Into the Lions Mouth (commercial diving accident book)

[Greenwood_60]

This one is the worst I have heard... and I complain about my technicians!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_..._bell_accident

[OFG-1]

OK if we are telling sea stories, I have a few. I got out of diving school in 1973, and went straight to the gulf. Stayed until '76 when I couldn't get a clean lower back physical. In three years I saw:
1 - Live boating accident, diver dragged to the surface. Spent a table 4 and 2 table 6's in the chamber, I dont know if he ever was able to walk again.
2 - Diver jumped off bow of a crew boat in a DESCO hat, forgot to jock the hat. Broke his neck, we got him to a helicopter, died in the hospital.
3 - Sat diver drowned in the welding habitat, drowned in argon gas. Habitat was not properly vented, BIB mask leaked around his beard. Everyone had to shave after that.
4 - Before the advent of safety toilets, sat diver sits on toilet in DDC, tender opens flush valve outside, diver has 2 feet of colon sucked out through his anus. The guy lived, but had to deco out from 600 feet with 2 feet of colon hanging out.

The worse accident I know of was 2 kids fresh out of the old FIT diving program getting sucked into a 900 horsepower pump at the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant.

[FW]

Another somewhat related accident was Jochen Hasenmayer. He was the top cavediver in Germany in the '60s and 70s. He got bent, and went to a chamber. He asked the chamber operator if he was a doctor, and the operator said "yes". Turns out he wasn't a medical doctor, but a PhD. Jochen ended up paralyzed because the operator used the wrong tables for re-compression.

[JamesK]

Man, after reading all these stories and hearing the book is like them, I can't decide if I want to read it or not. Scary stuff.

OK if we are telling sea stories, I have a few. I got out of diving school in 1973, and went straight to the gulf. Stayed until '76 when I couldn't get a clean lower back physical. In three years I saw:
1 - Live boating accident, diver dragged to the surface. Spent a table 4 and 2 table 6's in the chamber, I dont know if he ever was able to walk again.
2 - Diver jumped off bow of a crew boat in a DESCO hat, forgot to jock the hat. Broke his neck, we got him to a helicopter, died in the hospital.
3 - Sat diver drowned in the welding habitat, drowned in argon gas. Habitat was not properly vented, BIB mask leaked around his beard. Everyone had to shave after that.
4 - Before the advent of safety toilets, sat diver sits on toilet in DDC, tender opens flush valve outside, diver has 2 feet of colon sucked out through his anus. The guy lived, but had to deco out from 600 feet with 2 feet of colon hanging out.

The worse accident I know of was 2 kids fresh out of the old FIT diving program getting sucked into a 900 horsepower pump at the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant.

Number 4 made me cringe. BAD!!!!