Water Gun Malfunction: Freak Accident
Real Survival Stories
NOISER
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:38.9 | It's the night of March the 30th, 2011. |
| 0:43.3 | 150 kilometers off the coast of Western Australia, the deep blue of the ocean stretches as far as the eye can see. |
| 0:52.3 | It's a clear evening. The moon bounces off the water, reflecting ripples of light |
| 0:57.0 | onto the steel hull of a 300-foot boat, sitting serenely amid the waves. It's quiet on deck, |
| 1:05.0 | nothing stirs. For this diving support vessel, the action isn't so much above as below. |
| 1:13.9 | Beneath the hull, two parallel cables run directly down into the murky depths. |
| 1:20.9 | At the end of them, sits a pill-shaped diving bell about as wide as a double mattress, coated in a protective cage of thick metal |
| 1:28.7 | pipes. Out and away from this wardrobe-sized submarine run two more cables made up of color-coded |
| 1:37.5 | wires, twisted like licorice. These umbilical cords snake off in different directions, suspended in the inky underworld. |
| 1:46.0 | And at the other end of one of these cables, floating like an astronaut in deep space, |
| 1:53.0 | his 36-year-old commercial diver, Richard Bradley. |
| 1:58.0 | Today, Richard is cleaning the anchoring system for an oil tanker. |
| 2:02.6 | The tanker itself is in Singapore, unloading its cargo, giving Richard and his team a window to perform routine maintenance on the turret mooring. |
| 2:12.6 | A semi-permanent, submerged metal boy large enough to hold a tanker in place. |
| 2:20.3 | A seasoned saturation diver with over 15 years experience. |
| 2:24.3 | For Richard, this is just another day in the office. |
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