How to Survive 33 min after the Umbilical of a Saturation Diver Severed at a Depth of 90 msw?

ABSTRACT: In 2012, a severe accident happened during the mission of a professional saturation diver working at a depth of 90 m in the North Sea. The dynamic positioning system of the diver support vessel crashed, and the ship drifted away from the working place, while one diver's umbilical became snagged on a steel platform and was severed. After 33 min, he was rescued into the diving bell, without exhibiting any obvious neurological injury. In 2019, the media and a later 'documentary' film suggested that a miracle had happened to permit survival of the diver once his breathing gas supply was limited to only 5 min. Based on the existing data and phone calls with the diver concerned (Dc), the present case report tries to reconstruct, on rational grounds, how Dc could have survived after he was cut of

SUBMITTER: Dreyer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8956028 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature