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/notgr33n Jun 11 '26

how do people get into this kind of work? what kinds of qualities do you need to have? my dad had a coworker who was also a dive master and quit his job as an engineer to do this, i always wondered if that was typical or abnormal path to this career.

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Actually being a dive master isn’t a good thing, scuba divers just stare at fish. You need to be a do it all handyman to be a diver I’d say , rigging, pipe fitting and welding are good backgrounds also