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Ocean Systems' bell showing drop weight. The Drill Master diving accident was an incident in Norway in January 1974 that resulted in the death of two commercial divers.During a two-man dive from the North Sea rig Drill Master, the diving bell's drop weight was accidentally released, causing the bell to surface from a depth of 320 feet (98 m) with its bottom door open and drag the diver working ...
David Pleace, 57, died while scuba diving to a shipwreck in Scotland after part of his equipment disconnected. Scuba diver’s death preventable if equipment was properly checked, coroner says ...
A Norwegian mass murderer has won part of a human-rights case against the government. Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who was responsible for the deaths of 77 people in Norway in ...
[2] [3] Mevoli died at 1:44 p.m. He was the first athlete to die in an international free-diving competition. [3] The New York Times published a photograph of a visibly distressed Mevoli taken just after his return to the surface from his last dive and shortly before he lost consciousness. [1]
Rescue divers have spoken of the difficult circumstances they are facing in the search for six people who are still missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily.. The passengers were ...
David John Shaw (20 July 1954 – 8 January 2005) was an Australian scuba diver, technical diver, and airline pilot for Cathay Pacific, flying the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, then the 747-400, and then the A330-300, A340-300, and A340-600. [1] He flew for Cathay Pacific from 1989 until his death in 2005.
On 17 April 2002, a 44-year-old Norwegian worker on the rig was struck on the head and killed in an industrial accident. The accident resulted in Byford Dolphin losing an exploration contract with Statoil, which expressed concerns with the rig's operating procedures. The incident cost the company millions of US dollars in lost income. [12]
The 2011 Norway attacks, also called 22 July (Norwegian: 22. juli) [12] or 22/7 in Norway, [13] were two domestic terrorist attacks by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which a total of 77 people were killed.