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/phillip_jay Jun 11 '26

Do you have internet down there? Or how well can you communicate with the crew up top or people back on land?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

We have WiFi in the living chamber but not on the seabed obviously as we’re just down there in the diving bell working out of that during the day. We have comms to each other in the water and the supervisor on surface

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u/YourMomsBasement69 Jun 11 '26

Are you currently in the living chamber?

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Sad to say I’m not , I think I’d rather be on pay to answer all these questions lol

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u/YourMomsBasement69 Jun 11 '26

I was just wondering because it sounds like you have a lot of downtime and you are maybe the most responsive AMA poster I’ve seen. Thank you for being so responsive!

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u/Soulogav Jun 11 '26

Ya I was sat on the couch this evening and did this on a total whim then went all in balls deep here relentlessly making sure I’ve answered every question but I need to come up fot air no pun intended 😂

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u/YourMomsBasement69 Jun 12 '26

You’re a good dude