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Byford Dolphin Incident (en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nikolasavic 1091 days ago
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An oil rig that experienced an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injured another dive tender.

The divers were killed by a pressure of 9 atm. The pressure the Oceangate Titan experienced was over 400 atm.