# 15th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon incident **URL:** \ **Category:** Offshore\ **Created:** [April 21, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/15th-anniversary-of-the-deepwater-horizon-incident/72424 "2025-04-21T16:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
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Nothing on the scale of the Piper Alfa disaster, but on a drillship I was Capt. on in 1978-80 we lost a diver due to a silly request from the “Company man” to send divers down “to check the water depth” This while we were in the process of running anchors and without consulting me. The wire parted and the diving bell inside fell to the bottom, with two divers. We managed to get both up and into decompression, but one died. PS\> Not involved in the accident, but I was Marine Advisor onboard the “DB29” before she sunk off Hainan, China in 1991: > [@The Loss of the DB29](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-loss-of-the-db29/46764): > > This is what I was able to write in my newsletter the other day about this accident: “On the last day of October this year a crane barge, the DB-1 sank in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico. When I started searching for a bit more information about the accident I came up with stuff about the loss of the DB29, a derrick barge owned by McDermott back in August 1991. The barge had been laying pipe for an offshore oilfield in the South China Sea and at the time of the sinking was on passage being … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/15th-anniversary-of-the-deepwater-horizon-incident/72424)._