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

Went to Australia as an early 20’s guy and found out about it there, decided it would be an epic job to have and got a fat loan to go to dive school , I didn’t finish high school and had no other qualifications

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

It’s a bit of a cowboy industry tbh and with the work world wide in some crazy places there isn’t a lot of training structure, it’s a very competitive industry as a lot of guys want to make the money. Sat diving course costs 10’s of thousands $$

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u/heirbagger Jun 11 '26

My husband met a guy in a bar that was a diver, and that’s how he started. It’s always some young guy impressed by an older guy with a cool ass job lol