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3X Dykking I Egypt (Diving In Egypt). | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 12.06.2015 | Click Here |
3X Dykking I Israel (Diving In Israel). | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 17.12.2006 | Click Here |
3X Dykking På Svalbard Og I Nord (Diving On Svalbard And The North). | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 22.08.2016 | Click Here |
3X Minne fra 1968 (Recollections from 1968). | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 2019 | Click Here |
3X Minne fra 1969 (Recollections from 1969). | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 1969 – 2019 | Click Here |
10 things no one tells you before you become a deep-sea diver. | Article – David Harrison Becket | (United Kingdom 2016) | Click Here |
11 Important Steps in the Evolution of Diving Suits | Website | Click Here | |
20,000 Jobs Under The Sea | Torrance R. Parker | (America 1997) | Click Here |
300 Metre dives historically listed by country | PDF Download | (Norwegian) | Click Here |
32 Battalion by Piet Nortie – II Volumes | Amazon.com: Books | Click Here | |
A Brief History of Diving: Free Divers, Bells and Helmets | Website | Click Here | |
Aberdeen memorial statue for North Sea divers | Website | Click Here | |
A Century in Oil | Stephen Howarth | (United Kingdom 1997) | Click Here |
Accelerated Emergency Decompression from Saturation in Commercial Diving Operations. | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Acergy – Ships and Oil | Website | Click Here | |
Adjunctive Therapy For Decompression Illness | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Helicopter Service AS – Early history (Norwegian) | Website | Click Here | |
A Family Of Offshore Construction Vessels | Website | Click Here | |
Aftenbladet | (Newspaper) | Published 25.11.2012 | Click Here |
AHTS “Bourbon Dolphin” at MODO “Transocean Rather” Disaster | Website | North Sea Uk Sector – 12 April 2007 | Click Here |
AHTS Bourbon Dolphin – Capsizing 2007 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
A life under pressure: the lives of North Sea divers mirror the stormy state of the oil-and-gas industry. | Article | Click Here | |
Alexander L Kjelland – Disaster. 1980 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Alexander L Kjelland – Accident Report | Website | Click Here | |
Alexander L Kjelland – Riksrevisjonens Rapport | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Alexander L Kjelland: Vi som reddet, berget, og etterforsket (Norwegian) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
All The Men In The Sea | The Fate of DLB 269 | October 1995 | Click Here |
Analysis of risk in manned underwater operations | PDF Download | 2005 | Click Here |
Anchor Line Failures – Norwegian Continental Shelf | PDF Download | 2010-2014 | Click Here |
A pipeline retrospective | Website | 2000 | Click Here |
Aquatic commons – Historical Diver no 7 | Magazine | (America 1996) | |
A review of accelerated decompression from heliox saturation in commercial diving emergencies | Website | Click Here | |
A Review of Physiological and Performance Limits in Saturation Diving 1968-1983 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
A short Norwegian diving History | Bjørn W. Kahrs | (Norway 2014) | Click Here |
A Time To Die | Robert Moore | (United Kingdom 2002) | Click Here |
Application of Subsea Systems | Goodfellow Associates | (America 1990) | Click Here |
Aviation Safety Network | Website | Click Here | |
Bangkok Top Secret – Force 136 at War by Sir Andrew Gilchrist | Amazon.com: Books | Click Here | |
Bangkok Top Secret – Force 136 at War – Sir Andrew Gilchrist | Website | 1970 | Click Here |
BASE Jumping accidents and evolution | Website | Click Here | |
BASE Jumping fatality list | Website | Click Here | |
BASE Jumping Research | Website | Click Here | |
BASE Kjerag | Website | Click Here | |
BASE – Stavanger | Website | Click Here | |
BASE – Bjarte Berntsen | Website | Click Here | |
BASE – Frank Gambale III | Website | Click Here | |
BASE – Thor Alex Kappfjell | Website | Click Here | |
Base – Very Important Criminal | Website | Click Here | |
Behind the Mask – Regulating health & Safety in Britain’s Offshore Oil & Gas Industry | PDF Download | 1997 | Click Here |
Behnke A, Effects of High Pressures: Prevention and Treatment of Compressed Gas Illness | Med Clinics NA, pp 1212 – 1237 | July 1942 | Click Here |
Bill Lair (PARU)Thailand 1951-1977 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Black Water, By Strength and Guile, A life in the SBS | by Don Camsell | (United Kingdom 2000) | Click Here |
Blowback; by Michael Forwell with Lee Bullman | Website | Published in 2009 | Click Here |
Blowout (well Drilling) – Notable Offshore Well Blowouts | Website | Click Here | |
Børge Ausland and Mike Horn | Website | Click Here | |
Børge Michael Jangaard Ousland | Website | Click Here | |
Born in Blood, The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry | Website | by John J. Robinson | Click Here |
Bristow Helicopters Ltd – History | Website | Click Here | |
Builders of Empire – Freemasons and British imperialism, 1717-1927 | Website | Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs | Click Here |
Byford Dolphin Court Case Coward v Comex Houlder Diving limited | Website | Click Here | |
Byford Dolphin – Accident Report (Norwegian) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Cia’s Clandestine Services Histories Of Civil Air Transport | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Can reservoir depletion be credited for Relief Well Operations? Petroleumstilsynet (PSA) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
CATS System – Technical Overview | PDF Download | Click Here | |
CCO Ltd, Diving Management Studies No 5, authored by Christian Cadieux | PDF Download | 26 June 2021 | Click Here |
Chapter 11 (Sample PDF) – History of Oilfield Diving | Christopher Swann | (America 2007) | Click Here |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Website | Click Here | |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Website (BBC Interview) | Click Here | |
Christopher Hill Fatality – Diver makes £1.2m explosion claim | Website | Click Here | |
Chronology of Submersible Rigs – MODU’s | Website | Click Here | |
Closed Pattaya a-Go-Go Bars | Website | Click Here | |
Combat Frogmen | Michael Welham | (United Kingdom 1989) | Click Here |
Comex Hyperbaric Center Dives | PDF Download | 1965-2000 | Click Here |
Comex History | Website | Click Here | |
Commercial Divers’ Subjective Evaluation of Saturation. | J. P. Imbert, F. Z. Kiboub, O Loennechen, I Eftedal | (Online 2018) | Click Here |
Commercial Diving Directory | Longstreath.com | (United Kingdom 1997-2021) | Click Here |
Commercial Saturation Diver Blood chemistry | PDF Download | 2018 | Click Here |
COVERT SHORES: The Story of Naval Special Forces Missions and Minisubs | Website | Click Here | |
Cry from the Deep | Ramsey Flynn | (America 2004) | Click Here |
Dagfinn Blehr – Forsvarets Rapport om Nordsjødykking | PDF Download | 2016 | Click Here |
Daniel Minot Dorothy, Executive Editor | Website | Click Here | |
Danny Wilson’s Legacy – 400 Foot gas dive | Website | 03.11.1962 | Click Here |
DB-269: All the Men In the Sea: | The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History | Click Here | |
Deadly Easter Polar Vortex 1917 | Website | Click Here | |
Deadly Easter Polar Vortex 1952 | Website | Click Here | |
Decent – The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss | by Brad Matsen | (America 2005) | Click Here |
Decompression procedures for transfer under pressure (‘TUP’) diving | Website | Click Here | |
Deep Sea Diving and Submarine Operations | Robert H Davis | (6th Edition England 1955) | Click Here |
Deep-Sea Driller Disaster | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Deepwater Horizon – Control system Report | PDF Download | Click Here | |
A) DELTA 32 mutation HIV/AIDS Resistance Gene | Website | Click Here | |
B) DELTA 32 mutation HIV/AIDS Resistance Gene | Website | Click Here | |
Den nakne sannhet om det svarte gullet | (Norwegian Language webpage) | Click Here | |
Descent – The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss by Brad Madsen | Amazon.com: Books | Click Here | |
Det Norske Veritas – Diving systems | PDF Download | 2017 | Click Here |
Det Norske Kongehus – Tidelinger av Ordinerer og Medaljer | Website | Click Here | |
Det Søndenfjelds-Norske Dampskipsselskap AS (DSND) | Website | Click Here | |
Diver fatalities (Australian – ADAS) | Website | Click Here | |
Diver George Hunt | Website | 2022 | Click Here |
Diver to Umbilical Attachment Hazard Observation | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Divers Compensation Case | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Divex UK SLS MkIV 2004 Rebreather Bailout | Website | Click Here | |
Diving Bell 1673 – Kilstraumen Austrheim | Website | Click Here | |
Diving & EOD — THE VERNON LINK | Website | Click Here | |
Diving in the U.S. Navy: A Brief History | Website | Click Here | |
Diving & hyperbaric Medicine | Website | Click Here | |
Diving Medicine | Alfred A. Bove and Jefferson C. Davis | (America 1990) | Click Here |
Diving: NOU 2003 – 5 Rapport: Pionerdykkerne i Nordsjøen | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Diving on Statpipe | Website | Click Here | |
Diving ROV Specialists | Website | Click Here | |
Donald (Don) Rodocker | Website | Click Here | |
DP – Close Proximity Dynamic Positioning with MSV Regalia | PDF Download | Click Here | |
DP (Dynamic Positioning) History | PDF Document | Click Here | |
DP: History Of Dynamic Positioning | Website | Click Here | |
Dräger FGT I/A Rebreather | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Dräger FGT 1/A & FGT 1/D Semiclosed Rebreather – Data sheet | Website | Click Here | |
Dramatic failure of materials in drilling platforms at sea | Website | Click Here | |
DRASS dive systems | Website | Click Here | |
Drilling Rigs Built In U.S. Ship Yards 1947-2016 | Website | Click Here | |
DS Seacrest – Investigation report | PDF Download | Click Here | |
DSV CSO Wellservicer Fire in Engine Room | Website | 04/06/2007 | Click Here |
DSV Koosha I – Sinking | Website | Click Here | |
DSV Seamec III – H2S contamination of Bell | Website | 2004 | Click Here |
DSV Seaway Condor – ADS Newtsuit | Website | 1992 | Click Here |
DSV Skandi Artic – Bell Drop | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Dynamic Positioning (DP) – The story: | Website | Click Here | |
Dykkemedisinsk Håndbok | Stein Tønjum | (Bergen 1989) | |
Dykking i Oljå | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 1966-1980 | Click Here |
Edinburgh and her cargo of Gold | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Egil Eid and Per Ludviksen: deep dive human test rabbits | Website | 1972 | Click Here |
Ekofisk Area – North Sea | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Ekofisk Field layout | Website | Click Here | |
Ekofisk Jacking | Website | 1987-1988 | Click Here |
Eli Thompson – Skydiver Extraordinary | Website | Click Here | |
Emergency Rescue | Allan Hall | (United Kingdom 1995) | Click Here |
Erik Sørensen aka Pegleg – Skandibar Pattaya | Website | Click Here | |
European Standard: Compressed gases for breathing apparatus-EN 12021:2014 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Evaluating accidents in the offshore drilling of petroleum | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Evaluation of Free-fall Lifeboats launch performance | Website | Click Here | |
Extreme Rouge Wave | Website | Click Here | |
Extreme sports danger statistics | Website | Click Here | |
Fibron Diving Umbilical’s – Brochure | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Fra Dypet – Nordsjødykkerenes Historie – Christian Catomeris & Oliver Truc | Google Books | 2008 | Click Here |
Freemasonry Glossary | Website | Click Here | |
FGT 1 I/D (Dräger FGT Half-Closed Rebreather – Non Mag/Nitrox) | Website | Click Here | |
Fires in Hyperbaric & Hypobaric chambers 1923-1996 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Flysikkerhet I Norsk Luftfart Under Omstillingsprosesser | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Forging Norwegian Special Operations Forces | PDF Download | 2014 | Click Here |
Forsvarets ansvar/rolle i den petrolleumsrelaterte dykker virksomheten i Nordsjøen | PDF Download | May 2017 | Click Here |
Fra Marinedykkingens Historie I Norge | Erling Krange | (Kristiansand 1994) | Click Here |
Francis, aka Papy One (Grandfather One) | Website | Click Here | |
Frank Gambalie – BASE Jumper – RIP | Website | Click Here | |
Freemasony Glossary | Website | Click Here | |
Frigg Field – North Sea | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Frigg Oil Field | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Frog Tales | Mark D. Holroyd | (America 2013) | Click Here |
From Naval Diving History in Norway | by Erling Krange (Norwegian) | Click Here | |
GBS Draugen | Website | Click Here | |
General Aquadyne Inc. Santa Barbara, California – Dive Helmets and Masks | Website | Click Here | |
Georges Arnoux | Website | Click Here | |
Giant Discovery: A History of Ekofisk Through the First 20 Years | Website | Click Here | |
Global Industries, Ltd. | Company Profile, Business Description, History. | (America) | Click Here |
Go Get a Woolly Hat | Adrian Ladd | (United Kingdom 2009) | Click Here |
Greater Plutonio – Angola 2007 | Website | Click Here | |
Global Marine – historical fleet | Website | Click Here | |
Goldfinder: The True Story of $100 Million In Lost Russian Gold — and One Man’s Lifelong Quest to Recover It: | Jessop, Keith, Jessop, Neil: 9780471407331: Amazon.com: Books | Click Here | |
Gothenburg Port – Harbour Cranes | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Guide for managing risks from high pressure water jetting | PDF Download | (Australia 2013) | Click Here |
Haemoglobin During & Following a 4-Week Commercial Saturation Dive to 200m | Website | Click Here | |
Håndbok for Dykking i Sjøforsvaret SUP 13(B) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Handbook of Freemasonry | Website | Henrik Bogdan, Jan A.M. Snoek (editors) | Click Here |
Hannes Keller, Diving pioneer and Renaissance man | DIVER Editorial | (America 2018) | Click Here |
Hannes Keller’s 1,000′ Dive:- Excerpt from: The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure | Christopher Swann | (America 2007) | Click Here |
Hans Christian Johannesen | Website | Click Here | |
Hardship Posting (Vol 1-5) | by Stu Lloyd | 2001-2018 | Click Here |
Harry Wardle – Obituary | Website | Click Here | |
Helicopter Accident Database | Website | Click Here | |
Helicopter Accidents & Incidents – AAIB – United Kingdom | Website | Click Here | |
Helicopter Accidents & Incidents – Statens Havarikommisjon – Norway | Website | Click Here | |
Helicopter ditching and water impact occupant survivability | PDF Download | 2016 | Click Here |
Helicopter Safety Study 3 – SINTEF – Accidents in the oil and gas industry (Norwegian & English versions) | Website | Click Here | |
Helicopter Service AS – Early history (Norwegian) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Historical Diver Vol 13 1997 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
History of A Belgian Sat Diver | Click Here | ||
History of Diving and NOAA Contributions | NOAA | Click Here | |
History of Dräger Werke | PDF Download | Click Here | |
History of Oxygen Rebreathers | Website | Click Here | |
History of Siebe Gorman & Co | Graces Guide | (United Kingdom) | Click Here |
History of the Fenzy vest / BCD | Website | Click Here | |
History of Underwater Diving | Wikipedia | Click Here | |
HL Saipem 7000 – J-Lay Tower Fatalities | PDF Download | 17 September 2008 | Click Here |
Huisman Equipment | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Hydra 8: Pre-commercial Hydrogen Diving Project | Website | Click Here | |
Hydrogen Molecular Biology and Medicine | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Ice Sea Museum – Aarvak | Website | Click Here | |
IMCA SAFETY FLASHES | Website – PDF Downloads | Click Here | |
IMCA – DSV Serious DP diving incident DP-Run off – Divers in the water | Website | 2013 | Click Here |
In Search of the ‘Hamilla Mitchell’ | Website Article | Click Here | |
Inquiry report attachment; from the investigation into the Norwegian military’s (Navy) role in North Sea diving. | PDF Download (In Norwegian) | Click Here | |
Inside the life of a deep sea saturation diver, one of the most dangerous & isolated jobs in the world | Website Article | Click Here | |
Ishavsfart Fra Gratangen og Gamle Ibestad | Eivind H. Kristiansen | (Norway 1989) | Click Here |
Ishavs Museet – Isflaket no 4/2006 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Jacob Stolt Nielsen | May 12, 1931 – February 15, 2015. | Click Here | |
JFD DIVEX COBRA Bailout | PDF Download | Click Here | |
John Houlder | Website Newspaper Obituary | Click Here | |
John Mjøen | Website | 1989 | Click Here |
Johnson Sea Link entanglement | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Jostedalsbreen | Website | Click Here | |
Kaldt Dypt og Ensomt | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | 2018 | Click Here |
Katastrofer og store ulykker i norsk petroleumsvirksomhet | Website | Click Here | |
Katastrofer og ulykker på norsk sokkel 1967-2009 (Catastrophes and accidents on the Norwegian continental shelf ) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Kim Lindegaard Nielsen: Danish ‘Bandidos’ Member Arrested in Thailand | Website | Click Here | |
Kim Lindegaard Nielsen: Arrested Bandidos Member Claims Innocence | Website | Click Here | |
Kirby Morgan Hat and Mask History | Website | Click Here | |
Kirby Morgan SuperLite 27B Helmet | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Kursk | Peter Truscott | (United Kingdom 2002) | Click Here |
Kursk: The Kursk Accident – Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority – Report | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Kursk – Disaster Day by Day – BBC: | Website | Click Here | |
Kursk Down | Clyde Burleson | (America 2002) | Click Here |
Kursk – Radiation Report | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Kursk – Russian Nuclear Power Plants for Marine Applications – A | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Kursk – Russian Nuclear Power Plants for Marine Applications – B | Website | Click Here | |
Kursk Time Line / Bellona: | Website | Click Here | |
La Tragedia del Huichol-II: Crónica de un Naufragio | Spanish Edition | Click Here | |
LB Viking Piper (Later renamed; McDermott Lay Barge, LB 200, Acergy Piper and Castoro 7, Scrapped 2016) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
LeTourneay Inc – Keppel LeTourneau USA Inc (ex-Marathon LeTourneau Company, Keppel AMFELS, Penn Central Corporation, General Cable Corp, Rowan Companies, Joy Global, Cameron International & Keppel O. & M). | Website | Click Here | |
Life Rafts – Solas | Website | Click Here | |
Listed Norwegian related early diving contractors | Leif-Tore Skjerven – PDF Download | Click Here | |
Long Term outcome study of the survivors of the Alexander L. Kjelland Disaster | Website | Click Here | |
Lossius investigation of North Sea Pioneers divers – In Norwegian | PDF Download | 31.12.2002 | Click Here |
Lost Bell Hypothermia | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Lieutenant-Commander Harry Wardle, Founder of Strongwork Diving (International) UK Ltd. | Website | Click Here | |
Lieutenant Commander Ian Edward FRASER VC DSC RD* JP Royal Navy – 18 December, 1920 – 1 September, 2008 | Website | Click Here | |
Managing Technological Accidents: Two Blowouts In the North Sea | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Manned Submersibles | Frank R. Busby (Website) | 1976 | Click Here |
Marinens Fartøyer 1939-1945 Og Deres Skjebne | Frank Abelsen | (Norway 1986) | Click Here |
Marine forecasts glossary | Website | Click Here | |
Maritime Accidents & Serious Incidents (UK) | Website | Click Here | |
Martin Woodward MBE | Website | Click Here | |
MATIS (Modular Advanced Tie-in System) | Website | Click Here | |
McDermott 125-Years-of-Excellence – Timeline | Website | Click Here | |
Miller, J.W and Koblick, I.G, Living and Working in the Sea | 1st Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. | (New York 1984) | Click Here |
Minedykkerkommandoen | Website | Click Here | |
Dykking Magazine / Minedykker | Website | Click Here | |
MODU Ocean Ranger | Website | Click Here | |
Mortality among professional divers in Norway | Website | Click Here | |
Mortality among professional divers in Norway | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Mount Kinabalu (1) | Website | Click Here | |
Mount Kinabalu (2) | Website | Click Here | |
Mumbai High North Platform Disaster | Website | 2005 | Click Here |
M/V Andrea Doria salvage | PDF Download | Click Here | |
MV Odd Lundberg IV (T-55-G) | Website | 2019 | Click Here |
Nautical Terms | Website | Click Here | |
Nordsjødykkerene | (Website in Norwegian) | Click Here | |
Nordsjø Tragedien,1980 | Website | Click Here | |
Norsk Dykking | Bjorn W. Kahrs | (Norway 2014) | Click Here |
North Sea Divers (pdf Download) (In English) | Kristin Øye Gjerde & Helge Ryggvik | (Norway 2009) | Click Here |
North Sea Divers case | PDF Download | 2008 | Click Here |
North Sea Divers: A requiem | Jim Limbrick | (United Kingdom 2016) | Click Here |
North Sea Oil and gas – Journals and Periodicals | Website | 1976-2013 | Click Here |
North Sea Petroleum Activities (Maps) | Website | Click Here | |
North Sea UK sector – Platform Collision incident database | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Norwegian Diving and Treatment Tables | Cdr SG (ret) Arne-Johan Arntzen Deceased SurgCdr SG Svein Eidsvik | Click Here | |
Norwegian Naval responsibility & partaker in petroleum-related deep diving, by Dagfin Blehr (DFS) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Norwegian Offshore Oil Fields | Website | Click Here | |
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate-Annual Reports | Website – PDF Downloads | Click Here | |
Norwegian Registered Commercial Divers Deaths In Norway (Norwegian text) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Norwegian WWII losses | Website | Click Here | |
Norway’s North Sea Divers Lost Their Minds over Oil | Website | Click Here | |
Norway’s underwater ‘guinea pigs’ | BBC Website | Click Here | |
NOTRASHIP, Hvordan Staten Raner Sjøfolk | Website | Click Here | |
NOU 2003: 5 Pioneer Divers (Norwegian) | Website | Click Here | |
NTNU – Conceptual Design of Purpose-Built Diving Support Vessel | PDF Download | Click Here | |
NUTEC – Norwegian report of 248 dives to 300 meters or deeper | PDF Download | 14.09.2012 | Click Here |
NUI / NUTEC Diving Research (Norwegian) | Website | Click Here | |
NUI – Emergency decompression from heliox saturation dives | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Off-gassing of volatile hydrocarbons in hyperbaric environments | PDF Download | 1997 | Click Here |
Offshore Blowouts Causes and Trends | Website | Click Here | |
Offshore Blowout – Oil Spill – Mini History | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Offshore Pioneers; Brown & Root The History of Offshore Oil & Gas | Joseph A. Pratt, Tyler Priest, Christopher J. Castaneda | (America 1997) | Click Here |
Offshore Pipeline Construction Industry Study | PDF Download | 2019 | Click Here |
Odd Lundberg AS | Website | (Norway) | Click Here |
Oil 101 | Morgan Downey | (America 2009) | Click Here |
Oil & Gas Fields in Norway | Website | Click Here | |
One hundred years in the Norwegian Sea | Bob Dickson & Svein Østerhus | Click Here | |
Ordeal by Ice | by Rorke Bryan | 2011 | Click Here |
OSM – SEA | Website | Click Here | |
OSV – Vessel History Register | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Oversikt over ulykker ved arbeidsdykking/arbeid under vann | PDF Download | (utg. 01.09.2017) | Click Here |
Overview of Norwegian accidents during inshore occupational diving/underwater work | PDF Download | (issued 01.09.2017) | Click Here |
P-36 Disaster Report (Brazil) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Patrick Costello, aged 27: Diving death 24.07.2010 | Investigation report: PDF Download | Click Here | |
Pattaya Dirt Road Hash House Harriers | Founded August 1985 | Click Here | |
Pattaya Hash House Harriers | Founded January 1984 | Click Here | |
Pattaya Jungle Hash House Harriers | Founded May 2003 | Click Here | |
Pipelines | Rafael Kandiyoti | (London 2008) | Click Here |
Pipelines and land facilities (Norway) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Pipe Line Installation Methods | Website | Click Here | |
På Dypt Vann | Else M. Tungland | (Norway 2004) | Click Here |
Per Kristen Skipnes | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Perils of the deep. | Website | 2013 | Click Here |
Petroleumsdykkere: En historie om omsorg og kameratskap (Deep sea divers: A tale about care and camaraderie) (Norwegian Text) | Website | Click Here | |
Pionerdykkerne i Nordsjøen: rapport fra granskingskommisjonen-2002 (Norwegian Text) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Pionerdykkerne i Nordsjøen 2003: Goverment report: | Website | Click Here | |
Polar Journal – Whaling in the 1950s | Website | Click Here | |
Prosjektledelse I Norge Gjennom 50 År | Utgitt av NPF | (Norway 2018) | Click Here |
PRS Habitat | Website | Click Here | |
PRS (Pipe Line Repair System) Welding | Website | Click Here | |
Raising The Kursk | by Hans Offringa | (Holland 2003) | Click Here |
Redning Paa Dypet; 20 år siden Kursk-ulykken | Forsvarets Forum | (Norway 2020) | Click Here |
Requiem for a Diver | by Jakie Warner | (United Kingdom 1990) | Click Here |
Requiem for a Diver: Warner, Jackie, Park, Fred, Benn, Tony: 9780851745787: | Amazon.com: Books | Click Here | |
Reduced health-related quality of life in former North Sea divers is associated with decompression Sickness Vol 57 | A Irgens , M Gronning, K Troland, E Sundal, H Nykland, E Thorsen | (Norway 2007) | Click Here |
Reefer Men; The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Drugs Ring, by Tony Thompson | Website | Published in 2007 | Click Here |
Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman | Website | Click Here | |
Review of saturation decompression procedures used in commercial diving | Website | Click Here | |
Review on Fixed and Floating Offshore Structures | Website | Click Here | |
RICE, REFUGEES, AND ROOFTOPS, AIR AMERICA, INC. BOOK ELEVEN 1970 YEAR OF THE DOG | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Rig Accidents / Blowouts (Alphabetically listed) | Website | Click Here | |
Rig Incident List (DS/JU/LR/P/SS/S) | Website | Click Here | |
Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne: Part I of II | Website | Click Here | |
Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne: Part II of II | Website | Click Here | |
Royal Navy personnel killed while serving in Mine-warfare, Diving and EOD roles | Website | Click Here | |
RPLV Acergy Falcon – Fire 2009 | Website | Click Here | |
Rune Gjeldnes & Torry Larsen – First Unsupported Crossing of the Arctic Ocean (Dead men Walking) | Website | 2000 | Click Here |
Russel Robinson | Website | Click Here | |
Russian Submarines-Project 949, 949A, 949AM and 949U | Website | Click Here | |
The AHT “Stevns Power” at HL RPLV “Castoro Otto” Disaster | Nigeria – 19 October 2003 | Click Here | |
The Anatomy of Courage by Lord Moran – 1945 | Amazon.com: Books | Click Here | |
The Artifact Biography of a Slave Shipwreck – The Enterprise | Website | Click Here | |
The History of Dräger | PDF Download | Click Here | |
The History of MODU Drill Master (Norwegian text) | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Thermal Protection – Hot Water Diving Suits | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Sabastian Junger-Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging – (PTSD) | Website | Click Here | |
Salvamar – A Tale of Salvage & Deep Diving | Website | Click Here | |
SAR Helicopter Rescue – Shetlands | PDF Download | 19 November 1997 | Click Here |
SAR Helicopter Rescue Missions – UK | Website | Click Here | |
Saturation Diving Overview | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Saturation Diving Technique | Website | Click Here | |
Scandpower (Ptil) – Analysis Of Risk In Manned Underwater Operations (Divers) | PDF Download | 2004 | Click Here |
Sea Gem | Website | 1965 | Click Here |
Semi-Submersibles Designs | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Ship Building History – Drilling Rigs | Website | Click Here | |
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea | by Gary Kinder | (America 1998) | Click Here |
Ship/Platform Collision Incident Database (2001) for offshore oil and gas installations | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Ship/Platform Collision Incident Database (2015) for offshore oil and gas installations | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Siam Air Sports – Britten Norman BN-2A-26 Islander – Plane Crash | Website | Click Here | |
SINTEF – Helicopter Safety Study number 4 | PDF Download | 17 January 2023 | Click Here |
SINTEF Offshore Blowout database | Website | Click Here | |
Sjøhistorie (Sea History) | Website | Click Here | |
Skånevik Fjord Incident 320m – NSDA | Website | 1978 | Click Here |
Skånevik – The Deepest Dive The 1978 fatal dive accident of David Hoover (English) | Website | Click Here | |
Skånevik – The investigation of the Fatal diving accident | Website | Click Here | |
Skånevik – The World’s Safest Dive | Jan Christian Warlo (English) – PDF Download | 2013 | Click Here |
Skånevik – Verdens Sikreste Dykk | Jan Christian Warlo (Norwegian) – PDF Download | 2013 | Click Here |
Skipshistorie (Ships History) | Website | Click Here | |
Smith F.J.C, Bennett, G.A, Heim, JW, Thompson, R.M, Drinker, CK | Morphological Changes in the Lungs of Rats Living Under Compressed Air Conditions, J.Exp. Med, 56:79-89 | 1932 | Click Here |
Spies of the Deep | W. Craig Reed | (America 2020) | Click Here |
Standard Time Zones Of The World | Website | Click Here | |
Stars Beneath the Sea – Trevor Norton | Amazon Books | 1999 | Click Here |
Stena Seaspread incident | Website | 1981 | Click Here |
Stolt Nielsen | Website | Click Here | |
Stolt Nielsen S.A: | Website | Click Here | |
Stolt Nielsen Limited History 1959-2021 | Website | Click Here | |
Stolt Offshore S.A. – Annual Report 2000 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Store Norske Leksikon: Nordsjødykkerene: | Website | Click Here | |
Submarine rescue ships with the Russian Navy | Website | Click Here | |
Subsea 7 – Inspiring People The Subsea 7 Story – The First 50 years – 2022 | Website | Click Here | |
Subsea 7 | Website | Click Here | |
Subsea Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms | Website | Click Here | |
Survey And Analysis Of Fatal Accidents In The Commercial Diving Sector – 1975-2014 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Svein Eidsvik (MD) | Website | Click Here | |
Taking the Tide Where it Serves | Dave Adamson | (United Kingdom 2021) | Click Here |
Thai 400-Way | Website | 2006 | Click Here |
The «Alexander L. Kielland» Disaster 1980 (Norwegian Text) | Website | Click Here | |
Théo Mavrostomos – Interview | Website | Click Here | |
The DS Seacrest Disaster | Website | Thailand – 02 November 1989 | Click Here |
The DSV Sumadra Suraksha Disaster | Website | India – 27 July 2005 | Click Here |
The Hung Society & Freemasonry – The Chinese Way | Website | Click Here | |
The Subsea 7 Story | Website | Click Here | |
The 1978 fatal dive accident of David Hoover | Kjersti Knudssøn | (Norway 20.10.2015) | Click Here |
The Animals Who Died for Deep Diving Research | Website | Click Here | |
The Craft In The East | Christopher Haffner | 1977 | Click Here |
The Final Dive – The Life and Death of Buster Crabb | by Don Hale | (United Kingdom 2007) | Click Here |
The Frogmen | by James Waldron & James Gleeson | (United Kingdom 1950) | Click Here |
The History of Helix Energy Solutions Group | PDF Download | Click Here | |
The History of Oilfield Diving | Christopher Swann | (America 2007) | Click Here |
The Ideal Man | by Joshua Kurlantzick | 2011 | Click Here |
The Journal of Diving History | Volume 19 / Issue no 4 / No 69 / 2011 | Click Here | |
Theo Mavrotomos | Click Dive Magazine | 2018 | Click Here |
The Loonliness Of A Deep Sea Diver | David Harrison Beckett | (United Kingdom 2016) | Click Here |
The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power | Daniel Yergin | (America 1991) | Click Here |
The Scrap Book of Diving History ‘DiveScrap’ Index | David | (Holland) | Click Here |
The story behind dynamic positioning – KONGSBERG | Website | 2014 | Click Here |
The Wave | by Susan Casey | 2010 | Click Here |
The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver | Jen Banbury | (America 2018) | Click Here |
Thor Alex Kappfjell – Death | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Timeline of Diving Technology | Wikipedia | Click Here | |
Timeline of the “History of the District Grand Lodge of the Eastern Archipelago” | Website | Click Here | |
Tony Groom – Diver (Clearance and Saturation Diving book) | Website | Click Here | |
TQ (Tahitian Queen) | Website | Founded 1978 | Click Here |
TYNE BUILT SHIPS: A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built | Website | Click Here | |
U.S. Navy Diving Manual – Revision 7 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
U.S. Naval Experimental Diving | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Undercover Armies – CIA and Surrogate Warfare in Laos 1961-1973 | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Under pressure: my job as a deep sea saturation diver. | Article | (United Kingdom 2014) | Click Here |
Underwater Warriors | Paul Kemp | (United Kingdom 1996) | Click Here |
United Kingdom Continental Shelf – Ship/Platform Collision Incident Database (1996-2015) for offshore oil and gas installations | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Utvikling I Risikonivå – Norsk Sokkel | Website | 2000 | Click Here |
Vascular Function Recovery Following Saturation Diving | Website | Click Here | |
Vi Menn | Website | Weekly Periodical | Click Here |
Vi Som Jobbet I “Stolt Nielsen Seaway” | Website | Click Here | |
Vi som reddet, berget og etterforsket (Norwegian text) | E-book | Click Here | |
Wadding – Escape from 603ft | Interview with Peter Wadding on a record breaking Submarine Escape | Barrow Submariners Association | Click Here |
War Sailors – A Norwegian Trauma | Website | Click Here | |
War Sailors – Memory Hall | Website | Click Here | |
War Sailors – Nortraship | Website | Click Here | |
War Sailors – What was wrong with the War sailors | Website | Click Here | |
WÄRTSILÄ Encyclopaedia of Marine Technology | Website | Click Here | |
WASP ADS | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Walking on Ocean Floors | Mike Mcgettigan (Author) | Australia (27.10.2019) | Click Here |
Waterfalls Norway | Website | Click Here | |
Why did the Kursk K-141 Sink | Website | Click Here | |
Work Capability and Physiological Effects in He-O2 Excursions to pressures of 400-800-1200-1600 FSW- | PDF Download | Click Here | |
Working Underwater: The story of the Commercial Diving Industry | Mike Cox – Flip book | (America 2018) | Click Here |
World Demand and Supply for Ships and Offshore Platforms | PDF Download | 1971 | Click Here |
World Fleet of Jack-Up Drilling Rigs | Website | 2009 | Click Here |
World’s highest waves form west of Norway | Bård Amundsen Journalist – Nancy Bazilchuk English version | Click Here | |
Verdens høyeste bølger er i havet utenfor Norge | Bård Amundsen Journalist – Nancy Bazilchuk Norwegian version | Click Here | |
Yorkshire Divers Commercial Divers Forum | Website | Click Here |
Some Norwegian books about Diving – Click to View
1869 Marinens dykkerelement: Om dykkerapparater og deres bruk ombord på krigsskipene.
1915 Dykkereglement for marinen
1941 Av Bjergningsvesenets Historie, Bind I, fra oldtid til nutid
1943 Av Bjergningsvesenets Historie, Bind II krigsår og krisetid
1946 Av Bjergningsvesenets Historie, Bind IIIA Havarihistorie
1946 Av Bjergningsvesenets Historie, Bind III B Havarifortegnelser
1949 De setter livet inn, redning, berging, dykking
1953 Den Tause Verden
1953 På 500 favners dyp
1954 Dypvannsskipet, 4050 meter ned i havet
1957 Froskemennene. Sannheten om undervannssabotørene
1957 Undervannssvømming: en håndbok om dykking som hobby
1963 Levende Hav
1967 Amatørdykking
1973 Skattejakt langs norskekysten
1975 Skatter på havbunnen: på dykkerjakt i Norges historie
1975 Den norske undervannsboka
1985 Med kamera under vann
1986 Den store boken om dykking
1994 Fra Marinedykkingens Historie i Norge
1996 Historie og drama fra havets bunn
1999 Ofret for svart gull
2000 Bobler i Blodet, Dypvannsdykker Ragnar R. Knutsen
2000 For lut og salt vann
2000 Den store skammen
2001 Best på bunnen. NUI gjennom 25 år
2003 Pionerdykkerne i Nordsjøen
2004 På Dypt Vann, Pionerdykkerne i Nordsjøen
2007 Sportsdykking i 50 år
2008 Fra dypet: Nordsjødykkernes historie
2009 Bragd og Berging, om forlis og bergingsaksjoner
2009 Nordsjødykkerne
2011 Hjelmdykking. En karriere på godt og vondt