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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This unfortunately happened in real life.

Edit: other way around though. The divers were on the air side (habitable quarters) of the chamber.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For more clarification, they were on the high pressure air side. The kind of dives they were doing involved long periods of acclimation to the different pressures involved, so the diving bell was pressurized to 9 atmospheres. Someone fucked up, and the door opened. 9 atmospheres turned into 1 atmosphere very quickly, and the only good thing is that it happened so fast that the deceased wouldn't have even noticed

If you want to see an episode of a podcast about engineering disasters which is itself, ironically, an engineering disaster, well there's your problem

[-] adj16@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Just for what it’s worth, it looks like it was actually an equipment malfunction, not someone fucking up, that caused the accident. The company claimed the person fucked it in an attempt to cover their asses, and they were eventually found to be hiding the truth in a court of law.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 9 points 3 months ago

Justice should be violent

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago

Some parts of that article are straight horror.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 5 points 3 months ago
[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Same here, I'll stick to this comment thread, thank you very much.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

The families of the divers eventually received compensation for the damages from the Norwegian government, 26 years after the incident.

Well, it's good that some justice was finally achieved, but that is depressing level of covering up (as usual)

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