Moment of death dissected — In 2021, billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding made a record-setting trip to the deepest part of the Mariana trench — the Challenger Deep. The 4 hour, 11 kilometre (36,000 feet) drop took him nearly three times deeper than the site of the Titanic. More people have orbited or landed on the…

Moment of death dissected — 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 instant —…

How a worker received 20,000 fatal doses of radiation — In a nuclear plant, no worker wants to see a flash of blue light. This ominous sight indicates a nuclear chain reaction, similar to what happens in a nuclear weapon. September 30, 1999, marked the fateful day nuclear power plant worker Hisashi Ouchi received such a death sentence. As he…