Hark the helium divers sing: Christmas message from deep sea crew

STV

Three offshore divers are having some festive fun to make up for the fact they will not make it home for Christmas.

Saturation divers Andy Taylor, Scott Baldwin and Willy Gourlay are stuck in a decompression chamber for the next three days after doing a 120m dive in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.

The trio are not yet about to breath air and are being supplied with a mixture of helium and oxygen.

Injecting some festive fun into their isolation, they have recorded a special Christmas message from their chamber.

In an email to STV News, the divers said: "We have to breathe a helium/oxygen mix and the deeper we go the more ridiculous our voices become.

"We finished our last dive of this trip at 9am on Wednesday morning and have just over three days of decompression left between us and fresh air. As a result myself, Scott and our team-mate Willy, a Scotsman are going to be away from our families for Christmas."

The team say they also do requests.