Sadly, it took decades for the Norwegian government, which was operating the Byford Dolphin in 1983, to take responsibility for the accident and provide restitution to the families of the five men killed.It wasn't until 2009that the Norwegian government paid undisclosed sums of money to the fam...
But the greatest danger in saturation diving is the high-pressure environment itself, as a group of four British and Norwegian divers discovered in 1983 in a gruesome event known as the Byford Dolphin accident. Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible offshore oil rig built by Aker Engineering of ...