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I had meant to post about this when I still had the link, but... It just bubbled back into my brain.
The story was about three men who died going down into a chain locker of a ship.
One at a time they entered and collapsed, with the second and third man trying to rescue the previous victims.
Turns out what snuffed them was a lack of oxygen in the space and what ate up all the oxygen was the anchor chain rusting.
I am continually surprised at what the universe puts out there that can kill you.
I remember that story, don't recall where I first found it, but I think this is the incident: https://officerofthewatch.com/2013/04/26/fatal-accident-during-inspection-of-chain-locker/
ReplyDeleteWTF? When you open a sealed locker you always let it air out before you go in. Captain John D. Wells taught me that a long time ago. And, if the first guy in gets croaked, boys that's God leaving you a post-it note reading; "Think again little sailormen.".
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ReplyDeleteConfined space entry is no joke. I got my NFPA cert for it years ago and was a shipyard competent person. No one gets out alive but the amazingly diverse ways you can buy it really stack the deck against making it to oatmeal years.
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