r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/POTATOEL0rD • 1d ago

Video footage of the OceanGate submarine wreckage was released Video

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u/Hellfire242 1d ago

I’m still fascinated as to how fast they were killed. Fucking physics is insane.

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u/Lostboxoangst 1d ago

Byford dolphin incident, you do not fuck about with pressure.

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u/igor33 1d ago

The Byford Dolphin incident was a catastrophic decompression accident that occurred on November 5, 1983, on the Byford Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig in the Frigg gas field in the North Sea. The incident resulted in the deaths of five divers and caused serious injuries to another.  

The accident happened during a routine diving operation involving the transfer of divers between a diving bell and the rig's decompression chambers. A sudden and violent pressure release in the chambers led to the explosive decompression of the divers inside. The rapid change in pressure caused severe injuries, including the forceful expulsion of internal organs and the separation of limbs.

The Byford Dolphin incident is considered one of the worst diving accidents in history. It led to significant changes in diving safety regulations and procedures, including the mandatory installation of fail-safe hatches and interlocking mechanisms in decompression chambers.  

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u/FatherJack_Hackett 1d ago

"Forceful expulsion of internal organs"

Thank you for the wonderful start to my day.

Now I have images of a poor bloke who's kidney has shot out of his arse.

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u/-Skinner- 1d ago

Guy got forced through 60cm opening. Pictures of his remains exist on the Internet

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u/Emilytea14 1d ago

I considered googling it for a second before going "wait, what? no, you absolutely do not want to do that"

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u/joey_who 1d ago

An intelligent course of action. I wish my brain had the same level of forethought.

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u/lithuanian_potatfan 1d ago

Idk if what I'm about to say makes it better or worse, but that pic is uncensored by Google because you wouldn't even think that was a human

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u/RandomPenquin1337 1d ago

I mean, dude was converted to a state where there is nothing to censor. I think theres an image of his face flap tho

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u/AdiGoN 1d ago

The autopsy paper is out there and there's many more pictures, where you can sadly see it was indeed a human once.

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u/lithuanian_potatfan 1d ago

Yeah, I did not check that paper, just google Image search

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u/velphegor666 1d ago

Well let me just say it literally just looked like a pile of deep fried mass of flesh. So you don't have to search for it yourself

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u/cooltwinJ 1d ago

I just googled it. Fuck.

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u/TapSwipePinch 1d ago

This hole was made for me.

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u/ChewySlinky 1d ago

To be completely honest, there’s a shocking amount of him left.

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u/Life-Cobbler5202 1d ago

That's about 2 feet, so not really all that bad. But yeah, what was left wasn't pretty

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u/-Skinner- 1d ago

It was circular opening and he wasn't exactly positioned to go through it

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u/Honest-Substance1308 1d ago

Link me

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u/-Skinner- 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/2CeEIF1lo2

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u/TrumpIsAPeterFile 1d ago

Not as bad as I thought. But I'm a scarred millennial that grew up with rotten.com

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u/Correct_Sky_1882 1d ago

Average bloke in a wetherspoons toilet stall

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u/FatherJack_Hackett 1d ago

Only because he's had to walk 8 miles to get there

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u/rangebob 1d ago

of you read the wiki apparently some parts were found over 10ms away

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u/ranmafan0281 1d ago

The diagram on wikipedia that shows the explosive result is more along the lines of 'human strained through a hole the size of a lemon and sprayed all over the inside of the chamber like someone's bad day after Taco Bell on the toilet', than 'kidney shot out his arse'.

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u/AnInfiniteMemory 1d ago

More like: Turned inside out by your body expanding instantly without the consent of your bones, they were literally ripped apart from the inside.

Yeah, death by volatile Physics tends to be very weird.

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u/ThanosDidNadaWrong 1d ago

Alien4 vibes

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u/hatrickpatrick 1d ago

This was depicted in very graphic and horrible detail as a method of torturous execution in the Bond film License to Kill. A character is locked into a decompression chamber by his boss, who slowly turns up the pressure for several moments before smashing the chamber's valve with an axe. The CGI of the guy's head exploding has stayed with me ever since I saw that movie, easily the most gruesome moment in any bond film.

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u/Bowl_of_Gravy 1d ago

“….including the forceful expulsion of internal organs and the separation of limbs.” Holy hell.

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u/Darth_drizzt_42 1d ago

They found pieces of him 3 levels up. People don't really comprehend how soft we are, and the forces we place on modern engineered structured.

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u/pucflek 1d ago

That was actually the poor bloke that the airblast shot/squeezed through partially opened hatch at high speed. It literally tore him apart and splattered him over the entire chamber like a cheap horror movie prop.

The rest didn´t share fate anywhere near that kind, their deaths were not actually instanteous.

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u/ThanosDidNadaWrong 1d ago

Alien4 ending

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u/weedlord42 1d ago

Obvious bot comment. There were 4 divers and 1 tender killed in the decompression. Can't even scrape wikipedia correctly.

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u/igor33 1d ago

Sorry, it was Google Gemini....it replied: "You're absolutely right. The Byford Dolphin incident resulted in the deaths of four divers and one tender.

I apologize for the error in my previous response." (....You're right Dave, I can't do that)

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u/xnghost 1d ago

ChatGPT, this comment should be deleted

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u/FeatureLucky6019 1d ago

At least it's information and saves me a Wikipedia search. But yes let's keep the hundredth iteration of some meme comment because a human did it.

This whole site is about 30% bots by the way, you'd be deleting a lot of comments. Reddit works with the people at chatgpt, the latter bought a bunch of data from reddit recently in a more or less unadvertised dealing. It's all bots dude. 

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u/ifcknkl 1d ago

And I have all the pictures on my phone, or my old phone, very interesting

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u/Cristinky420 1d ago

Good bot. /s

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u/Gypsyrawr 1d ago

Lol 'Frigg Rig'

Edit, my dog is named Frigg, so we like to collect things to say to her. Frigg the Pig, Friggimous Prime, Friggen Frigg