Commercial diver fatality - Norway

[DandyDon]

Diver dies after Westcon incident

A worker has died after being critically injured in a diving accident at Norway’s Westcon yard.
The 22-year-old diver, who worked for sub-contractor AD Offshore, was injured on 27 January in the incident while carrying out diving work near a rig at the Olen yard on Norway’s west coast.

However, the man died last Friday from his injuries after being taken to Haukeland University Hospital, Westcon said in a statement. The victim has not yet been named.

Westcon Yards managing director Oystein Matre said in a statement: “We are in deep sorrow. This is incomprehensibly tragic and our thoughts go out to his closest ones.”

The police and Norway’s Labour Inspection Authority are looking into the incident, while Westcon has launched its own investigation.

Matre said earlier “there was no indication that routines were not followed” in relation to the incident.

 

[CuzzA]

Divers Association shared a link. - Divers Association | Facebook

So, there's a comment here that suggests a "Delta P" incident. Or differential pressure. It's interesting, as over the weekend I was watching a tv program that featured commercial divers doing work and one of the hazards was the potential for differential pressure sucking the diver into the newly created opening when the diver pulled a patch off the side of a vessel.

I wasn't aware of this hazard in diving, but of course it makes sense. I assume this risk is pretty much exclusive to commercial diving, right? Unless you start opening doors or pulling apart a wreck during a dive.

 

[Jax]

Wow. @Akimbo , can you elaborate?

 

[Steve_C]

I have seen times when due to water movement and currents elsewhere on a wreck a given opening would be drawing in water.

 

[JohnnyC]

Perfect example of delta p. God that would suck to be on the receiving end.

 

[CuzzA]