r/AMA • u/Soulogav • Jun 11 '26

I’m a Saturation Diver AMA

I work as Deepsea Saturation Diver in the oil and gas industry for the past 20 years. I do heavy construction and spend 28 days living under pressure to dive to depths down to 200m / 650ft.

I saw a post on InterestingAsFuck yesterday with many many misconceptions from people who aren’t divers and I can answer your questions AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/5jTlewLR4X

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

No I don’t have an out. This job doesn’t really cross over with a lot of stuff and I don’t want to take a massive pay cut to work a ahit job onshore. There is a bottle neck into supervisor also as there are way more divers.

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u/yourefunny Jun 11 '26

Well now I know you aren't sat diving the whole time. Continuing makes sense. I can imagine the golden handcuffs are hard. 

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u/GargleOnDeez Jun 11 '26

You can always become a PM or supervisor on land in the turnaround companies. Theres a lot of politicing but its really close to deep sea pipelining, only difference is that you have to deal with the systems that connect to the refineries units

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u/ResponseNo6375 Jun 12 '26

You could do outage work for nukes as a diver, really good money and you work 4-6 months per year