The Byford Dolphin: The Fastest Death in the Sea

<p>Four saturation divers lived sealed inside a pressurised chamber at the bottom of the North Sea, their bodies saturated with gas at nine times normal pressure. On a cold night in nineteen eighty-three, a clamp was released a few seconds too early — and five men died in an instant, in one of the most extreme accidents ever recorded.</p><p>August Mercer explains the physics, the cover-up that blamed the workers, and the real lesson: why "human error" is almost always a system that let the error be fatal. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#history #truehistory #truestories #truestory</em></p>