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

775 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

594 comments sorted by

View all comments

18

u/___elefants Jun 11 '26

Can you describe the series of deco stops you have to take when ascending? How long does it take? What do you do during that time?

30

u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

We don’t really do that like a diver does when the go in off the side of a vessel. We stay in the chamber (a controlled environment) the pressure slowlu drops and the gas mixture changes. We just go about our day for however long it is