They also alleged the accident was due to a lack of proper equipment, including clamping mechanisms equipped with interlocking mechanisms (which would be impossible to open while the chamber system was still under pressure), outboard pressure gauges, and a safe communication system, all of which had been held back because of dispensations by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

Fatigue may also have taken its toll on the crew, who had been working for longer than 12 hours

Builder of the rig Aker ASA's Gross Profit was 7.16B

Norway's oil and gas tax revenue soars to record $89 bln

Imagine forcing your workers into more than 12h shifts, running on 30 year old equipment, the government straight up refusing to upgrade said equipment, while making billions in profits - they don't call it gross profit for no reason....

Fuck all of this

Normally when people say this it is at least a bit of an exageration, but not in this case. That is some straight up nightmare fuel.

Heres a taster for those of you who don't want to read the whole thing.

...bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which resulted in fragmentation of his body, followed by expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen...

The wildest part to me is someone having the last name Coward. The only way that surname makes sense is if it was changed from something worse like Kiddiddler.