Would you ever risk your life for your job? Tell us in the comments below! The divers and their highly trained assistants - known as dive tenders - often work intense 16-hour days as hundreds of their colleagues work in comparative safety in the huge, main rig above.
They might be separated by metres of water but they have one goal - get the job done and get home.But while staying on the seabed for long periods of time can reduce the divers' chances of falling ill with the bends, there is a lot that can go horribly wrong 508ft beneath the surface.On November 5, 1983, five men died in horrific circumstances when an airlock failure caused their bodies to quite literally burst open deep below the surface of the North Sea as they worked on the.
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