Short Stuff: Byford Dolphin Incident

This episode explores one of the most catastrophic accidents in industrial diving history: the 1983 Biford Dolphin disaster in the North Sea. Josh and Chuck explain how saturation diving works—a system that allows divers to stay pressurized for weeks to avoid constant decompression—before diving into the tragic incident where a dive tender's mistake caused an explosive decompression that killed five men in a fraction of a second. It's a sobering and deeply graphic look at what happens when extreme pressure systems fail and how safety regulations were fundamentally changed because of this tragedy.