Five men 'boiled from inside out' in horror North Sea tragedy

Five men died instantly when a catastrophic decompression accident occurred on the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea, ...
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The welded pipe that snapped and sunk a North Sea oil rig

In March 1980, the Alexander Kielland oil platform capsized in the North Sea after a support brace snapped from a cracked weld that engineers had already flagged as weak. Within 30 minutes, the ...
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Five men 'boil alive from inside out' in one of 'most gruesome deaths of all time'

In 1983, the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea saw a catastrophic decompression chamber failure that killed five men ...

Diver's 'most gruesome death of all time' as organs 'expelled from his body' underwater

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The fatal incident took place on a semi-submersible oil drilling rig where a team of six had been ...
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Thousands of flies landed on an oil rig in the North Sea. Scientists finally think they know why

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. There were thousands of ...
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Thousands of flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs then taking off a few hours later – here’s why

Toby Doyle is affiliated with The University of Exeter. Eva Jimenez-Guri is affiliated with The University of Exeter. On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon ...