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In 1983, a tragic accident on the Byford Dolphin oil rig resulted in explosive decompression, immediately killing 4 saturation divers and critically injuring another crew member. The speedy decompression occurred when a diving bell prematurely detached from its chamber because of unsealed chamber doorways. The incident revealed extreme flaws in safety protocols and led to vital improvements in business diving operations and security standards worldwide. Saturation divers are skilled deep-sea divers who descend to depths of 500 toes (152 meters) or extra to service equipment on offshore oil rigs and undersea pipelines. But not like most commercial divers, who do a couple of hours of labor underwater and return to the floor, saturation divers will spend up to 28 days on a single job, dwelling in a cramped excessive-stress chamber where they eat and sleep between shifts. Pay is nice for saturation divers - between $30,000 and $45,000 a month - but it is intense work in an otherworldly and claustrophobic environment.
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