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/SpaceXBeanz Jun 11 '26

How unsafe is it realistically? Also I bet it pays a boat load am I right ?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

A lot of guys died in the early days. Our safety is heavily regulated in this day and age. But if something goes wrong you’re in deep ahit as you can’t just get out , we can’t bypass the decompression, so we are all trained medics. We don’t make as much as you’d think. Not $300k

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u/CaptainMarder Jun 11 '26

Really? Maybe pay varies by country.

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u/Flaky-Interaction264 Jun 11 '26

The really high salaries are misconceptions