Two divers suffered a terrible death in a submersible in 1973 in an incident which has come to be known as the Johnson Sea Link accident.

A year earlier the US navy destroyer USS Fred T. Berry had been scuttled off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef, and on 17 June, 1973 a submersible with four people on board was launched.

The plan was that they’d dive down in a submersible called the Johnson Sea Link and retrieve a fish trap from the sunken warship.

Aboard the submersible were pilot Archibald Menzies, scientist Robert P. Meek, along with divers Edwin Clayton Link (the son of the sub’s designer) and Albert Dennison Stover.

The sub had been working successfully for two years and this was to be dive number 130, but on that day disaster struck as the vessel got tangled on a cable from the warship’s wreckage.

The crew sent a distress signal and asked for help, but said they weren’t in any immediate danger.

Four men went down in the submersible, two did not survive. (YouTube/Cave Exploring Disasters)

They considered having divers Link and Stover exit the submersible and try to free the Johnson Sea Link from the cable by hand, but decided against it and instead chose to wait for a rescue vessel.

The carbon dioxide scrubber failed and the level of CO2 in the cabin increased over time, Menzies tried to counter this with a substance known as baralyme to absorb it.

The pilot section of the submersible where Menzies and Meek were had an acrylic plastic hull, while the diver section where Link and Stover were had an aluminium hull making it colder, and the baralyme stopped absorbing the CO2 in the diver section by about 10.00pm.

With the sub being trapped just after 9.45am, help for the Johnson Sea Link arrived at around 4.15pm the same day and at 10.25pm Link and Stover were having to breathe through masks.

Having been trapped in the stranded sub all day with the air running out, the idea for Link and Stover to dive out of the sub was once again considered but by this time they were too cold to attempt such a thing.

The sub snagged on a cable from the sunken ship it had dived down to, and it would be over a day before it could be brought back up to the surface. (YouTube/Cave Exploring Disasters)

They had been breathing a mixture of helium and oxygen, resulting in a loss of body heat, and both men were wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

Attempts from rescue vessels to dive down were unsuccessful at at 1.12am on 18 June there were reports from Menzies that Link and Stover were having convulsions.

There was no more sound heard from the two men after this point.

The Johnson Sea Link was at last raised out of the sea at 4:53pm on 18 June, with Menzies and Meek able to get out.

Sadly, with the diver section still pressurised rescuers couldn’t just open it up to get Link and Stover out as it would likely have killed them.

The bodies of the two men could be seen, but they were showing no signs of life.

The section of the sub was ventilated with helium and oxygen, as well as sprayed with hot water to increase the temperature, but on the morning of 19 June a doctor concluded that they were dead.

An autopsy determined that their cause of death had been respiratory acidosis due to carbon dioxide poisoning.

Death row meals have always interested the public, because sometimes inmates ask for the strangest of things before they die.

From a single olive to a lump of dirt, there’s been a whole host of requests over the years.

Freddie Eugene Owens decided to go big with his last meal before he was executed yesterday (20 September).

The death row inmate died by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, US.

Owens had originally been arrested for the 1997 murder of convenience store clerk Irene Grainger Graves.

The single mother-of-three was shot one night, leading to Owens and his co-defendant being sent down for their part in her murder.

But before the 46-year-old was put to death, it was revealed that he had written several unsettling letters to a woman he was in love with.

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, was put to death on 20 September via lethal injection (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

It’s thought to be his girlfriend at the time of his arrest.

USA Today obtained the letters which saw Owens telling a woman named ‘Aisha’ that ‘not a day goes by’ without him thinking of her.

In one letter, Owens demanded Aisha answers his questions and told her to ‘quit bull s****ing with his emotions’.

“I hate to believe this but I heard you signed statements against me,” he wrote.

“I rather you f**k my brother, leave me or kill me. When I get out, and that’s a fact, I have no words for those who betrayed me, just anger.”

A letter he sent in 1998 also read: “Aisha, you know the things I’ve done, you know what I’m capable of doing, so why do you tend to play these games with me?”

Being the first person to be executed in the state in 13 years, Owens certainly made his final meal memorable.

According to a South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesperson, it included a well-done ribeye steak, two cheeseburgers, six chicken wings, French fries, a piece of apple pie and two strawberry sodas.

On Wednesday (18 September) Owens’ co-defendant in the crime signed a sworn statement which claimed that he wasn’t even in the area when she was murdered.

The man ordered a giant steak and sides (Getty Stock Image)

Steven Golden told the South Carolina Supreme Court that he was ‘scared that he would get the death penalty if he didn’t make a statement’ which stated that Owens was there with him on 1 November 1997.

However, the court wasn’t convinced by this new information and the 46-year-old was still put to death.

Before the lethal injection, Owens said ‘bye’ to his attorney.

Gerald ‘Bo’ King, the inmate’s attorney, said the execution was a ‘tragedy’, and told USA Today: “Mr. Owens’s childhood was marked by suffering on a scale that is hard to comprehend.

“He spent his adulthood in prison for a crime that he did not commit. The legal errors, hidden deals, and false evidence that made tonight possible should shame us all.”

A man who had a heart attack when he was just 22 told people about the symptoms he suffered.

You might think that heart attacks are for people who are older, unhealthier or just generally not you, but they can strike those who least expect it.

Quitting smoking, losing weight, cutting down on alcohol, getting regular exercise and a healthy diet will all help your chances, but you can’t be 100 percent guaranteed that it won’t happen to you.

TikToker Tom Birchy talked his followers through the terrifying tale, and made sure they were in no doubt as to the symptoms to watch out for.

Don’t do ‘carrier bags’, kids. (TikTok/@tombirchy)

“I was 22 years old working in a high stress job in the music industry, and I was using carrier bags,” he explained, and at this point we should say that ‘carrier bags’ is TikTok slang for something else that I’m sure you can hazard a guess about.

“Too much, twice or three times a week, but it fit into the party lifestyle ‘oh music industry I’m so cool’.

“I woke up one morning and my arms felt tight, the back of my elbow especially was numb. It went down my arms and I was banging them on the sofa and I couldn’t be comfortable sitting up, lying down or standing up, and so I called the ambulance.

“The ambulance came and they said ‘oh, you’re not having a heart attack, we’ll take you to hospital anyway’.”

Tom said that when he got to the hospital they took some blood samples and once they got the result back they quickly injected him with something to stop his blood from clotting.

The 22-year-old spent a week in hospital hooked up to machines and he was ‘so lucky my heart was not severely damaged’.

Chest pains are the most common symptom of a heart attack. (Getty Stock Photo)

In the end, it had turned out to be a heart attack he’d suffered, and he felt a ‘pressure on your chest and in your arms’ as well as getting a ‘fear of impending doom’ where he felt like he was going to die.

Describing the ordeal as ‘truly a terrifying experience’, he urged people to understand they were ‘not invincible’ and ‘not gonna live forever’.

He said: “If smashing the carrier bags every week end you think is a great idea, all it takes is one day for that to happen to you and you might not be as lucky as me.”

According to the NHS some of the symptoms of a heart attack are chest pain, including feelings of tightness, heaviness, squeezing or pressure across your chest.

There may also be a feeling that the pain is spreading to other parts of your body, while you may also feel sick or lightheaded.

You might also experience ‘an overwhelming feeling of anxiety’ like you’re having a panic attack, symptoms will vary from person to person but chest pain is the most common sign.

If you think you’re having a heart attack, the advice is to call an ambulance and then if you have it, slowly chew a tablet of aspirin before swallowing it.

Experts believe as many as 17,000 people in the UK who inject steroids are at risk of having a little spoken about virus.

You may not realise, but a lot more people around you take steroids then you think. Catch NHS sexual health consultant and Medical Director at Preventx Dr John White explaining how to test for the virus here:

Whether it be an influencer you follow on social media, someone who goes to the same gym or even a friend, around 357,600 people in the UK are believed to inject steroids, new research provided exclusively to LADbible has revealed.

And this could be the lower end of the estimation too, with UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) reporting that over one million people in the country are believed to be using steroids – usually for image and performance enhancing purposes in sport and fitness – categorising it as a ‘serious public health issue’.

The dangers of steroid use have been publicly addressed by several gym-goers and bodybuilders, however, there’s one virus which can be picked up by injecting steroids which isn’t spoken about enough – Hepatitis C.

Those who inject steroids could be at risk of having Hepatitis C (CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

While both men and women are known to use steroids, studies show the issue is more prevalent in men and what’s more, 63 percent of men have ‘limited or no knowledge’ of Hepatitis C – a virus that can infect the liver and if left untreated ‘can sometimes cause serious and potentially life-threatening damage to the liver over many years,’ the NHS states.

59 percent of men have limited or no knowledge of how hepatitis C is spread or contracted and with a name similar to that of various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), some hold the misconception that one of the main ways to contract the virus is via unprotected sex, however, this is far from the case.

Pexels/ Cottonbro studio

While hepatitis C can be sexually transmitted, the NHS says this is ‘very rare’ – the virus more often spread through ‘sharing unsterilised needles, sharing razors or toothbrushes [and] from a pregnant woman to her unborn baby’.

The NHS also adds: “In the UK, most hepatitis C infections happen in people who inject drugs or have injected them in the past.

“It’s estimated around half of those who inject drugs have been infected with the virus.”

This includes the injecting of steroids – anabolic steroids the specific type ‘used as performance-enhancing drugs that increase muscle mass and decrease fat’.

And new research has revealed people who inject steroids are 10 times more likely to have hepatitis C, and there are currently 17,000 people in the UK who inject steroids who are at risk of having the virus.

What’s more, 34 percent of gym-goers in the UK are reported as being aware of people who attend their gym or club using steroids and the virus doesn’t always have any ‘noticeable symptoms until the liver has been significantly damaged’ – with 73 percent of men not being aware of this.

But how do you go about getting tested if you’re not sure?

Pexels/ Marcus Chan

Well, symptoms to look out for include flu-like symptoms – high temperature and muscle aches, stomach ache, feeling sick or actually throwing up, not feeling hungry anymore and feeling tired all the time.

However, the only way to know for sure is to get tested.

If the virus is left untreated for ‘many years’ you could end up at risk of developing cirrhosis – scarring of the liver caused by long-term liver damage – or even liver failure or cancer in ‘severe cases’.

Thankfully, Hepatitis C is treatable. If diagnosed, you’ll be given medicines in the form of tablets which need to be taken for ‘several weeks’ to stop the virus multiplying.

Using the medication, over 90 percent of people with the virus ‘may be cured’.

If you inject steroids or have done in the past and are worried, you can get a free at-home testing kit for hepatitis C through the NHS.