Saturation diving
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Saturation diving is an ambient pressure diving technique which allows a diver to remain at working depth for extended periods during which the body tissues become saturated with metabolically inert g
Saturation diver working on the USS Monitor wreck at 70 m (230 ft) depth
Saturation diver conducting deep-sea salvage operations
Iremis da Vinci at the Albert Dock Basin, Port of Leith. A multi-purpose diving support vessel, built in the Republic of Korea in 2011, and registered at Majuro, Marshall Islands, it is 115.4m long and has a gross tonnage of 8691t.
Tektite I habitat
Byford Dolphin
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Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Energy. Byford Dolphin was registered in Hamilton, Bermuda, and drilled s
Saturation diving
…Some notable saturation diving incidents include: Byford Dolphin diving bell accident – Explosive decompression of an occupied saturation chamber Drill Master diving accident – Fatal diving bell accident off Norway in 1974…
Byford Dolphin in dry dock at Invergordon, Scotland, in 2008
The decompression chamber as seen from above at the moment the accident occurred. D1–D4 are divers; T1 and T2 are dive tenders. The trunk is the section that joins chamber 1 to the diving bell. Note T1 and T2 are outside the decompression chamber, in an area of normal pressure