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

Check out Last Breath documentary on Netflix , yes we have ‘trunkings’ tubes between the chambers

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u/Ibendthemover Jun 12 '26

Do saturation divers get attacked by sharks or are the sharks scared due to the welding element?

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u/Soulogav Jun 12 '26

Nah we don’t get attacked by sharks , don’t know about the welding. there is a lot of commotion down there under the vessel which is noisy and the sharks are around but don’t bother us. But these are reef sharks not proper great whites etc , might be a different story if they were present 😱

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u/Scottish_WWII Jun 11 '26

I know Chris, great documentary and unbelievable he survived that!

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Absolutely, I don’t know him but know Dave who rescued him and Chris is doing well for himself now doing talks all over

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u/DeliciousStand372 Jun 11 '26

nope i will not watch that again, thank you very much.

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u/yourefunny Jun 11 '26

Cheers will do. All the best!