Diving Gone WRONG: The Wildrake Diving Accident
The Wildrake diving accident was an incident near Scotland in August 1979 that killed two American commercial divers. During a routine dive in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, the diving bell of the diving support vessel MS Wildrake became separated from its main lift wire at a depth of over 520 ft (160 m). Although the bell was eventually recovered by Wildrake, its two occupants, 32-year-old Richard Arthur Walker and 28-year-old Victor Francis "Skip" Guiel Jr., died of hypothermia. The accident resulted in extensive subsequent litigation and led to important safety changes in the diving industry.#diving #gonewrong #disaster #tragedy #unfortunate #scary #accident #amazing #weird #money #commercialdiving #oil #drillrig #70s #saturationdiving #divingbell #ocean #dangerous #scotlandImage Credit: By Wusel007 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40696115 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Wildrake diving accident was an incident near Scotland in August 1979 that killed two American commercial divers. During a routine dive in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, the diving bell of the diving support vessel MS Wildrake became separated from its main lift wire at a depth of over 520 ft (160 m). Although the bell was eventually recovered by Wildrake, its two occupants, 32-year-old Richard Arthur Walker and 28-year-old Victor Francis "Skip" Guiel Jr., died of hypothermia. The...