Dismembered in 0.1 Seconds — Byford Dolphin Accident Explained

Moment of death dissected

Diver Truls Hellevik in May 1983, months before his extremely grisly death

In the wake of the 2023 Titan implosion, another disaster of a similar flavour has returned to the fore: the Byford Dolphin accident in 1983.

Regarded as an astonishingly brutal industrial incident, the lives of four saturation divers working on a Norwegian oil rig perished in a horrifying…