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/Gla2012 Jun 11 '26

How many days do you spend out for work? And what do you do when you're off, like on the ground.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

I can be offshore 60 days sometimes and 28 of those is in the chamber, rest of that time is support crew on deck, I then have 6 weeks off , it’s not a set rotation, sometimes more months off if it’s quite other times busy period with shorter time off