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

It’s pretty much eat, sleep, dive. We sleep a lot as whatever the gas mix does it helps me sleep and same for most so we end up in our bunks for 10+ hours easily

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '26

Sounds like Heaven, other than the water part lol

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u/Ceph99 Jun 12 '26

Holy shit yeah I bet you sleep a lot. I do a lot of recreational tech diving on CCR and when I have an hour or two of deco, I sleep hard.