instantly instantaneous instant.

    • @keltar4071
      @keltar4071 Před 2 lety +24

      @@BlockOrDeleteMeansIOwnYou in a instant it was semi instant which caused a instantaneous instantaneously instant instantly and it all happened in a instant.

    • @Zman44444
      @Zman44444 Před 2 lety +9

      @@keltar4071 ooo okay, yeah, I’m picking up what you’re putting down.

    • @zulvalor7266
      @zulvalor7266 Před 2 lety +6

      Well it was fast enough to make blood boil internally so that's pretty instant 😋

  • @FlyWithMe_666
    @FlyWithMe_666 Před 3 lety +4120

    Hi!

  • @belindacrammond7553
    @belindacrammond7553 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for this video

  • @BiGSQUiiD
    @BiGSQUiiD Před rokem +5

    Sseth sent me

  • @GeoHvl
    @GeoHvl Před 3 lety +200

    I talked with a retired deep saturation diver that ran a Wound Care Center. He said it took 8 to 10 days to decompress and now he has many problems related to the 5 years he did that job. Total regret.

    • @rdred8693
      @rdred8693 Před 2 lety +17

      Poor guy.
      It's not worth it

    • @hkchan1339
      @hkchan1339 Před 2 lety +14

      They are mostly paying poor country workers to do the job as the income is like a decade of salary for them. Not sure if the healthcare is good

    • @ShellyJelly-upYours
      @ShellyJelly-upYours Před rokem

      How tragic!!

    • @amberfallon2191
      @amberfallon2191 Před rokem

      What problems?

    • @raze2012_
      @raze2012_ Před 4 měsíci

      yeah, honestly the process to decompress and the symptoms from all that nitrogen in you sounded as bad as the accident. Definitely would not take such a job no matter the money. Maybe if I was already terminal and the pay would help my family after I'm gone.

  • @Martin-ys4sr
    @Martin-ys4sr Před 3 lety +729

    "The Byford Dolphin rig is STILL IN OPERATION, currently on contract with BRITISH PETROLEUM"
    Man, nothing bad could happen here!

    • @powdergate
      @powdergate Před 3 lety +4

      Why did you put British Petroleum in all caps?

    • @ryansshane
      @ryansshane Před 3 lety +37

      @@powdergate deep water horizon

    • @selanryn5849
      @selanryn5849 Před 3 lety +67

      @@powdergate Google "BP safety record" and you'll understand.

    • @g3o5d
      @g3o5d Před 3 lety +22

      Stated as if, "My Money is much More Important than human life" doesn't exist amongst the Corporate World. Corporations count on people dying. It's factored into the "Cost of doing business". Depending on the size of the Corporation, let's say the Gas & Oil industry, up to 20 deaths per year is perfectly acceptable.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 2 lety +2

      @@g3o5d corporations is basically like our bodies, I lose a cell, no big deal. except humans are their cells.
      moral of story, don't work for them if you don't want to be disposable.

  • @citieschilling
    @citieschilling Před 4 měsíci

    How do you have more channels for me to find I wasn't even looking for your content this is literal insanity this is like your 6th channel I am subscribed to