Where is the Byford Dolphin located?
Where is the Byford Dolphin located?
North Sea
The current position of BYFORD DOLPHIN is in North Sea with coordinates 58.11460° / 7.04561° as reported on 2019-01-12 14:03 by AIS to our vessel tracker app. The vessel’s current speed is 0.1 Knots and is currently inside the port of LYNGDAL.
What’s decompression sickness?
Decompression sickness, also called generalized barotrauma or the bends, refers to injuries caused by a rapid decrease in the pressure that surrounds you, of either air or water. It occurs most commonly in scuba or deep-sea divers, although it also can occur during high-altitude or unpressurized air travel.
What happened in the Byford Dolphin diving accident?
However, the rig has suffered some serious accidents, most notably an explosive decompression accident in 1983 known as the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident that killed five workers and badly injured one. The compression chamber at the moment the accident occurred. D1–D4 are divers; T1 and T2 are dive tenders.
What is the Byford Dolphin?
The Byford Dolphin is a semi-submersible Norwegian oil exploration rig converted from a diving rig. It floats in the North Sea to find and drill crude oil deposits. Built on the “Aker H-3” design, the rig is operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred.
What type of drilling rig is the bybyford dolphin?
Byford Dolphin is a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred. Olsen Energy subsidiary, and in 2009 contracted by BP for drilling in the United Kingdom section of the North Sea for three years.
What was the accident with the diving bell in Norway?
Diving bell accident On Saturday, 5 November 1983, at 4:00 a.m., while drilling in the Frigg gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, four divers were in a diving chamber system on the rig’s deck that was connected by a trunk (a short passage) to a diving bell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeVwqfFSggA
