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The North Sea oil rush of the 1970s offered big rewards for high-risk work and claimed several lives. Now families of British workers who died in Norwegian waters want to understand what happened to their loved ones.
In the early 1970s, the North Sea was a watery Wild West.
The world's economies were being pushed towards recession by astronomical oil prices.
In the relentless pursuit of oil, untapped sources under the ocean floor became the new panacea for Western governments.
Tempted by the high rewards - some would say greed - hundreds of British deep-sea divers took part in the exploration of the North Sea oil fields in British and Norwegian territorial waters.
They were the aquatic equivalent of the prospectors who had, a century earlier, searched the deserts and canyons of North America for 'black gold'.
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Norway's underwater 'guinea pigs' 
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