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Pioneer North Sea Divers
FromWitness History
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In the 1970s, deep sea divers were at the sharp end of the North Sea oil boom. Alex Last has been speaking to the former diver David Beckett, who wrote The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver, about his dangerous life working under the waves.
Photo: A saturation diver works to fix an undersea oil pump in the North Sea (BBC)
Photo: A saturation diver works to fix an undersea oil pump in the North Sea (BBC)
Released:
Jul 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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